Faculty

Rene Carmona
Research Interests: Stochastic processes, financial mathematics, stochastic partial differential equations, signal processing (time frequency analysis, wavelets) and image analysis.
Bill Massey
Research Interests: Performance and pricing models for telecommunications systems. Asymptotic analysis and stochastic bounds for queueing networks. Special interests in the theories of queues with time-varying rates and stochastic networks.
Birgit Rudloff
Research Interests: Hedging in incomplete markets, convex and coherent risk measures, Convex Analysis, mathematical finance, risk-management.
Ronnie Sircar
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, stochastic volatility models, credit risk, asymptotic and computational methods, portfolio optimization and stochastic control problems, utility indifference valuation. Stochastic differential games.

Postdoctoral Associates

Michael Coulon
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, energy and commodities markets.
Stephan Sturm
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, stochastic volatility, large deviations.
Maxim Bichuch
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, transaction cost models.
Andrew Papanicolaou
Research Interests: Filtering, Financial Mathematics, Computational Statistics.
Matt Lorig
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, stochastic volatility, spectral methods.

Ph.D. Students

Edmond Choi
Research Interests: Mathematical finance, credit risk, stochastic volatility, probablility theory, Levy processes.
Haifeng Luo
Research Interests: Mathematical Finance.
Yi Ma
Research Interests: Jump-diffusion model and stochastic volatility.
Jamol Pender
Research Interests: Queueing Theory, Stochastic Processes, Dynamical Systems, Partial Differential Equations.
Michael Stein
Research Interests: Financial Mathematics, Environmental Economics.

Former Ph.D. Students

Andrew Ledvina, Postdoctoral Scholar in Mathematical Finance, Caltech
Research Interests: Stochastic Differential Games, Mathematical Finance.
YouHong Sun
Research Interests: Spead option valuation and correlation theory.
Yang Zhou
Research Interests: Quantitative Finance, Market Microstructures, Optimal Execution Strategies, Stochastic Optimal Control, and Differential Games.