Graduate Students
Thiha Aung (Ludkovski)
Sam Babichenko (Ichiba)
Emre Duzoylum (Ludkovski)
Botao Jin (Hu)
Ka Lok Lam (Fouque and Ichiba)
Qijin Shi (Ichiba)
Juan Diego Mejia Becerra (Hu and Peters)
Hoang Huy Vu (Ichiba)
Haosheng Zhou (Hu)
Jisu Yu (Ludkovski)
Hezhong Zhang (Hu and Ludkovski)
CFMAR PhD Alumni
Brian Wignall, 2009, Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma Investments, New York
Eli Kollman, 2009, Director, Senior Quantitative Finance Manager, Bank of America, London
Marick Sinay, 2010, Chief Data Scientist at Zenalytics, Los Angeles
Winslow Strong, 2011, CTO / Co-founder at Palo Alto Neuroscience, San Francisco
Matt Lorig, 2011, Assistant Professor, Dept of Applied Mathematics, U of Washington, Seattle
Raj Sau, 2012, Assistant Vice President, Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America, New York
Chunkai Gao, 2013, Vice President, Model Risk Management, Barclays, New York
Qunying Shen, 2013, Lead Modeler at RMS, San Francisco
Bin Ren, 2013, Senior Research Engineer, AOL, San Francisco
Li-Hsien Sun, 2014, Assistant Professor, National Central University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chunhsiung (Nate) Lu, 2014, Quantitative Analyst, Capital One, Washington DC
Yuri Saporito, 2014, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics Department, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Matt Hancock, 2014,
Kyle Bechler, 2015, Senior Analysist at Coldwell Banker Real Estate (CBRE)
Yi-Tai Chiu, 2015, Quantitative Finance Analyst at Bank of America, Los Angeles
Jacob Serup, 2015, Visiting Assistant Professor, UCSB and Founder, Divitias Capital
Mustafa Mousavi, 2017, Associate, Rates Quantitative Analysis, Citi, New York
Jimmy Risk, 2017, Associate Professor, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics, Cal Poly Pomona
Xuwei Yang, 2017, Lecturer, McMaster U, Canada
Patricia (Ning) Ning, 2018, Research Scientist, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington Seattle
Ruimeng Hu, 2018, PSTAT UCSB
Liangchen Li, 2018, Quantative Researcher, J.P. Morgan, Hong Kong
Mark Dela, 2019, Lecturer, Department of Mathematics and Statsitics, Cal Poly Pomona
Mike (Zhaoyu) Zhang, 2019, Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCLA
Aditya Maheshwari, 2019, Amazon Seattle
Osvaldo Assuncao, 2020, Portfolio Manager, Bradesco Asset Management, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Aaron Zhipu Zhou, 2020, Goldman Sachs
Andrea Angiuli, 2021, Research Scientist, Amazon, Boston
Nhan Huynh, 2021, Consultant, Santa Barbara Actuaries
Jimin Lin, 2023, Bloomberg LLP
Youhong Lee, 2023
Alan Raydan, 2024, Amazon
Drew Balkin 2023, PIMCO
Ming Min, 2023, AI
Huiyu Jiang, 2024
Xiaoqian Zhu, 2025, Morgan Stanley New York
Alex Bernstein, 2025
Zhuoli Jin, 2025
Liang Feng, 2025
Cosmin Borsa, 2026

