Rama Cont

Statutory Professor of Mathematics · www.maths.ox.ac.uk · University of Oxford

Quick answer: Rama Cont is Statutory Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford. Rama Cont shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.

⭐ For PhD applicants: Please note due to the high number of applications I am unable to meet/exchange individually with all applicants. We do not process PhD applications via email. Please apply through Oxford's online Graduate Applications portal: see here or here.

Research interests

Pathwise methods in stochastic analysis. Rough analysis. Functional Ito calculus. Mathematical modeling in finance. Systemic Risk and financial stability. Mathematical foundations of Data Science. Data-driven decision systems.

Selected publications (since 2023)

R Cont, FangRui Lim (2026) Causal transport on path space. Annals of Probability. R Cont, R Jin (2024) Fractional Ito Calculus. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. R Cont, P Das (2024) Rough volatility: fact or artefact? Sankhya B, Volume 86. R Cont, W Xiong (2024) Dynamics of market making algorithms in dealer markets: Learning and tacit collusion, Mathematical Finance. H Chiu, R Cont (2023) A model-free approach to continuous-time finance, Mathematical Finance. R Cont, P Das (2023) Quadratic variation and quadratic roughness, Bernoulli, 29:496-522.

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