Alex Papanicolaou completed his Ph.D. from the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University in 2013 and obtained a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and B.A. in Economics from UCLA in 2007. At Stanford, Alex developed statistical testing...Read more about Alex Papanicolaou
Alex Shkolnik obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics & Engineering from Stanford University in 2015. His thesis work centered on computational methods for models used in the quantification and management of credit risk. Alex's expertise lies in transform and Monte Carlo...Read more about Alex Shkolnik
Allan Rosenberg is a financial risk modeler and software developer with a particular research interest in modeling the nonstationary covariance of financial risk factors. As a Researcher and Vice President at State Street Bank & Trust Co., he led a team that developed software for Monte...Read more about Allan Rosenberg
Anders is an executive and board advisor for the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Innovation Center in Palo Alto, one of eight global offices. The mission of the team is to build bridges to a sustainable future by establishing public, private, and research collaboration and...Read more about Anders Christjansen
Dangxing Chen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk at
the University of California, Berkeley. There, his research concentrates on the study of the
mathematical model and the development of efficient numerical methods in finance. His ongoing
focus is on...Read more about Dangxing Chen
David Mongeau is the Executive Director of BIDS. With the Director and Faculty Council, he sets strategic direction and oversees the institute’s research, training, and outreach. David also leads the institute’s industry and foundation relations and its engagement with other UC and global...Read more about David Mongeau
Hubeyb Gurdogan holds Master's degrees in pure mathematics from Bilkent University and Syracuse University. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics in 2021 from Florida State University under the supervision of Prof. Alec Kercheval. Hubeyb joined Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR) in...Read more about Hubeyb Gurdogan
Dr. Bohn is the Chief Research & Innovation Officer and Head of Research & Engagement at the Swiss Re Institute. Most recently, he served as Chief Science Officer and Head of GX Labs at State Street Global Exchange in San Francisco. Before moving back to California, he established the...Read more about Jeffrey Bohn
Professor ZHAO Jingmei joined the School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, in 2003 as a Lecturer, Associate Professor in 2005, Professor in 2009 and Vice Dean in 2007. She was appointed Executive Dean of the School of Finance in 2016. Prof. Zhao served as...Read more about Jingmei Zhao
John is the Head of Macro Strategy Products & Analytics at Bank of New York Mellon, the group responsible for developing trading analytics and models of financial market dynamics for BNYM Markets businesses and their clients by applying the tools of data science to vast amounts of...Read more about John Arabadjis
Julia is a financial services professional and a visiting scholar with Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research. In her investment career she was responsible for systematic equities research and portfolio management for State Street Global Advisors, Wedbush Equity Management, Infinium...Read more about Julia Belford
Kathleen is the Global Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at AXA Investment Managers Rosenberg Equities, a pioneer in quantitative equity investing and ESG integration. As Global CIO, she leads Rosenberg’s investment and research organization. Kathleen...Read more about Kathleen Houssels
Kay Giesecke is Professor of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He...Read more about Kay Giesecke
CDAR co-Director Lisa Goldberg is Professor of the Practice of Economics at University of California, Berkeley and Head of Research at Aperio Group, now part of BlackRock. Dr. Goldberg is a mathematician whose research integrates best practices from industry and academia. Her work has touched...Read more about Lisa Goldberg
Morten Larsen is Senior Advisor at the Danish Innovation Centre in Palo Alto, where he facilitates collaboration between Denmark and California within research, higher education, innovation and entrepreneurship. He runs a fintech exchange program for Danish elite students coming to UC Berkeley...Read more about Morten Larsen
Nicholas L. Gunther received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard in 1982 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1986. Nick worked as an associate specializing in tax matters at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton until 1992. From 1992 until the present, Nick has worked on the...Read more about Nick Gunther
Ola Mahmoud is Assistant Professor of Corporate Finance at the University of Basel in Switzerland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2011, a Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics (also known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) from the...Read more about Ola Mahmoud
Qing Li is Associate Dean of the Information School at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). He is a professor at SWUFE and an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. Prior to that, he worked at the Eller Business School at the University of Arizona, the...Read more about Qing Li
Qizhi TAO is a Professor and the Director of the BSc in Finance Program, School of Finance, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. His research focus is on Corporate Finance (M&A, dividends policy and capital structures). He has published several research papers in journals...Read more about Qizhi Tao
Robert M. Anderson is Director of the Center for Risk Management Research at UC Berkeley. He is also Professor of the Graduate School, Coleman Fung Professor Emeritus of Risk Management, and Professor Emeritus of...Read more about Robert Anderson
Saad Mouti completed his Ph.D. in Financial and Actuarial Mathematics at Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6, France) in 2017. Prior to that, he obtained a financial engineering diploma from the National School of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science of Grenoble in...Read more about Saad Mouti
Samim Ghamami is currently an economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA), a senior researcher and an adjunct professor of finance at New York University, a senior researcher at UC Berkeley Center for Risk...Read more about Samim Ghamami
Sang earned a B.S. in Managerial Economics from UC Davis in 2001. She started her career in the Information Services and Technology department at UC Berkeley. She then moved into Central payroll and later to Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was an operations manager for three...Read more about Sang Oum
Tingyue Gan received her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She joined CDAR in July 2018. Her current research interests are natural language processing, graph embedding, and their use cases. Read more about Tingyue Gan
Xiaowu Dai obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2019 and a Master’s in Computer Science and a Master’s in Mathematics from UW-Madison. He graduated with distinction from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.
His research interests include kernel...Read more about Xiaowu Dai
Xubin Cao is Director of the Economic Management Experimental Teaching Center at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). He joined SWUFE in 1995 and has long been responsible for the campus IT strategy and laboratory management. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems...Read more about Xubin Cao