Research Team

Current Doctoral Students:
Xinkai Wu. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: Endogenous Financial Networks

Millend Roy. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: Capacity Pricing in Energy Markets

Jose Antonio Sidaoui Gali. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: Asset Pricing, Graph Based Neural Networks, and Diffusion Manifolds

Boxuan Li.  Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: Competition and strategic Interactions in networked markets

Felipe Verastegui-Grunewald. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: The interactions between energy and climate risk

Brian Zi Qi Zhu. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Research Topic: Liquidity and Market Design of Decentralized Platforms.
Former Doctoral and Visiting Students:
Ruizhe Jia, Ph.D. 2024. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. Thesis: The Market Microstructure of Decentralized Exchanges. 

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 and Operations Research, 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:
Zhaonan Qu, July 2024-present. Project: Bias-Variance Tradeoff, Poisson regressions, Heteroscedasticity and Measurement Noise

Jiacheng Zou, August 2024-present. Project:  Asset Pricing with Network Effects.

Shihao Yu, June 2022-June 2023. Project: Microstructure of Exchanges and Machine Learning in Finance. First Position. Assistant Professor of Finance, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University.

Mihailo Stojnic, August 2022 - December 2022, Projects: Matrix Completion and Portfolio Econometrics

Bo Yang, April 2022-June 2024. Project: Virtual Bidding and Economics of Power Grids (joint with G. Iyengar and D. Bienstock). First Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Khalil Esmkhani, January-July 2023, Project: Supply Chain Blockchain and Information Networks. First Position: Assistant Professor of Finance, Simon Fraser University

Michael Rath, January 2021-December 2022. Project: Risk Management in Power Grids 
(joint with G. Iyengar and D. Bienstock). First position: McKinsey & Company
Zhaoyu Zhang, 2019-2020. Project: Data Driven Algorithms for Risk Preference Estimation.  
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Sveinn Olafsson, 2018-2021. Project: Robo-Advising and Cryptocurrencies
Current Position: Assistant Professor, School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology
Benjamin Bernard. Project: Bail-in and Bailout Policies in Financial Networks.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Hongzhong Zhang. Project: Market Microstructure, Competition, and Inventory Costs
Current Position: Quantitative Researcher, Enlightenment Research, LLC
Matt Stern. Project: Human-Machine Interaction Systems with Applications to Robo-Advising
Current Position: Staff Data Scientist at Thrasio
Marko Weber Projects: Liquidity Management and Strategic Portfolio Systemic Allocations
Current Position. Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore