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
Peter Carr
Finance and Risk Engineering Department Chair; Professor
Barry Blecherman
Deputy Department Chair and Industry Professor
Andrew Papanicolaou
Assistant Professor
David Shimko
Industry Full Professor
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering
Charles Tapiero
Topfer Distinguished Professor of Financial Engineering and Technology Management; Founder, Department of Finance and Risk Engineering; Director, The Extreme Risk Initiative
Agnes Tourin
Industry Associate Professor
Faculty Collaborators
Stephan Sturm
Scholar in Residence
Staff
Sara (Tomeo) DeLusant
Career Placement Director
Carmen Montes de Oca
Director of Operations
Jennifer Novicki
Assistant Manager of Communications
Zahra Patterson
Program Manager
Jonnett R Romano
Program Manager
James Tien
IT and Media Manager
FRE Club
Abhirit Kanti
President
Yashu “Dale” Zhu
Vice President
Congyu “Alexis” Xu
Managing Director - Corporate Finance
Minghua “Henry” Xie
Managing Director - Trading
Julia Kapran
Managing Director - Quantitative Research
Christopher Rosin
Managing Director - Data Science