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 (deceased)
Barry Blecherman
Deputy Department Chair and Industry Professor
David Shimko
Industry Full Professor
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
Umberto Cherubini
Research Collaborator
Pasquale Cirillo
FRE Boot Camp Instructor
Samim Ghamami
Senior Researcher
Conall O'Sullivan
FRE Boot Camp Instructor
Derek Snow
Visiting Industry Assistant Professor
Stephan Sturm
Research Collaborator
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Retired Distinguished Professor
Staff
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
Brian R. Lessing
Equitable Financial Life Insurance Company
Edith Mandel
Greenwich Street Advisors, LLC
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
Kenneth Winston
California Institute of Technology
Jason Yarmish
Data Scientist
FRE Bulls & Bears Club
Vibhor Chandra Gupta
Student
Jiaqi (Vanessa) Liang
Student
Abhishek Kulkarni
Student
Tejashri (TJ) Prabhu
Student
Junming (Jim) Yang
M.S. in Financial Engineering