Possible interview questions with VPs in top quant fund?

I am interviewing onsite virtually soon with a top quant fund that you most certainly have heard of. Part of this will entail (non-coding) interviews with VPs of the fund, one of which was a math professor at Harvard/MIT/Princeton. 

I don't have much finance experience but have more experience in data science/computer science, and I am quite intimidated by just the thought of what kind of questions they might ask me. Does anyone have any idea about the potential topics of discussion? I can't imagine it's strictly behavioral, given their background...

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