Accounting
Kun Qian
Bio forthcoming
Lin Xie
Lin holds a MSc in Finance and Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BBA in Accounting and Finance with minor in Applied Mathematics from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining Columbia Business School, he worked as a Research Assistant in several projects during his master and undergraduate study. His primary interest is in asset pricing but also enjoys working in other research areas in accounting, finance and economics. He is proficient with R and Stata, and is familiar with Python.
Sunho Yoo
Bio forthcoming
Decision, Risk, and Operations (DRO)
Patrick Wu
Bio forthcoming
Economics
Sergio Florez
Sergio completed his MA in Economics at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) in April 2021 and joined the Economics division at Columbia Business School in July 2021. Sergio is originally from Bogota, Colombia. During his time at Uniandes, he worked as an RA for various professors in topics related to development finance, macroeconomics, and education. Before joining CBS, Sergio also worked as a Research Associate at Innovations for Poverty Action where he participated in the empirical evaluation of a security policy intervention in Cali, Colombia. He is interested in the areas of international finance and monetary policy. In his master’s thesis, he addressed the role of international currencies in the international transmission of monetary policy. Sergio is proficient in STATA, R and Matlab, and is currently learning Python.
Kerry Neitzel
Bio Forthcoming
Ryan Santos
Bio Forthcoming
Finance
Gokul Ganesh
Gokul received a B. Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (India) in 2018. After graduation, he worked as a junior analyst with JPMorgan Chase with its Global Trade & Exotic Products team for almost two years. In December 2021, he earned a master’s degree in financial engineering from UCLA Anderson School of Management, receiving an award for academic excellence. During his time at Anderson, he worked part-time as a graduate student researcher on two projects in labor economics & political economics with faculty at Anderson. His interests lie in the field of international finance, developmental finance, public finance & monetary policy. He is proficient in R, Python, and is familiar with STATA. Gokul plans to pursue a PhD in finance and economics in the future.
Management
Open position (apply here)
Marketing
Open position (apply here)
Milstein Center (Real Estate Finance)
Declan Mirabella
Declan joined the Milstein Center after graduating in 2021 with an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics with a focus on monetary economics. He earned a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Georgetown University, summa cum laude. During his time at Georgetown, Declan wrote his senior economics thesis on the effect of gaining internet access on borrower's mortgage rates, as well as a mathematics thesis on graph theory and configurations. During the summer of 2019, he also worked as an intern at Chatham Financial, assisting them in trading derivatives. At Georgetown, Declan also helped maintain, clean and analyze ecological databases as an RA for a biology lab for two years. Declan's current focus is on real estate finance, particularly residential mortgages. He is proficient in R and Stata and has a working knowledge of Python.
Luofeng Zhou
Luofeng holds a BA in Economics, a BS in Mathematics and a BEng in Computer Science from Wuhan University (China) and an MS in Financial Engineering from Columbia University. As an undergrad, he was studied causal inference theory and its application in social science. He also worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University (China), where he started to work on the intersection of AI and finance. He continued to explore this research direction during his master's study, both independently and together with faculty members at Columbia Business School. He is proficient in Python and Java, and is familiar with STATA and MATLAB.