Brian Boonstra is a quantitative researcher based in Chicago and has been teaching at the graduate level since 1996. His professional experience includes serving as a senior chief quantitative researcher at esteemed firms such as Jump Trading, Cognitive Capital, UBS O'Connor, Delaware Street Capital, and JPMorgan Helios. Furthermore, he managed Thureos Capital, a hedge fund dedicated to equity and credit arbitrage utilizing contingent claims models. Alongside his teaching responsibilities at the Booth School of Business, Boonstra also instructs Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago. His research interests encompass numerical analysis, contingent claims pricing models, and statistical learning. Boonstra holds an S.B. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Complex Analysis from the University of Michigan.