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Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

This academic year is a special one for us. We celebrated 20 years and held an alumni reunion and anniversary celebration, excited for what the next 20 years will bring.

  • August 30, 2024: Lyndsay Polking, Early Careers Recruiter, Wells Fargo
  • September 13, 2024: Jonathan Page, Financial Modeling Analyst, State Employees’ Credit Union
  • September 20, 2024: Yu Zhang, Senior Investment Strategist, Vanguard and Daniel Peters, Risk Analyst, First Citizens Bank
  • October 11, 2024: Emmanuel Sanchez, Principal Weather Modeler, CarbonPool
  • October 11, 2024: Financial Mathematics 20th Anniversary and Alumni Reunion
  • October 18, 2024: Anne Murphy, Director, Treasury Capital, ALM Analytics, Charles Schwab
  • October 25, 2024: Sandeep Girada, Quantitative Developer and Tharun Polamarasetty, Assistant Vice President, Barclays
  • November 1, 2024: Kyle Murphy, Research Analyst I, Capital Management Group, First Citizens Bank
  • November 8, 2024: Andrew Wilcox, Senior Manager of Risk Modeling and Heather Morgan, Talent and Culture Specialist, Enact MI
  • November 8, 2024: Virtual Information Session
  • December 6, 2024: Virtual Information Session
  • January 17, 2025: Adam Haller, Senior Trader, Kind Lending
  • January 24 2025: Peyton Boles, Lead FX Analyst, Silicon Valley Bank
  • January 31, 2025: Tori Smith, Lead Human Resources Specialist and Liz Bamford, Senior Associate Actuary, Aspida
  • February 7, 2025: Christopher Fiscella, Quantitative Analyst and UX Engineer, Disent
  • February 14, 2025: Jared Bogacki, Deputy Head of Model Development, Executive Vice President, Truist
  • February 28, 2025: Surya Sashank (GV) Gundepudi, Quantitative Financial Analyst II, Flagstar Bank
  • March 7, 2025: Sonam Raj, Audit Project Manager II, First Citizens Bank
  • March 21, 2025: Chloe Voung Head of Quant Specialists EMEA
  • March 28, 2025: Matthew Lasater, Vice President, Head of Mortgage Credit Modeling, John Hanken, Senior Vice President, Pricing, Kyle Yan, Pricing Analyst, and Premal Patel, Data Scientist, Arch Capital Services LLC.

Fall 2023 – Spring 2024

The year included our first Women in Finance Symposium as well as numerous opportunities for students to engage with industry representatives from a number of financial sectors.

  • September 1st, 2023: Paul Mira, Market Risk Manager, David Bornside, Quantitative and Model Development Analyst, and Brian Bosilijevac, Manager Liquidity and Interest Rate Risk Analytics, PNC
  • September 8th, 2023: Joshua Fogle, Early Careers Program Manager, Ryan Thurston, Quantitative Analytics Associate, and Tanchumin Xu, Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo
  • September 15th, 2023: Women in Finance Symposium.
  • September 22nd, 2023: Moti Konak, Director, Fixed Income & Derivatives Evaluations, LSEG
  • September 29th, 2023: Anna-Maria Foster, Market Strategy Lead, Enterprise Campus Strategy Recruiting, Bank of America
  • October 6th, 2023: Daniel Peters, Treasury Quantitative Lead, M&T Bank
  • October 20th-22nd, 2023: 7th Annual Eastern Conference on Mathematical Finance
  • October 27th, 2023: Mathieu Picard, Director, Financial Planning & Analysis & Chief Actuary, Enact Holdings Inc.
  • November 3rd, 2023: Alex Tunnell, Associate Director, GRM Technology at RBC Capital Markets
  • November 10th, 2023: Rafael Otero, Cheif Information Officer, Deutsche Bank
  • November 17th, 2023: Thomas Panasiewicz, Director of FRG Academy, Financial Risk Group
  • January 19, 2024: Naman Goel, Associate Vice President, Market and Trading, State Street
  • January 26, 2024: Anshumaan Gandhi, Quantitative Trading Analyst, Chicago Trading Company
  • February 2, 2024: Yuhong Fu, Senior Associate, JP Morgan Chase
  • February 9, 2024: Matt Puksta, eFX Trader, Silicon Valley Bank
  • February 16, 2024: Kristina Martin, Principal Data Scientist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Mehul Mehta, Manager, Risk Modeling, Charles Schwab
  • February 23, 2024: Bella McHenry, HR Specialist, Matt Lasater, Vice President of Data Analytics, Premal Patel, Data Analyst, and Kyle Yan, Pricing Analyst, Arch Mortgage
  • March 8, 2024: Ronald Funderburk, Investment Director, Credit and Inflation, NC Department of State Treasurer, Retirement Systems Division and Pav Sethi, Chief Investment Officer, Gladius Capital Management LP
  • March 22, 2024: Venkatesh Nayak, Associate Portfolio Analytics Group, Blackrock
  • March 29, 2024: Larry Goldberg, Director, Market Intelligence, S&P Global

