People
Meet our Faculty and Staff
The Department of Finance and Risk Engineering includes numerous industry experts with real-world experience to share and a hands-on, practical approach to classroom learning.
Core Faculty
Barry Blecherman
Finance and Risk Engineering Deputy Department Chair; Industry Professor
David Shimko
Finance and Risk Engineering Interim Department Chair; Industry Full Professor
Agnes Tourin
Industry Associate Professor
Amine Mohamed Aboussalah
Industry Assistant Professor
Faculty Collaborators
Umberto Cherubini
Research Collaborator
Pasquale Cirillo
FRE Boot Camp Instructor
Conall O'Sullivan
FRE Boot Camp Instructor
Derek Snow
Visiting Industry Assistant Professor
Stephan Sturm
Research Collaborator
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Retired Distinguished Professor
Staff
Marissa Alonzo
Program Coordinator
Sara Tomeo DeLusant
Career Placement Director
Carmen Montes de Oca
Director of Operations
Jennifer Novicki
Communications Manager
Zahra Patterson
Program Manager
James Tien
Assistant Director, IT & Facilities
Adjunct Faculty
Roza Galeeva
ex Morgan Stanley
Andrey Itkin
Adjunct Professor
Brian R. Lessing
Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company
Edith Mandel
Greenwich Street Advisors, LLC
Shlomo Mandel
Adjunct Professor
Ingrid Marshall
Adjunct Professor
Jerzy Pawlowski
Adjunct Professor
Thomas K. Philips, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Meninder Purewal
Adjunct Professor; Bank of America
Francisco Rubio
StoneX Group Inc.
Anatoly Schmidt
ex Kensho
Ronald Slivka
Founder, Portfolio Advice Associates
Leon Tatevossian
ex Royal Bank of Canada
Edward Weinberger
Adjunct Professor
Kenneth Winston
California Institute of Technology
Jason Yarmish
Data Scientist
