About

Ankur A. is an Associate at BlackRock, where he works as an Application Engineer and Engineer II in the Security Modeling Team of the Financial Modeling Group. His team is responsible for researching and modeling CMBS securities, commercial whole loans, and commercial real estate valuation models. Ankur's expertise lies in financial modeling, econometric modeling, risk management, machine learning, Python, C++, and R. Ankur has interned as a Software Developer at R&D Center, Nippon Koei Co. Ltd., Japan, where he worked on various machine learning and computer vision projects. He also interned as a Decision Science Analyst at Quantiphi Analytics Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, where he utilized AttnGAN to create a machine learning model that could generate photo-realistic images based on natural language text input. Ankur completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur from 2014 to 2019. He holds a Master's degree and a Bachelor of Technology degree in computer science and engineering. With 3.27 years of relevant experience, Ankur is a skilled research scientist and software engineer with expertise in ML, computer vision, Python, and big data. He has been actively involved in the development of valuation and risk models for CRE properties and loans, making him an asset to BlackRock's Financial Modeling Group.