Presentation and Conversation with Winners of the IAQF Academic Case Competition

Join the IAQF for virtual presentations and conversations with the departments master’s students and winners of the IAQF Academic Case Competition.

Thursday, September 29th

 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET

Schedule of Events:

• Introductions & Presentation of Problem
• Questions to Each of the Team
• Following an overview of the problem that students were asked to work on, the moderator turn it over to each of the Teams who have 10 minutes to discuss how they came to their conclusion.
• This will be followed by questions to the students

The Winning Teams:

Team Superficial Intelligencefrom Johns Hopkins University, Master of Science in Engineering in Financial Mathematics. The team was led by student team captain Kefan Zhuo. Team members included Hsueh-Wei Chen, Yawen Hu, Yuhan Ma, Chris Qian, and Chi Yu Yeh. The team worked under the direction of David Audley and John Miller.

Team Short Squeezers from UC Berkeley, Haas School, Master of Financial Engineering. The team was led by student team captain Pradeepta Das. Team members included Akash Verma, Chunyan Lei, Zhuoyuan Xu, Sarthak Sagar, and Sheldon Bernard. The team worked under the direction of Kevin Coldiron and Linda Kreitzman.

Team Greek Gods from Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Science in Computational Finance. The team was led by student team captain Abhijith Venkat. Team members included Jasmine Lim, Jinxia Ouyang, Mengyue Tai, Revanth Boppana, and Xiangyin Chen. The team worked under the direction of Richard Bryant.

 Team One Price from Cornell University, Master of Financial Engineering. The team was led by student team captain Evan Kurzman. Team members included Payton Martin, William Line, Kelvin Sun, Peter Emanuel, and Vishad Bhalodia. The team worked under the direction of Sasha Stoikov.

Team Superficial Intelligencefrom Johns Hopkins University, Master of Science in Engineering in Financial Mathematics. The team was led by student team captain Kefan Zhuo. Team members included Hsueh-Wei Chen, Yawen Hu, Yuhan Ma, Chris Qian, and Chi Yu Yeh. The team worked under the direction of David Audley and John Miller.

Team Five+1 Guys from New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Masters in Financial Engineering. The team was led by student team captain Jiaqi Liang. Team members included Chi Wang Chau, Guojun Chen, Jiarui Li, Wenyi Huang, and Wu-Yen Sun. The team worked under the direction of Ron Slivka.

Team Alphafrom New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, Masters in Financial Engineering. The team was led by student team captain Xingyuan Ding. Team members included Levi Lan, Jie Zhou, Shuman Pan, Qiaomin Wang, and Chenwei Wu. The team worked under the direction of Ron Slivka.

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