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Author Biography

Mark Wise is the John A. McCone Professor of High Energy Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is the winner of the 2001 J.J. Sakurai Prize of the American Physical Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and National Academy of Sciences. He is also the coauthor of Heavy Quark Physics. Vineer Bhansali is an executive vice president, portfolio manager, firm-wide head of analytics for portfolio management, and a senior member of PIMCO's portfolio management team. He is the author of Pricing and Managing Exotic and Hybrid Options and currently serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance.