Piyush Pandey is an Assistant Professor of Finance in Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay and Associate faculty at Centre for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS) at IIT Bombay. He is Ph.D. in Finance from Delhi University. He has corporate experience of 2 years in UBS ISC in Equity Research and Fixed Income Structuring roles. His research interests lie in investment management and financial derivatives. He has worked as Principal Investigator on major research project sponsored by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, GOI on "Decision support system to predict bankruptcy for Indian (M)SMEs using Statistical and Artificial Intelligent Techniques". He has published a research monograph titled "Economic and Financial Integration in South Asia: A Contemporary Perspective" with his co-authors in Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.