CV
Academic Positions
University of Southern California
2024 - present
Assistant Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics (Joint Appointment)
University of Southern California
2022 - present
Assistant Professor of Clinical Data Science and Operations
Industry Experience
TWG AI
Critical Trading
Thrackle
Capital Group
Education
University of Southern California
2022
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics (defended November 2021)
Dissertation: High-Frequency Kelly Criterion and Fat-Tails: Gambling with an Edge
Advisor: Jianfeng Zhang
External Advisor: Christopher Jones (Finance)
University of California, Irvine
2016
B.S. Mathematics
Awards and Fellowships
USC Marshall School of Business
- Marshall Teaching Excellence Award (2026; one of four recipients across the entire school)
- Van Eck Digital Assets (VEDA) Initiative Research Grant — PI (Spring 2025)
- Golden Apple Award for Graduate Teaching in the MS Business Analytics Core (2024)
USC Dornsife Department of Mathematics (Graduate)
- Theodore Edward Harris Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2022)
- Dornsife Merit-Based Department Fellowship (2021)
UC Irvine Department of Mathematics (Undergraduate)
- Howard Tucker Award in Mathematics
- Track and Field Athletic Scholarship, Phi Beta Kappa, Regent's Scholarship, Mathematical Computational Biology Undergraduate REU
Students
PhD Committee Member & Co-advising
Levon Hakobyan, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Currently 5th-year PhD student (co-advising with Sergey Lototsky, USC Math Dept.)
Benjamin Gillen, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
Currently 4th-year PhD student (co-advising with Gourab Mukherjee, USC DSO Dept.)
James Chen, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics, UCLA
Currently 3rd-year PhD student (co-advising with Mihai Cucuringu, UCLA Math Dept.)
Service
Faculty Advisor, QuantSC
Member, MSBA Board of Advisors — guiding the program's AI transformation
Contributor, curriculum design for Bovard's Online MS in Analytics and AI