By Jack Simonson, CFRM MS Class of 2017 When I started the Computational Finance and Risk Management (CFRM) program I truly had little-to-no idea of what I would wind up doing once I graduated. I had vague notions of what I might do and areas of study that interested me, …
Wednesday, September 26 marked the first day of autumn quarter, and the start of the 2018-19 academic year. We are excited to welcome 24 campus students and 22 online students to the MS program. The 2018 campus cohort includes students from four countries, and nearly half (46%) are women. Students …
As we approach autumn, Computational Finance and Risk Management (CFRM) faculty and staff are delighted to welcome new and returning students back to campus for the 2018-2019 academic year. There are a lot of exciting events we are looking forward to beginning in October. In addition to their coursework, students …
A team of CFRM students was recently announced as winners of the International Association for Quantitative Finance’s (IAQF) Seventh Annual Academic Affiliate Membership Student Competition. The winning team, named Stratton Oakquant, was led by student team captain Gregory Brownson. Team members included Loc Cao, Tommy Lewis, Dominic Mauer, Hung Nguyen, …
The UW CFRM program has been recognized as one of the top financial engineering MS programs in North America by the latest QuantNet Ranking. Our program surpassed MIT, UCLA, and University of Toronto to rank #11, rising three spots from two years ago and one spot from last year. The …
The University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics, Computational Finance and Risk Management (CFRM) program continues to cultivate and strengthen relationships across the financial and investment sectors through participation in industry events and by providing opportunities for students to network and learn from established professionals. Twenty-one CFRM students and faculty …
CFRM is excited to welcome two new instructors for the 2017-2018 academic year, Bahman Angoshtari and Ryan Donnelly. Both are joining the program after completing postdoctoral research (Bahman at the University of Michigan and Ryan at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne’s Swiss Finance Institute). Bahman’s research interests include applications of …
Nearly all CFRM courses will receive a new number for the 2017-2018 academic year. As a result of our growing program and the availability of additional blocks of course numbers, we have reorganized our courses to create additional room for future expansion of our course offerings. The new course numbers also …
First year Computational Finance & Risk Management MS students Chenying Lai, Shanshan Zhang, Feibai Zhu, and Zhichao Li are competing as a team in the CFA Institute Research Challenge and have been selected as finalists for the local competition. They will present their research report and investment recommendations to CFA judges at …
Due to changes in our course scheduling (more details on MS courses to be announced in the coming months) and student preferences, we will no longer be running our Quantitative Fundamentals certificate program as a summer intensive. Students beginning the program in Winter 2017 will not be affected by these changes. …
