Andreea Minca
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

Former PhD Students and Placement

1. Andrey Krishenik, May 2015.
   Thesis title: Essays on Funding Liquidity and Credit Risk.
   First position: Quantitative Research, JPMorgan.
   


2. Anton Braverman (Co-chair, Chair: Jim Dai), April 2017.
   Thesis title: Steady-state diffusion approximations in service systems: engineering solutions and error bounds.
   First position: Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
   


3. Rui Chen (Co-chair, Chair: Agnes Sulem), July 2019.
   Thesis title: Dynamic optimal control for large financial networks and mean field systems with jumps.
   Awards: Paris Foundation of Mathematical Sciences (FSMP) PhD Fellowship.
   First position: Quantitative Researcher, Citadel.


4. Weilong Guo (Chair), January 2020.
   Thesis title: Advancing quantitative investment with machine learning and network analysis.
   First position: Quantitative Researcher, AQR.


5. Ariah Klages-Mundt (Chair), May 2023.
   Awards: Bloomberg PhD Fellowship; Cornell Commercialization Fellowship, NSF I-Corps and INFORMS Finance Section Best Student Paper (finalist).
   First position: Founder of Gyroscope Stablecoin

Current PhD Students

6. Peihan Huo (Chair).
   
7. Yuxuan Liu (Co-Chair, Chair: Bob Jarrow).