BSQ Research was founded by DR DEBASHIS GUHA, an AI engineer who has spent more than 25 years researching Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and their application to problems in financial, e-commerce, and service industry settings. Dr Guha is also one of the world’s leading experts on macroeconomic forecasting. He has published numerous papers in leading journals and conferences.
Dr Guha has served as Head of Risk and Quantitative Research at a global macro hedge fund in California (300MM assets), where he pioneered the use of AI techniques for investment management. He has also designed and deployed data warehouse and visualization applications for a sales CRM, a business analytics tool for anomaly detection, and a deep learning based recommendation system.
His past clients have included the Government of Spain, the central banks of Indonesia, Mexico, and Jordan, DuPont, Caterpillar, start-up companies in Silicon Valley and Singapore, and a well-known Indian software services firm.
Dr Guha is also a Professor at the S P Jain School of Global Management, an Australian business school, where he directs a Master’s program in AI, and heads a Technology Research Centre. He has previously taught at Columbia University, The University of Texas at Dallas, and Texas Christian University.
Debashis Guha earned a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University, an MA in Physics from Texas Christian University, and a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.