Shantanu Sharma

Shantanu "Shanta" Sharma, Ph.D. (NMLS#1677482) is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs.

During 2017 to 2023, Shanta served via STEM Lending, a mortgage shopping service. (NMLS#1648699)

Prior to that, Shanta held roles of CTO at Six Deg Inc. dba Yellowdig, VP at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and of a Lead Scientist at GE Global Research. He was an early employee at Mismi, a TL Ventures funded FinTech tech start-up, and a Quantitative Strategist at Tower Research Capital.

Shanta has taught courses to graduate and undergraduate level students and published over a dozen research articles having hundreds of citations in peer-reviewed journals and won multiple awards for his work.

Shanta earned a BTech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and a PhD in Biochemistry with emphasis on Computational Biophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shanta's motivation is to significantly increase healthy life expectancies.