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Meet our Faculty, Staff, and Ph.D. Students
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.
Full-Time Faculty
Nizar Touzi
Department Chair, Finance and Risk Engineering; Professor
Amine Mohamed Aboussalah
Industry Assistant Professor
Barry Blecherman
Vice Department Chair, Finance and Risk Engineering; Industry Professor
David Shimko
Industry Professor
Agnes Tourin
Industry Professor; Capstone Advisor
Renyuan Xu
Assistant Professor
Xin Zhang
Assistant Professor
Visiting Faculty
Julien Guyon
Visiting Associate Professor
Cross-Appointment Faculty
Mathieu Laurière
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science and Finance and Risk Engineering, NYU Tandon; Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science, NYU Shanghai
Adjunct Faculty
James Adams
Adjunct Professor
Andrew Arnold
Adjunct Professor
Arka Bandyopadhyay
Adjunct Professor
Robert Benhenni
Adjunct Professor
Roy Freedman
Adjunct Professor
Shonali Gupta
Adjunct Professor
Ben Hoff
Adjunct Professor
Andrey Itkin
Adjunct Professor
Bruno Kamdem
Adjunct Professor
Farouk Khlifi
Adjunct Professor
Sudeep Kumar Lahiri
Adjunct Professor
Brian R. Lessing
Adjunct Professor; Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company
Keith A. Lewis
Adjunct Professor
Edith Mandel
Adjunct Professor; Greenwich Street Advisors, LLC
Shlomo Mandel
Adjunct Professor
Ingrid Marshall
Adjunct Professor
Tore Opsahl
Adjunct Professor
Jerzy Pawlowski
Adjunct Professor
Christopher Perez
Adjunct Professor
Thomas K. Philips, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Richard Radnay
Adjunct Professor
Francisco Rubio
Adjunct Professor; StoneX Group Inc.
William Segal
Adjunct Professor
Anatoly Schmidt
Adjunct Professor; ex Kensho
Yanwen Shang
Adjunct Professor
Leon Tatevossian
Adjunct Professor
Edward Weinberger
Adjunct Professor
Kenneth Winston
Adjunct Professor
Jason Yarmish
Adjunct Professor
Nabil W. Zaki
Adjunct Professor
FRE Boot Camp Instructors
Ludovic Tangpi
FRE Boot Camp Instructor
Jason Yarmish
Adjunct Professor
Research Scholar
Nathan Sauldubois
Research Scholar
Staff
Marissa Alonzo
Program Coordinator
Sara Tomeo DeLusant
Director, Career & Industry Relations
Carmen Montes de Oca
Director of Operations & Administration
Jennifer Novicki
Communications Manager
Zahra Patterson
Program Manager
James Tien
Assistant Director, IT & Facilities
Ph.D. Students
Abdessalam Ed-dib
Ph.D. Student
Yinbin Han
Ph.D. Student
Yuxing Huang
Ph.D. Student
Mathieu Lise
Ph.D. Student
Retired Faculty
Frederick Novomestky
Retired Industry Professor
Ronald Slivka
Retired Adjunct Professor
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Retired Distinguished Professor