§1About me
I'm Amir Mohammad Baram, Amir M. Baram for short, and I came to finance from industrial engineering. After a bachelor's at Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, and close to five years as a freelance financial-market analyst, I started an MSc in Finance at Khatam University in 2024.
My work sits where finance meets machine learning: forecasting crypto prices from the whole market around them — spot, futures and options — and treating a forecast as an input to a decision, with risk management on top. I care most about derivatives and options markets, hedging, portfolio optimization, and models that are tested honestly on data they have not seen.
I also like the practical side of the field. I spent several years as an expert at the technology incubator of Noshirvani University, and I take part in the quant community — most recently the Quant Circle meetup at Sharif University of Technology on hedging physical oil and energy trades.
§2Research
Forecasting Bitcoin and Ethereum prices with a Transformer model. The model reads several markets at once — spot, futures and options — rather than the price history alone.
- Quantitative finance
- Derivatives & options markets
- Risk management & hedging
- Portfolio optimization
- Machine learning for time series
- Crypto markets
- Energy markets
§3Experience
Incubator expert
Financial market analyst
Community
§4Education
MSc Finance
BSc Industrial Engineering
§5Skills
- Python
- Machine learning
- Risk management
- Portfolio optimization
- EViews
- LaTeX
- Persian — native
- English — professional working proficiency
§6Contact & elsewhere
Write to me at theamirbaram@gmail.com or send a message on LinkedIn.