Fall 2022 – Spring 2023

Our students participated in a networking luncheon with Bank of America and hosted several information sessions with representatives from national and global financial institutions, including SAS, Wells Fargo, and S&P Global, just to name a few.

  • September 9th, 2022: Orlando Camargo, Talent Acquisition Consultant, Bank of America
  • September 16th, 2022: Ana Leyden, Pricing Actuary, Aspida
  • September 23rd, 2022: Erica Isabella, Analytics Translator & Data Scientist, McKinsey & Co. & Joshua Johnstone, Research Statistician Developer, SAS
  • September 30th, 2022: Kayla Churchey Lively, University Relationship Manager, Fifth Third Bank
  • October 7, 2022: Kit Cam, Campus Relationship Manager, Wells Fargo
  • October 14, 2022: Alexandra Barbacane, Assistant Vice President, University Relations Recruiter, Truist
  • October 21, 2022: Meghan Makarczuk, Campus Recruiter, EY
  • October 28, 2022: Richard O’Connell, Credit Suisse, Interm Head of Risk for Investment Banking
  • November 4, 2022: Molly Leonard, Millennium Advisors
  • November 11, 2022: Sarah Pendry, Talent Development Manger, Arch Mortgage Insurance
  • November 18, 2022: Dendi Suhubdy, Chief Executive Officer, Bitwyre
  • January 20th, 2023: Rohit Khurana, Associate Director, Crisil Global Research & Risk Solutions
  • January 27th, 2023: Katherine Taylor, Climate Risk Specialist, Freddie Mac
  • February 3rd, 2023: Garrett Mills, Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America
  • February 10th, 2023: Jean-Pierre Fouque, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Mixed Mean Field Control Games
  • February 17th, 2023: Rick Carter, Vice President, National General Insurance
  • February 24th, 2023: James Stephens, Former Vice President, J.P. Morgan
  • March 3rd, 2023: Abhijay Shukla, Senior Associate, PwC & Mehul Mehta, Assistant Vice President, Regions Bank
  • March 10th, 2023: Albert Hopping, Lead Product Manager, SAS
  • March 24th, 2023: Tatjana Xenio Puhan, Managing Director, Deputy CIO & Head of Investment Management, TOBAM
  • March 31, 2023: Colleen McCarthy, Vice President Financial Risk Analytics, State Employee Credit Union
  • April 14, 2023: Yao Song, Vice President, Balance Sheet Management, Local Government Federal Credit Union

Fall 2021 – Spring 2022

We welcomed back several alum and industry practitioners who presented their industry knowledge to our students including McKinsey, First Citizens Bank, and S&P Global.

