I have spent several years in the financial services industry which some of my colleagues refer to as "the dark side." I continue to maintain industry contacts and work with a number of businesses, helping them to define their IT and data strategy. The specific areas in which I work are:

Predictive modeling in financial markets: some of my trading strategies are in use. Sometimes they work better than at other times. I am (or rather my computer program is) always predicting what will happen tomorrow in the financial markets. Looks like I've been correct 61% of the time on a monthly basis since May 2002! Is that better than random?

Customer modeling: I have done extensive modeling in a number of areas including predicting customer attrition, customer response to price increases and incentives, cross selling, and salesforce profiling and management.

Professor
Head of Information Systems
Stern School of Business
New York University
44 West Fourth Street
KMC 8-97
New York, NY 10012
phone: 212.998.0816
fax: 212.995.4228
email: vdhar@stern.nyu.edu