Former PhD Students and Placement
- Andrey Krishenik, May 2015.
Thesis title: Essays on Funding Liquidity and Credit Risk.
First position: Quantitative Research, JPMorgan.
- 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.
- 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. - Weilong Guo (Chair), January 2020.
Thesis title: Advancing quantitative investment with machine learning and network analysis.
First position: Quantitative Researcher, AQR. - 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 - Yuxuan Liu (Co-Chair, Chair: Bob Jarrow). Sep 2023.
First position: Tower Research Capital - Peihan Huo (Chair) August 2025
First position: NVIDIA (Financial Services)
Current PhD Students
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Accepting motivated PhD students, interested in stablecoins and central bank digital currency, AI for Financial Derivatives or Resilience in Domestic Supply Chains.
Contact Information
Andreea Minca
Cornell University
222 Rhodes Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-9133 - phone
(607) 255-9129 - fax