Jayanta K Pokharel

Dr. Jayanta Pokharel, an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics and Actuarial Science recently joined the Department of Business Analytics and Actuarial Science at Siena College School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics with concentration in Statistics from the University of South Florida and MS in Finance from the University of Tampa, USA. He also holds an MBA from Ace Institute of Management and BS in Physics from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. His research focuses on real data-driven analytical predictive modeling, stochastic intensity function and monitoring indicators of natural phenomenon, statistical inference and probability distributions, operations management and optimization, and machine learning. He enjoys teaching predictive analytics, quantitative business, operations management, and MIS. Dr. Pokharel is a passionate educator and brings an experience of having managed, led, and nurtured enterprises, especially, in the field of business education in Nepal. He is a firm believer of research-based-education to relish, foster and nurture a culture where faculty and staff embody what we aspire our students to become: self-regulated lifelong learners and responsible and contributing members of our society and the world.

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• Analytical Predictive Modeling: Impact of Financial and Economic Indicators on Stock
  Journal of Mathematical Finance, vol. 12
  November, 2022

Awards & Distinctions

• Fred L. and Helen M. Tharp Award
  Category: Teaching-Research
  University of South Florida, USA, 2023
• AMS Sectional Meeting Travel Grant
  Category: Research
  American Mathematical Society, 2022
• Tharp Endowed Scholarship for the year 2022 & 2021.
  Category: Student
  University of South Florida, USA, 2022
• UT David Delo Research Grant (RISE) for the year 2018 & 2017.
  Category: Student
  The University of Tampa, USA, 2018

Presentations

• Modeling Stock Returns With Laplace Family Distributions- A Concise Decision
  2024
  Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, United States of America
• Scouting the Choice of Laplace Family Probability Distributions to Facilitate Stock Returns Modeling
  May, 2023
  Third International Conference on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences (ANMS-2023), Pokhara, Nepal
• A Mathematical Driven Optimization Method in Finance Problem Based on Desirability Function
  2022
  MAA 44th Florida Suncoast Region Meeting, Lakeland, FL, United States of America
• A Real Data-Driven Analytical Model to Predict Information Technology Sector Index Price of S&P 500
  2022
  AMS 2022 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meetings, Chattanoga, TN, United States of America