ORFE - Key Persons


Aaradhya Pandey


Abraar Chaudhry


Ahmet Çakmak


Alain Kornhauser

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Professor

Alessandro Chiusolo


Allan Sly

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mathematics

Amir Ali Ahmadi

Job Titles:
  • Director of the OQDS Certificate
  • Professor

Ariana Reyes

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant and Event Support

Bartolomeo Stellato

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Benjamin Budway


Boris Hanin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Boris Shigida


Brianne McLane

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Chair

Burak Aydin


Caitlin Daley

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Program Administrator

Carla Crucianelli


Chang Yu


Cheng Gao


Chenyu Yu


Claire Zeng


Connie Brown

Job Titles:
  • Department Manager

D. Jeffrey Penney

Job Titles:
  • Financial Services Manager
  • Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Jeff Penney is a financial services manager with 30 years of experience in banking and capital markets. Following two years as Head of Strategy for J.P. Morgan's Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB), he has returned to McKinsey where, from 2009 to 2013, he was a Senior Advisor and served on the global CIB Operating Committee with responsibility for the firm's Equities and Investment Banking practice. Prior to 2009, Mr. Penney held management positions at Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse across global markets and banking. He holds a BSE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton, and is also president of the independent record label Sons of Sound.

Dimitrios Lolas


Edwards S. Sanford

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics. Director, Bendheim Center for Finance

Edwin S. Wilsey

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Elad Hazan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science

Elizaveta Rebrova

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Emma Hubert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Erica Lai


Ethan Hua


Eugene Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering / Department Chair

Felix Ackon


Felix Hoefer


Filiz Garip

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs

Frederick L. Moore

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Finance

Giang Truong


Giulia Crippa


Gordon Y.S. Wu

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Engineering

H. Vincent Poor

Job Titles:
  • Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering

Heather Faust

Job Titles:
  • Partner and Managing Director of Argand Partners
Heather Faust is a Partner and Managing Director of Argand Partners, as well as a member of the Management Committee and Investment Committee. Previously she was Managing Director at Castle Harlan. Prior to joining Castle Harlan, Ms. Faust was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she worked in the United States and abroad across a variety of industries. Ms. Faust advised and directly assisted her clients in defining and implementing key strategic and operational business transformations. Ms. Faust's experience also includes roles in the consumer industry as well as international development work in the Middle East. She is currently a director of Sigma Electric and Tensar Corporation, and previously served as a director of Baker & Taylor, IDQ Holdings, Unc. and Ames True Temper. Ms. Faust graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Operational Research and Financial Engineering and holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Iosif Zimbidis


Irina Wang


Jackie Lok


Jake Freeman


Jason Klusowski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jennifer Horn

Job Titles:
  • Grants Assistant and Financial Coordinator

Jennifer Sun


Jhevon Smith


Jiawei Ge


Jikai Hou


Jinhang Chai


John Mulvey

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Katherine Milkman

Katherine Milkman is the Evan C. Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Excellence in Teaching and a professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a secondary appointment at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. Her research relies heavily on big data to explore ways that insights from economics and psychology can be used…

Kemal Askar

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Head of EMEA Rates Trading, Deutsche Bank
Kemal Askar is Managing Director, Head of EMEA rates Trading at Deutsche Bank. He runs a team of traders in NY, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Tokyo, that help manage the risk of Euro, GBP, CHF and Scandinavian denominated interest rate swaps, options, FX/equity hybrids and Sovereign and supra bond transactions as well as illiquid securities.

Kevin Zhang


Kimberly Lupinacci

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Administrator

Liz Canfield

Job Titles:
  • Grants Manager

Ludovic Tangpi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Madison Dearborn - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Scott Pasquini '01 is a Managing Director at Madison Dearborn Partners (MDP), where he focuses on investments in the Telecom, Media & Technology Services sectors. Prior to joining MDP, he was with GTCR Golder Rauner as an Associate and with Merrill Lynch in the Mergers & Acquisitions group. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors…

Maria Chudnovsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics

Mariam Alaverdian


Matias Cattaneo

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Professor

Mete Soner

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michael Bino

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Information Technologies

Mykhaylo Shkolnikov

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Nate Faust

Job Titles:
  • Head of US
Nate Faust is the head of US eCommerce Supply Chain and Logistics at Walmart and a co-founder of Jet.com, which was acquired by Walmart in September 2016. Nate manages teams across inventory management, fulfillment, network strategy and optimization, operations engineering, and inbound and outbound transportation for Walmart US eCommerce to…

Nicolas Garcia


Otto A. Hack

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Finance and Economics

Paul M. Wythes

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Paul Seymour

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics

Paul Stamas

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at General Atlantic
Paul Stamas '04 is a Managing Director at General Atlantic and focuses on investments in the firm's Financial Services and Financial Technology sectors. He has also been active in the firm's Healthcare sector. He co-led or was closely involved in the firm's investments in Align Networks, Insurity, MedExpress, OptionsHouse, and Santander Asset…

Pierfrancesco Beneventano


Qishuo Yin


Rae Yu


Rajita Chandak


Rajiv Sambharya


Ramon van Handel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Joint With PACM

René Carmona


Robert Vanderbei

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rocío Titiunik

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Politics

Ronnie Sircar

Job Titles:
  • Adviser
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering / Department Chair

Scott Pasquini

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at Madison Dearborn Partners

Shambhavi Suryanarayanan


Shange Tang


Shichun Wang


Siddharth Mane


Silu Li


Sofiia Shvaiko


Stefan Clarke


Tabitha Mischler

Job Titles:
  • Event and Communications Specialist

Till Raphael Saenger


Valentin Tissot-Daguette


Vinit Ranjan


Warren Powell


Wei Xiong

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics

William R. Harman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William Underwood


Xiaonan Zhu


Ximing Li


Xin Chen


Yael Mendes

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant & Program Support

Yanjun Liu


Yihan He


Yihong Gu


Yizhan Shu


Yucheng Guo


Yuheng Zheng


Zhixu Tao