Samudra Dasgupta obtained his B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur 2006, followed by M.S. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Harvard 2008 and an M.B.A. from Indian School of Business 2012; He has over 10 years of work experience in various financial organizations indifferent capacities, including in Goldman Sachs (Vice President, Liquidity Risk Management), McKinsey and Company, (Engagement Manager, Banking and Finance), Bank of America (Assistant Vice President, Corporate Investments Group) and Higher Moment Capital (Research Analyst at Quant Hedge Fund). He is currently an entering Ph.D. candidate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Quantum Computing Institute and the Bredesen Center University of Tennessee-Knoxville and during the past year, he has also been a Research Associate with Purdue University and ORNL. His current research interest is on the applications of quantum algorithms and NISQ in the prediction and mitigation of financial problems.