Physics of Financial Markets

  A partial list of University of  Rochester Alumni in Physics and Astronomy, who are currently working in areas related to finance, data mining and related areas


Alumnus       
Previous UR affiliation       
Current Position     

Employer
1. Sergei Avvakumov

UR PhD 2001  (Bodek), Experimental High Enerygy Physics, NuTeV PhD Thesis: Postdoc MINOS (Stanford), Postoc MINERvA (Rochester). PhD. Thesis: Search for muon neutrino oscillation in the E815(NuTeV) fixed target neutrino experiment at Fermilab.

Financial Engineer/Research Associate (MINERva)
U of R Physics Dept (Physics of Financial Markets)
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/
Email: avvakumov at gmail.com

2. Kamel Bazizi

UR Postoc 1995-1997 (Slattery) Experimental High Energy Physics ATLAS

Vice President of Research & Consulting CMS BondEdge
http://www.cmsbondedge.com/index.html

3. Giuseppe Ballocchi UR PhD 1989 (Ferbel) Experimental High Energy Physics, E706. PhD Thesis: Measurement of [pi] production at low transverse momentum.

Head of Risk Management
Member of Board of Swiss Society of Investment Professionals
Pictet & Cie. , Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.pictet.com/
Email:  gballocchi at pictet.com
4. John P. Borders

UR PhD 1994 (Ferbel), Experimental High Energy  Physics, Dzero PhD. Thesis: Optimization of jet energy resolution and response of the D0 detector.

Analyst
Credit Suisse,
Eleven Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10010-3629 US
Phone +1 212 325 2000
Fax +1 212 325 6665
http://www.credit-suisse.com/us/en/
5. Tainwu Cai

UR PhD 1996  (Bigelow), Experimental Quantum Opticsd, PhD Thesis: Mechanical effect in the two-dimensional laser-atom interaction.

Analyst
McKinsey & Co
http://www.mckinsey.com/
6. Calin Ciordas-Ciurdariu

UR MS 1996 (Teitel), Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics


Analyst

7. Dinco Cule UR PhD 1995 (Shapir),  Theoretical Condensed Matter, PhD Thesis: Glassy Properties of Surfaces Growing on Random Substrates

Analyst
J. P. Morgan
http://www.jpmorgan.com/
8. James Dunlea

UR Postdoc (Slattery), Experimental High Energy Physics, ATLAS

 Vice President of Financial Engineering Redwood Investment Systems
http://www.redwood.com/

9. Renato Ejnisman

UR PhD 1998 (Bigelow), Experimental Quantum Optics. PhD Thesis: Studies with Ultracold Atoms

Consultant McKinsey & Co. Brazil
http://www.mckinsey.com/

10. Emile E.  Ettedgui

UR PhD 1995 (Gao), Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. PhD Thesis: Surface and interface studies of light emitting semiconducting materials.


Analysit
Rand Corporation, DC
http://www.rand.org/
11. Mortin Farber

UR PhD 1970 (Ferbel), Experimental High Energy Physics, PhD. Thesis: Study of diffractively produced three-body final states in K p interactions at 13 GeV/c.

Senior Analyst
Boeing International
http://www.boeing.com/
12. Adrian Ghinculov UR Postdoc 2002-2003, Theoretical Paticle Physics
Analyst
Merril Lynch
http://www.ml.com/

13. Robert James Henderson

UR PhD, 1997 (Rajeev), Theoretical High Energy Physics, PhD. Thesis: Finite formulations of renormalizable theories.


Vice President
XL Weather & Energy Inc.,
formerly Element Re Capital Products Inc.
http://www.xlwe.com/
14. Alexander Karev

UR PhD. 1987 (Das and Mathur) Theoretical High Energy Physics, PhD Thesis: Studies in the derivative expansion and finite temperature quantum field theory.

