Ali Ghalandari, Ph.D. Email and Phone Number

Responsibilities My responsibilities include but are not limited to:• Hypothesis development• Literature review• Data cleaning, Data visualization, and Data gathering using python and selenium• Data analysis using statistical models, econometrics, and empirical Inference.Conduct research papers on Financial Market, investment, and trading behaviors. • School Closures, Busy Parents, and Distracted Retail Investors: Effect of COVID-19• Does the Mad Money Show Cause Investors to Go Madly Attentive?• Sentiment Analysis and insider trading Analyze large scale firm level financial, accounting data and alternative data• Databases: Bloomberg, CRSP, COMPUSTAT, Thomson Reuters, Factset, FINRA• Alternative Data: Bloomberg (attention, sentiment and readership), Refinitiv (Sentiment), SafeGraph (Geolocations), and Textual analysis on Financial statements (SEC EDGAR), Social Media (Twitter and StockTwits) and news media (FACTSET)Replicate numerous empirical papers using Python, SAS and STATA.

Working in a planning and research department, my responsibilities were conducting reports for managerial decisions and supporting the sale department. Here are my main responsibilities:• Making analytic reports regarding the company’s products and markets • Providing Market and product outlook report to support strategic planning of the company• Tracking the company’s Key Performance Indicators through weekly and monthly reports

As a part of portfolio management team, my main responsibility is to make different reports to the managers. Here are the lists of my responsibilities:• Monitoring daily economics news, which affects companies in Tehran Stock Market• Conduction fundamental analysis of the requested company• Conducting Industry report• Making performance report regarding Company's different funds and portfolios

Starting my work here as an Intern and continuing to work as a part of portfolio management, I learned different aspects of the stock market, by working as a trader and Equity Research Analyst.