# Professor Vasant Dhar is highlighted as one of the 20 top data scientists in banking and finance by eFinancialCareers

1 Faculty News March 9, 2017 ![eFinancialCareers logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/efinancialcareers.jpg?itok=ZA-JtoIo)>

Excerpt from [eFinancialCareers](http://news.efinancialcareers.com/uk-en/276513/top-data-scientists-banks-and-hedge-funds/) -- "A director in the PhD program in data science at NYU, [Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) is also an entrepreneur in the field of finance. He founded SCT Capital Management, a hedge fund based on predictive models in 1998 and co-founded Deep Blue Analytics, a consulting company that applies data analysis to commercial problems in 2012."

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