Professor Sanjay Srivastava is Carnegie Mellon's Alumni Professor of Economics and Finance in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration. He is director of GSIA's Center for Financial Analysis and Securities Trading (FAST) Program, a research and teaching program. The FAST Trading Room replicates the environment of Wall Street's top trading firms, with state-of-the-art computer workstations, live international data feeds, and advanced analytical and trading software. The program is currently in operation in 20 countries, including the United States, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Australia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom and Russia. The Smithsonian Institution's Archive of American History has even made the progressive work of the FAST Lab part of its permanent research collection on innovative information technology.

Professor Srivastava is a co-author of the 3-volume text, Investments: A Visual Approach. He was co-founder and is a steering committee member of the university's highly regarded Computational Finance Program--an --> --interdisciplinary program of GSIA, the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Mellon College of Science.

His research interests include the design of financial contracts, the organization of financial markets, and experimental studies of asset markets. In addition to Carnegie Mellon, he has taught at the California Institute of Technology, ITESM in Mexico and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan.

Professor Srivastava earned his B.A. in Economics at Warwick University in the United Kingdom and his Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.