Students

Current Doctoral Students:

Ruizhe Jia. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

Thesis: Blockchain Economics, DeFi, Asset Tokenization

Former Doctoral and Visiting Students:

Felix Corell, Ph.D. 2022, Department of Economics, European Economic Institute

Job Market Paper: Optimal Bailouts and the Doom Loop with a Financial Network?

First Position: Assistant Professor of Finance, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Humoud Alsabah, Ph.D. 2020, Industrial Engineering, Columbia University

Thesis: Essay in Financial Technology and Networked Markets

First Position: Assistant Professor, Kuwait University, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering

Allen Cheng, Ph.D. 2017, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

Thesis: Clearinghouse Default Resources: Theory and Empirical Analysis

First Position: Research Associate, AQR Capital Management

Peng Chu Chen, Ph.D. 2016, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University

Thesis: Systemic Risk in Financial Networks

First Position: Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists:

Zhaoyu Zhang. Data Driven Algorithms for Risk Preference Estimation

Sveinn Olafsson. Project: Personalized Robo-Advising

Benjamin Bernard. Project: Bail-in and Bailout Policies in Financial Networks.

Hongzhong Zhang. Project: Market Microstructure, Competition, and Inventory Costs

Matt Stern. Project: Human-Machine Interaction Systems with Applications to Robo-Advising

Marko Weber Projects: Liquidity Management and Strategic Portfolio Systemic Allocations