Congratulations to our Master in Financial Engineering students for submitting a winning solution to this year’s Ninth Annual Academic Affiliate Membership Student Competition, which is held by the International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF).
Out of 36 teams, the Cornell team was one of five that came out on top. All members of Team Quants by Ganges are in CFEM's Class of 2020: Team Captain Nikunj Agarwal, Subham Behera, Harsh Parsuram Puria, and Vineel Yellapantula. CFEM Senior Research Associate Sasha Stoikov was their advisor.
For more information, including the link to CFEM's winning paper, read the official announcement.
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