Abdullah Karasan

Abdullah Karasan was born in Berlin, Germany. After studying economics and business administration, he obtained his master's degree in applied economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his PhD in financial mathematics from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. He is a former Treasury employee of Turkey and currently works as a principal data scientist at Magnimind and as a lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He has also published several papers in the field of financial data science.

projects by Abdullah Karasan

Linear Regression for Asset Pricing
2 weeks · 8-10 hours per week average · BEGINNER
Included with a Manning Online subscription
catalog / Data Science / Machine Learning / Machine Learning Algorithms

Linear regression is one of the most straightforward approaches to making price predictions and financial forecasts. In this series of liveProjects, you’ll step into the role of a machine learning engineer at InvRes Bank, a bank that offers financial consulting services to its customers. To better serve your clients, you'll develop regression-based Python machine learning models for financial modeling and asset pricing. You’ll update the classic financial algorithms Capital Asset Pricing Theorem (CAPM) and Arbitrage Pricing Theorem (APT) to new automatic machine learning models and improve your understanding of financial data science. These skills are in high demand for portfolio optimization and financial services.