The LSE Directory / Quant researchers
Roman Michael Paolucci is an American quantitative researcher and educator, and the founder and lead instructor of Quant Guild, an online quant-finance education platform that he says has trained 20,000+ students. He graduated summa cum laude from James Madison University with a double major in Quantitative Finance and Mathematics, pursued graduate study in Operations Research at Columbia University, and states he worked as a quant on Bruno Dupire's quantitative research team at Bloomberg on exotic derivative pricing with neural networks and generative machine learning for volatility surfaces. His YouTube channel (87.9K subscribers and 643 videos as of July 2026) pairs graduate-level lectures on stochastic calculus, derivative pricing, market making, and numerical methods with open Jupyter notebooks, and he maintains the open-source Q-Fin Python library for mathematical finance. He also built side projects including Gaussian Cookbook, Practice Market Making, Byte Potion, and discourses.io, and has co-authored academic work including a paper on using social-media emojis to predict stock returns.
