Dr. Jevgeni Bovatov is a seasoned quantitative finance professional with over 20 years of experience in options trading, market making, and the development of systematic alpha strategies across global financial markets. He currently serves as Head of Options at GSR Capital, where he leads systematic proprietary trading and market making of BTC and ETH options across top crypto exchanges. Previously, Dr. Bovatov held senior roles at JP Morgan, GSA Capital Partners, BlueCrest Capital Management, and Lucid Markets. His expertise spans equity indices, single stock, FX, and ETF options, with a strong focus on developing pricing libraries, implied volatility surface modeling, backtesting infrastructure, and risk management systems. At JP Morgan, he led a team of quant traders and spearheaded innovations in volatility arbitrage and client execution strategies. Holding a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition from Frankfurt University and the Weizmann Institute, Dr. Bovatov combines deep academic knowledge with practical financial engineering. He is proficient in multiple programming languages including C++, Python, Rust, and MATLAB, and has published research in both machine learning and quantitative finance.