Analyst
Och-Ziff Capital
9 West 57 Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 790-0137
Email: akarev at ozcap.com

15. Adil A. Khan

UR PhD.1999 (Shapir and Schnidman) Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, PhD Thesis: Lattice-gas models of interfacial dynamics.

Analyst
The Hartford Company
http://www.thehartford.com/
16. Demetris G.  Lappas
UR PhD. 1995 (Eberly) Theoretical Quantum Optics,  PhD Thesis: Aspects of electron correlation in one-dimensional electron-hydrogen scattering.


17. Jedong Lee
UR PhD. 2006 (McFarland) Experimental Particle Physics, CDF,  PhD Thesis:  Financial Engineer/Research Associate (CDF) U of R Physics Dept (Physics of Financial Markets)
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/
Email: dlee at fnal.gov
18. Ying-Hong Li

UR Postdoc 1988-1990 (Teitel) Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics



19. Hwa Aun Lim

UR PhD 1986 (Das), Theoretical High Energy Physics, PhD Thesis: Studies on strong-coupling approximations in a class of supersymmetric field theories, and, dynamical symmetry breaking a la Nambu-Jona-Lasanio.

President
D'Trends, Inc.
http://www.d-trends.com/
Email: hal at d-trends.com
Email:  hal at ivyhg.com
20. John Philip Mansour

UR PhD 1990 (Ferbel), Experimental High Energy Physics.  E706  PhD Thesis: High transverse momentum pion production from pion and proton beams at 530 GeV/c on Be and Cu.
 
Analyst
CNA
333 E Butterfield Road
Suite 700
Lombard, IL 60148
630-719-3000
http://www.cna.com/
21. Bruce E.  Moskowitz

UR Postdoc 1986-1988 (Melissinos) Experimental High Energy Physics, Axions.

Analyst

22.  Roland Blaine Roberts

UR PhD 1993 (Gazes), Experimental Nuclear Physics. PhD Thesis: Measurements of sub-barrier transfer yields in S+ Nb, Mo reactions at 180.

Analyst

23. Sergio A. Pernice

UR Postdoc  1995-1997 (Das) Theoretical High Energy Physics

Professor of Finance
“Centro de Estudios en Ingeniería Financiera”
(CEIF) de la Universidad del CEMA
Cordoba, Argentina.
http://ceif.cema.edu.ar/  http://www.cema.edu.ar/u/sp/
Emai:  sp at cema.edu.ar
24.  Wolfgang Scherer

UR PhD 1988 (Das), Theoretical High Energy Physics PhD Thesis: Canonical quantization of constrained systems and coadjoint orbits of Diff(Su1)

Analyst
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Riverbank House/5th floor
2 Swan Lane
London EC4R 3U UK
Phone: +44 020 747-54403
http://www.dresdnerkleinwort.com/
Email:  wolfgang.scherer at drkw.c
25. Neil Mark  Shaw UR PhD. 1990 (Thorndike), Experimental  High Energy Physics, AMY PhD Thesis:  Search for unstable heavy neutral leptons in electron-positron annihilations at center-of-mass  energies from 50 to 61.4GeV ( Postdoc CDF)

Financial Engineer
UBS Bank,
400 Atlantic Street
Stamford, CT 0690
phone: 203-719 6200
http://www.ibb.ubs.com/
Email:  Mark.Shaw at ubs.com
26. John Varghese

UR Postdoc 1999-2000 (Das) Theoretical High Energy Physics

Analyst

27. Robert Walker

UR Postdoc  1989-1993 (Bodek) Experimental High Energy Physics, AMY/CDF

General Partner YEBY

Chief Executive Officer Brigdgelux
YEBY Associates, LLC
822 Upland Rd.
Redwood City, CA 94062 USA
Tel: +1-650-208-4728

Fax: +1-650-261-9930

http://www.yeby.org/home.htm
http://www.bridgelux.com/aboutus/management.html
Email: Robert at VEBY.org
28. Zhu Yang

UR Postdoc 1991-1993 (Das)  High Energy Theory

Analyst



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