I am delighted to announce that the recipient of the Director’s List for spring 2018 is Michael Ang. In the classroom and beyond, he has consistently demonstrated outstanding academic excellence, great program citizenship, and high degree of professionalism. Michael Ang (’18) Michael holds a B.A. in Mathematics from…
We welcome our new full-time, part-time and non-degree students! The photo above is from a third semester full-time student lead panel discussion on careers in the financial industry for our new students. Penghao Chen, Xaio Guan, Michael Ang, Yining Cheng, and Zhaohua Yang (from left to right) share their internship experiences…
I am very excited to announce the new full-semester elective course “Counterparty Credit: Valuation and Adjustments, Capital, and Funding” (MATH-GA 2805.001) that will be taught by Leif Andersen on Wednesdays 7:10pm-9pm, starting in September 2018. There is high demand in the financial industry for quants equipped with the knowledge of…
I am delighted to announce that the recipients of the Program Director’s List for fall 2017 are Oksana Kitaychik, Kaili (Kelly) Li, and Yucheng (Joseph) Wang. In the classroom and beyond, they have consistently demonstrated outstanding academic excellence, great program citizenship, and high degree of professionalism. Oksana Kitaychik…
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We are thrilled to announce that Leif Andersen, BAML and Industry Adviser to our program, was one of the three recipients of Risk’s Quant of the Year 2018 award. Together with Michael Pykhtin (Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC) and Alexander Sokol (CEO of CompatibL), they created a model…
Aaron Brown, adjunt professor in our program, talks about bitcoin and the debut of bitcoin futures on Bloomberg TV. See the interview here.
Petter Kolm and Gordon Ritter published a paper on a very general Black-Litterman model. They clarify the duality between Black-Litterman optimization and Bayesian regression. They show that this generalization is itself a special case of a Bayesian network or graphical model. As an example, they provide a full detailed treatment…
This is a unique interview on interest rates and models with Professor Fabio Mercurio.
I am delighted to announce that the recipient of the Program Director’s List for the spring 2017 is Xinyu (Susan) Fan. After completing her B.S. in Finance, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Susan joined the program in September 2016. Susan has excelled both academically…