Yojna Purohit

Yojna Purohit, PhD, is an experienced professional in market and credit risk model development, currently serving as Vice President at Banco Santander since 2015, specializing in Fixed Income and Interest Rate Risk, prepayment and default modeling, and econometric modeling. Prior experience includes roles at SAS focusing on multifactor modeling for hedge funds, and BB&T as a quantitative analyst, along with contributions at J.P. Morgan in model risk and development. Yojna's academic background includes a PhD in Computational Materials Engineering from North Carolina State University, an MS in Financial Engineering from City University of New York-Baruch College, and a master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.