Chander Kochar

Chander Kochar is a Senior Manager in Quantitative Analysis at Capital One, with a focus on stress testing and modeling analytics since August 2016. In this role, Chander leads teams through regulatory cycles, collaborates with modeling teams to align objectives with use cases, and has developed loss forecasting models addressing macroeconomic impacts during COVID. Previously, Chander managed the development of next-generation account-level loss models and set up monitoring frameworks, while also playing a pivotal role in transitioning legacy infrastructure to open-source platforms. Chander's earlier career includes an internship at KEMA and extensive academic credentials, including a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Iowa and two master's degrees in Applied Economics and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona.