Department of Decision Sciences

Dr MM Mpanda

College of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Economic and Financial Sciences
Department: Decision Sciences
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 433 4716
E-mail: mpandmm@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) (UNILU)
  • MSc (UNISA)
  • PhD (UNISA)

Professional Qualification

  • Quantitative Finance (CQF, Fitch Learning)

Currently teaching

  • Linear Mathematical Programming
  • Financial Modelling I

Fields of academic interests

  • Stochastic volatility modelling
  • Financial machine learning
  • Interest rate modelling
  • Robust portfolio optimisation
  • Malliavin Calculus in Quantitative Finance

Field of Specialisation

  • Fractional Volatility Modelling

Journal articles

  • Mukeru, S., Mulaudzi, M.P., Nzabanita, J. and Mpanda, M.M., 2021. Zeros of Gaussian power series with dependent random variables. Illinois Journal of Mathematics64(4), pp.569-582.
  • Mpanda, M.M., Mukeru, S. and Mulaudzi, M., 2022. Generalisation of fractional Cox–Ingersoll–Ross process. Results in Applied Mathematics15, p.100322.
  • Mpanda, M.M., 2022. Malliavin differentiability of fractional Heston-type model and applications to option pricing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10709.
  • Mpanda, M.M., Mukeru, S. & Mulaudzi, M.P. (2022, June 14). Generalised Fractional Cox-Ingersoll-Ross process. Paper presented at the 11th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Hong Kong, China, page 252.

Projects

Research Projects

  • Time-dependent fractional volatility modelling.
  • Calibration in fractional volatility modelling with machine learning techniques.
  • Malliavin Calculus in financial modelling.