  • September 10th, 2021: Zach Small, Associate Vice President of Enterprise Scenario Generation and Leonard Li, Director of Enterprise Risk Management at Bank of America
  • September 17th, 2021: Tracey Tullie, Managing Director for Quantitative Analytics at Wells Fargo
  • September 24th, 2021: Anqui Zou, Sr. Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Leader for Enterprise Technology at Truist Bank.
  • October 1st, 2021: Mike Hepinstall, Partner for FSQA at Oliver Wyman, Lukas Widera, Principal for FSQA at Oliver Wyman, Shiny Zhang, Associate for FSQA at Oliver Wyman, and Ian Lipman, Sr. Analyst for FSQA at Oliver Wyman
  • October 15th, 2021: Deepak Punjabi, Senior Quantitative Analyst – Model Development at TD Bank
  • October 22nd, 2021: Rohit Khurana, Associate Director – Risk Advisory at S&P’s Crisil Global Research & Risk Solutions
  • November 12th, 2021: Willies Mboko, Senior Actuarial Analyst at Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.
  • January 28th, 2022: Samuel Knox, Software Developer & Risk Specialist at SAS Analytics
  • February 4th, 2022: Daniel Peters, Financial Modelling Analyst at State Employees Credit Union (SECU).
  • February 11th, 2022: Erica Isabella, Analytics Specialist at McKinsey & Co.
  • February 18th, 2022: Harry Yu, Senior Consultant at Deloitte
  • March 4th, 2022: Larry Goldberg, Director, Market Intelligence at S&P Global
  • March 11th, 2022: Andrew Wilcox, Senior Manager of Risk Modeling, Enact Mortgage Insurance
  • March 25th, 2022: Cagatay Karen PhD, FRM, AVP, Model Validation Manager, First Citizens Bank
  • April 1st, 2022: Dimitri Bianco, FRM, Founder, Fancy Quant, Public Speaker
  • April 8th, 2022: Thomas Panasiewicz, Director of FRG Academy, FRG and Nishang Guan, NEET Trainee, FRG

Fall 2020 – Spring 2021

We continued to provide students a full year of engagement with industry leaders and representatives, as we navigated the impacts due to the Covid pandemic.

  • August 21st, 2020: Career Workshop by Dr. Paul Miceli, Organizational Learning and Development Manager, Genworth Financial
  • August 28th 2020: Presentation by Cagatay Karan, AVP, First Citizens Bank
  • September 2nd, 2020: Career Workshop by Dr. Wesley Wade, NCSU Career Development Center
  • September 11th, 2020: Presentation by Amoolya Prakash, First Citizens Bank
  • September 25th, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Yuhong Fu, Citibank
  • September 30th, 2020:  MFM Roundtable with Daniel Peters, State Employees’ Credit Union
  • October 2nd, 2020: Presentation by Brad Eccles, Head of US Structuring Commodity Derivatives, Munich Re
  • October 8th, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Juman Ahmed, Federal Reserve Bank
  • October 15th, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Kartheek Manavarthi, First Citizen Bank
  • October 22nd, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Pengfei Xiong, Citi Group
  • October 28th, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Maria Emilia Calderon, Mazars, UK
  • October 30th, 2020: Information Session
  • November 5th, 2020: MFM Roundtable with Joshua Johnstone, SAS
  • January 29th, 2021: Rick Carter, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Analytics at National General Insurance
  • February 5th 2021: Daniela DiMaggio, State Employees Credit Union, heading the capital planning and stress test department
  • February 12th, 2021: Jared Bogacki, Executive Vice President in charge of model development supporting Truist’s Corporate Treasury
  • February 26th, 2021: Mathieu Picard, Senior Director for Modeling and Actuarial at Genworth Mortgage Insurance
  • February 26th, 2021: Wes Wade, Presentation about tools and resources available to students through the career development center.
  • March 12th, 2021: MFM Roundtable with Deepak Kumar, Deepak Punjabi and Tanmay Shah from U.S. Bank, Credit Suisse and Zions Bancorporation respectively.
  • March 12th, 2021: Cory West, Market Risk Senior Officer and leads the Municipal Products Group Market Risk Oversight team at Wells Fargo.
  • March 19th, 2021: Rhonda Smith, Director of Public Equity and Hedge Fund Strategies at the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer.
  • March 26th, 2021: Yao Song, Vice President of Financial Risk at Local Government Federal Credit Union.
  • April 2nd, 2021: Larry Goldberg, Financial Corporate Advisory Director at IHS Markit.
  • April 7th, 2021: MFM Roundtable with Garret Mills, Assistant vice president for corporate investments at Bank Of America.
  • April 9, 2021: Information Session

Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

The impact from Covid in the spring did not keep us from providing our students the opportunity for invaluable engagement with industry leaders in finance.

