Dr. Svetlozar Todrov Rachev

Svetlozar (Zari) Todorov Rachev is a Bulgarian mathematician who works in mathematical finance, probability theory, and statistics. He is known for his work in probability metrics, derivative pricing, financial risk modeling, and econometrics. In the practice of risk management, he is the originator of the methodology behind the flagship product of FinAnalytica.

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Svetlozar (Zari) Todorov Rachev

Life and Work

Rachev earned a MSc degree from the Faculty of Mathematics at Sofia University in 1974, a Ph.D. degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University under the supervision of Vladimir Zolotarev in 1979, and a Dr. Sci degree from Steklov Mathematical Institute in 1986 under the supervision of Leonid Kantorovich, a Nobel Prize winner in economic sciences, Andrey Kolmogorov and Yuri Prokhorov. Currently, he is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California Santa Barbara and a professor of mathematics at Texas Tech University.

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Ph.D. Students of Svetlozar Rachev

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  • Prachi Chaturvedi (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Bessy Athanasopoulos (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Bertrand Gamrowski (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
  • Thomas Kozubowski (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Anna Panorska (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Benny Cheng (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Chufang Wu (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Vera Haynatzka (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Seonkoo Han (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Norbert Schumacher (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Irina Khindanova (UCSB, Departments of Economics)
  • Yesim Tokat (UCSB, Departments of Economics)
  • Biliana Bagasheva (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Anna Chernobai (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Alex Vollert (University of Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Christian Peter (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Lorena Vinueza (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering) ì
  • Stefan Trueck (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Christian Menn (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Stefan Woerner (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Dylan D’Souza (UCSB, Departments of Economics)
  • Stoyan Stoyanov (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Wei Sun (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Sebastian Kring (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Markus.Hoechstoetter (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Michael Grebeck (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Jorge Hernandez (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Carlo Marinelli (Columbia University, Department of Statistics)
  • Teo Jašić (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Dezhong Wang (UCSB, Departments of Statistics and Applied Probability)
  • Sergio Focardi (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Anna Serbinenko (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Christoph Moeller (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Jan Fraenkle (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Christian Diekmann (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Michael Stein (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Christian Scherrer-Montbrun (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business
    Engineering)
  • Thomas Meinl (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Scherer, Matthias (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Michele Leonardo Bianchi (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Rezania, Omid (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Aktan, Sinan (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Beck, Alexander (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Krause, Drik (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Nazemi, Abdolreza (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Papenbrock, Jochen (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Pieper, Michael (Karlsruhe, School of Economics and Business Engineering)
  • Xiaochu Zhang (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Xiaoping Zhou (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Tetsuo Kurosaki (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Barret Shao (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Naoshi Tsuchida (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Angela Tsao (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Yikang Chai (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Tianyu Lu (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Yuzhong Zhang (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Hua Mo (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Xiang Shi (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Po-Keng Cheng (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Fangfei Dong (Stony Brook University, Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics)
  • Abootaleb Shirvani (Texas Tech University, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics)
  • Yuan Hu (Texas Tech University, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics)

Postdoctoral Students of Svetlozar Rachev

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  • Dr. Young Shin Kim (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, School of Business and Economics)
  • Dr. Jiho Park (Texas Tech University, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics)
  • Dr. Davide Lauria (Texas Tech University, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics)

Contact Dr. Svetlozar (Zari) Todorov Rachev

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[email protected]

Phone Number

(806) 742-2566

Office

Texas Tech University
1108 Memorial Circle
Lubbock, TX 79409

Office Hours

8 AM - 5 PM