Teaching

As primary instructor

NHH Norwegian School of Economics

MSc International Finance

FIE 433 | Elective course, Financial Economics specialization | Since Autumn 2024

This course provides an introduction to international finance, covering the major characteristics, institutions, and participants in foreign exchange markets. It examines the use of derivatives, including options, futures, and swaps, for managing foreign currency risk, as well as portfolio allocation and corporate finance decisions in an international context.

MSc Big Data with Applications to Finance

FIE 453 | Elective course, Financial Economics specialization | From Autumn 2026

This course provides an introduction to foundational machine learning methods with applications in finance. It emphasizes practical implementation in R and rigorous evaluation of model performance, with particular attention to the distinction between in-sample fit and out-of-sample predictability.

Topics include a range of machine learning models, model evaluation and selection, and their applications to financial problems. A central theme is the importance of signal quality and economic reasoning when applying increasingly sophisticated predictive methods to financial data.

As teaching assistant

UCLA Anderson School of Management

• MFE Data Analytics and Machine Learning (Fall 2018/Spring 2019/Spring 2020/Spring 2021)

• MFE Quantitative Asset Management (Spring 2019)

• MBA Corporate Finance (Winter 2021)

• MBA Foundations of Finance (Spring 2021/Spring 2022)

• MFE Credit Markets (Fall 2021)

• MFE Fixed-Income Markets (Winter 2022)

• MFE Stochastic Calculus (Fall 2022)

• MFE Financial Risk Management (Spring 2023)