Despite market turmoil, financial engineering 'quants' see number-crunching future
By Anne Ju
November 10, 2008
Strolling by the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, Cornell financial engineering master's students' cheerful chatter echoed across grim canyons. Read more
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan Advisory Board Members On Credit Crisis Panel
October 6, 2008
Robert Jarrow and Richard Marin joined Maureen O'Hara in a panel discussion called "Financial Chaos Unraveled" at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Jarrow and Marin are members of the Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan Advisory Board. Read more
Special Activities Mark the Beginning of the Master of Engineering Year
September 24, 2008
New and continuing Master of Engineering students participated in orientation activities in Ithaca and Manhattan, including an introduction to new program features. Read more
Advanced Trading Selects Cornell Financial Engineering Within Top 10 Programs
August 25, 2008
Cornell FE program earned high marks based on "Wall Street recruitability" from an independent board comprised of senior Wall Streeters in a survey conducted by Advanced Trading. Read more
Sasha Stoikov Returns to Head Research at Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM)
August 19, 2008
Sasha Stoikov, who spent the 2006-7 academic year in ORIE as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Ithaca, joins the staff of Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan to head research and advise Masters projects. Read more
Wall Street Journal Selects Alumnus Todd Rethemeier as a Top Analyst for a Second Year
June 18, 2008
For the second year in a row, the Wall Street Journal "Best on the Street Special Report" has named Todd Rethemeier, BS '93 MEng '94 MBA '95, as a top stock analyst. This year, Rethemeier achieved the rank of number 2 in the mobile telecommunications sector. Last year he was number 3 in the fixed line telecommunications sector.
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M. Eng. Student Duncan Wong is a Grand Prize Winner in an International Trading Competition
June 12, 2008
The JP Morgan FantasyFutures game provides each contestant with a simulated futures trading account and lets them write interest rates futures contracts to capture profits from interest rate moves within the global marketplace. Duncan Wong, who came to Cornell from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, had the highest profit of all of the US participants in week seven of the eight week competition, which turned out to be the highest profit for the entire US competition. Read more
Master of Engineering Student Ye (Jay) Tian Places Second in Automated Trading Competition
April 8, 2008
Jay Tian has won $50,000 as the second place finisher in the third annual Interactive Brokers Collegiate Trading Olympiad. Tian developed software that automatically trades options on stocks and commodity futures. Read more
Meeting and Greeting During a Turbulent Wall Street Week
February 4, 2008
Current students in Cornell's Financial Engineering Concentration met on January 17, 2008, with alumni and other industry representatives at Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan. Read more
Advisory Council for Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan Holds Inaugural Meeting
November 28, 2007
The newly named ORIE office at 55 Broad Street, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM), now has an Advisory Council of 13 financial industry luminaries. The Council met together for the first time on November 8 at the Cornell Club in New York. Read more
The Road to a Financial Engineering Masters Degree Begins in Ithaca and Leads Straight to Manhattan
November 26, 2007
Next fall, students in the Financial Engineering Concentration will move to New York City to complete their 3-semester program. Their capstone Financial Engineering project and final course work will take place at ORIE's CFEM near the Stock Exchange.
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New Financial Engineering Students Attend Orientation at OR-Manhattan
August 21, 2007
The School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) welcomed new students in the Financial Engineering Masters Concentration Aug. 16 at an orientation session designed to quickly immerse students in the real world of financial services. Read more
Bloomberg Markets Magazine Profiles Robert Jarrow as "The Innovator"
August 1, 2007
In the August 2007 issue of Bloomberg Markets Peter Carr describes the history and mathematics of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model for valuing interest rate derivatives. Jarrow belongs to the field of OR and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Read more
Victoria Averbukh to Direct Financial Engineering Manhattan
July 11, 2007
Victoria Averbukh has been named the Director of Financial Engineering Manhattan, the educational and research center of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at 55 Broad Street in the Wall Street district of Manhattan. Read more
Philip Protter Delivers Inaugural von Mises Lecture on Financial Bubbles
June 7, 2007
On June 7, 2007, Professor Protter gave the first annual Richard von Mises Lecture in Berlin, Germany, on the subject of financial bubbles. Read more
Cornell Announces Financial Engineering Intern Program
February 15, 2006
Cornell's Masters of Financial Engineering program is launching a new summer internship with financial services firms in New York City. The goal is to provide graduate students with real Wall Street experience in the middle of their studies, while offering financial services firms a way to tap into ... Read more