  • July 29-August 16, 2019: FM Preparation Workshop
  • August 15, 2019: FM Research Seminar, by Prof. Indranil SenGupta, Dept. of Mathematics, North Dakota State University
  • August 16, 2019: FM Summer Project presentations Workshop
  • August 20, 2019: FM New Student Orientation
  • August 23rd-24th, 2019: Get Hired Workshop by Robert Hellmann and Donna Poudrier
  • Sept 13, 2019: Presentation by Joe Zweier, FRM,  Financial Engineer at SECU(State Employees Credit Union): “Accelerating DFAST Modeling via Genetic Algorithms
  • Sept 20, 2019: Presentation by Jean-Pierre Fouque,  Co-Director of Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research at UC Santa Barbara: “Stochastic Games with Delays: A Toy Model”
  • Sept 27, 2019: Bank of America Information Session by Abigail Roberson, Vijay Tanwar, Yanglin Yu, and Zachary Small
  • October 4, 2019:  NC State Financial Math Alumni Reunion 2019
  • October 10, 2019:  Financial Math Alumni Reunion 2019 at NYC
  • Nov 8, 2019: Career Workshop by Yao Song, Vice President, Financial Risks at Local Federal Government Credit Union
  • Nov 11, 2019: Guest Lecture by Dr. Maxim Bichuch, from John Hopkins University on  “Robust XVA
  • Nov 15, 2019: Career Workshop by Credit Suisse Team – John Viegas, Director, Global Head Settlements & Cash Mgmt Oversight & Control and Rahul Nath, Vice President, Trade Settlement Systems
  • Dec 18, 2019: FM Winter Project Workshop  and Reception for Graduating Students
  • January 24th, 2020: Career Workshop by Dr. Paul Miceli, Organizational Learning and Development Manager, Genworth Financial
  • January 31st, 2020:  Career Workshop by Angie Mu, Frank Thomas, Majid Zyai and Yahui Bai, Truist (formerly BB&T and SunTrust Bank)
  • February 7th, 2020: Career Workshop by Cagatay Karan, Senior Model Validation Analyst, First Citizens Bank
  • February 14th, 2020:Python Workshop by FM Ambassador Jason Chitla
  • February 28th, 2020: Python Workshop by FM Ambassador Jason Chitla
  • March 6th, 2020: FM Workshop “CCAR and CECL: An Analytic Comparison”
  • March 27th, 2020: SAS Professional Presentation Skills Workshop, by program alumni Samuel Knox and Joshua Johnstone

Spring 2019

Our students enjoyed the opportunity to learn from industry representatives, including Credit Suisse, Genworth and Financial Risk Group.

  • Jan. 9-11, 2019: Career Coach Training
  • Jan. 17, 2019: Paypal On Campus Recruiting.
  • Jan. 18, 2019: Presentation by Neekis Hammond, CPA, Managing Director, Segworks, Inc.
  • Feb. 1, 2019: Presentation by Atul Kapoor, Director, Genworth.
  • Feb. 8, 2019: Presentation by Cagatay Karan, AVP, First Citizens Bank.
  • Feb. 15, 2019: Career Panel by  Shinese Bennett (First Citizen Bank), Ratnakar Chitturi (Credit Suisse), John Hanna (Credit Suisse), Albert Hopping (SAS), Tianhao Liu (Financial Risk Group), Ram Valluru (Genworth)
  • Mar. 1, 2019: Presentation by Erica Isabella, Senior Analytics Fellow at McKinsey & Company: The Importance of a Personal Brand in Finding the Right Job
  • Mar. 4, 2019: Presentation by Marshall Titch on Professional Email and Task Management
  • Mar. 7, 2019: Presentation by Paul Staneski: Surviving and Thriving in a Wall Street Interview
  • Mar. 22, 2019: Presentation by Joshua Johnstone and Samuel Knox from SAS
  • Apr. 6, 2019: Yao Song, Local Federal Government Credit Union
  • Apr. 11-12, 2019: NC State CECL and Credit Risk Modeling Summit