People

Kevin Hu (Ph.D. 2025) Junior Simons Fellow, Columbia University | Recipient of the Stella Dafermos Award and the Research Matters Award

Juniper Cocomello (Ph.D. 2025) Assistant Professor, Bucknell University | Recipient of the Dunmu Ji Award and the Research Matters Award

Xiaoyu (Darryl) Xie (Ph.D. 2024) | Recipient of the Sigma Xi Award

Ankan Ganguly (Ph.D. 2022) Postdoctoral Fellow, UPenn (Jan 2023) | Recipient of the Dunmu Ji Award

Yin-Ting Liao (Ph.D. 2022) Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Irvine | Recipient of a 2-year GSAA Scholarship and the Sigma Xi Award

Pooja Agarwal (Ph.D. 2021) Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD | Recipient of the Stella Dafermos Award

Steven Kim (Ph.D. 2017) Two Sigma Investments, NYC 

Reza Aghajani (Ph.D. 2016) Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD | Recipient of the Dunmu Ji Thesis Prize

Wei Wu (Ph.D. 2014) Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute, NYU 

Soummya Kar (Ph.D. 2010) Assistant Research Professor, CMU 

Leo Kontorovich (Ph.D. 2007) Assistant Professor, Ben Gurion University

Milica Cudina (Ph.D. 2006) Assistant Clinical Professor, UT Austin

Michel Davydov (Nov 2023-July 2025) Assistant Professor, University of Calais

Sarath Yasodharan (May 2022-Aug 2024) Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Patrick Lopatto (July 2021-June 2024) NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2022-June 2024); Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill

William Salkeld (Aug 2022-Dec 2023) Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

Souvik Dhara (Spring 2023) Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Debankur Mukherjee (2018-2019) Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech

Daniel Lacker (2015-2017) Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Ruoyu Wu (2017-2018) Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

David Lipshutz (2013-2017) Technion, Israel

Vaios Laschos (2013-2015) Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany

Xingjie (Helen) Li (2014-2015) Assistant Professor, UNC, Charlotte

Arnab Ganguly (2012-2013) Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana

Aaron Smith (2012-2013) Assistant Professor, University of Ontario

Gennady Shaikhet (2007-2010) Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Weining Kang (2005-2009) Assistant Professor, UMBC

Franz Rembart (from TUM, Spring 2013) Ph.D. Student, Oxford

Nakul Shankar (2008), VP, Highbridge Capital Management

Erika Bernice Roaldan Roa (from CIMAT, Mexico, 2016, 2018), Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ohio-State University

Ivan Lee (Summer 2023-) PhD Student, Statistics Department, Yale University, Honors thesis

Yizhong Hu (Summer 2023-Spring 2024) PhD Student, Physics Harvard University, Honors thesis  | Recipient of the Jerome Stein Prize

Chen Li (Fall 2023-Spring 2024) PhD student, Courant NYU, Honors thesis | Recipient of the Rohn Truell Prize

Caroline Kibbe (Spring 2023) Sprint/UTRA Award

Alan Chen (Spring 2023) Sprint/UTRA Award

Alexei Izmailov (Spring 2023) Sprint/UTRA Award: PhD Student, Brown University

Mira Gordin (2019-2020) PhD Student, CPAM Princeton University, Honors thesis | Recipient of the Rohn Truell Prize

Timothy Sudijono (2018-2019) PhD student, Stanford University, Honors thesis | Recipient of the Rohn Truell Prize

Misha Sohan (2019 Spring) PhD Student, Stat U. Chicago, Honors thesis | Recipient of the Jerome Stein Prize 

Rajita Chandak (2019 Spring) Honors Thesis; PhD Student, ORFE Princeton University

Mitchell Wortsman (2017-2018) Researcher, Allen Institute; then PhD student, UW, Honors Thesis | Recipient of the Jerome Stein Prize

Hwai-Ray Tung (2017-2018) Honors Thesis; PhD Student, Duke University

Wonho Rhee (2016) Honors Thesis; Derivatives Trader, Optiver US LLC

Eric Hu (2016) PhD Student, Columbia University.

Katrina Kardassakis (2014), PhD Student, Stanford GSB | Recipient of the Jerome Stein Prize

Daniel Gitelman (2012-2013), PhD Student, Princeton University | Recipient of the Rohn Truell Prize

Chongwu Du (Fall 2012)

Alice Ren (Fall 2011)

Kamal Ibrahim (Summer 2008)

Inez-Azaiez (Spring 2008)

E. Yeh (Summer 1998)

A. Bedekar (Summer 1998)