Adji Bousso Dieng, Ph.D. in Statistics 2019
Current title: Assistant Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University

Career Highlights:

• Generative modeling branch of machine learning expert
• First Black female faculty member in the history of SEAS and the first Black faculty member ever in the Department of Computer Science (COS) at Princeton University
• AI Researcher at Google Brain
  

Yixin Wang, Ph.D. in Statistics 2019
Current title: LSA Collegiate Fellow, University of Michigan

“My research centers around developing practical and trustworthy machine learning algorithms for large datasets that can enhance scientific understandings and inform daily decision-making.”

Amal Moussa, Ph.D. in Statistics 2011
Equity Derivatives Trader, Goldman Sachs

“I currently work as a derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs where I am in charge of trading and risk managing equity exotic options and structured products on US stocks.”

“During my Ph.D. I studied contagion and systemic risk in financial networks to highlight the importance of the network structure in identifying systemic financial institutions and formulating regulatory policies.

“The Ph.D. program offered me the possibility to work with experts in the fields of Statistics and Financial Mathematics through a diverse range of classes and research projects, and most importantly gave me the opportunity to meet and collaborate with amazing classmates and faculty.”

Johannes Ruf, Ph.D. in Statistics 2011
Current title: Assistant Professor, London School of Economics

Career Highlights

• First Annual Morgan Stanley Prize for Excellence in Financial Markets (dissertation prize)
• Bruti-Liberati Fellowship: For visiting the Economics and Finance Department of University of Technology, Sydney and for giving the Bruti-Liberati Lecture at the QMF Conference (December 2013).
• Senior Research Fellow, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford, 2011-2014
• Ph.D. at Columbia Statistics = Learning insights in Statistics and Probability from an excellent, very motivated faculty and from fellow students, making friends for life, experiencing NYC.

Tyler H. McCormick, Ph.D. in Statistics 2011
Current title: Associate Professor of Statistics & Sociology, Senior Data Science Fellow, University of Washington
 
 Career Highlights:

• NIH K01 Career Development Award
• US Army Young Investigator Program Award
• Google Faculty Award