Tepper School of Business
Meet Our Current Students 2008
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Nathaniel Huang obtained his BS in Chemistry and BA in Economics from Peking University. He joined the MSCF program in order to transfer his skills in math and scientific research to real-world finance. His current work focuses on the quantitative assessment of equity buyback strategies. Upon completing the program, Nathaniel is looking to apply his expertise in the areas of portfolio management, derivative pricing, and trading. In his spare time, Nathaniel likes classical music, fishing, history and skiing. |
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Peng Huang earned his Masters in Computer Engineering from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His academic achievement (3rd Place in National College Student Science-Technology Competition) helped him to land a position at Bell Labs where he served as a major C++ software engineer in a globalized team to build Lucent's industry leading billing system. Two years later, Peng joined Sun Microsystems China Engineering and Research Institute (ERI), where he served as team leader and main developer in project JDesktop Integration Components and J2EE projects. Peng was honored as Sun's ERI star 2006 (12 out of 400) as "someone with excellent combination of IQ & EQ – smart, professional, and a great team player." Upon graduation, Peng would like to take a position in financial modeling or quantitative trading. |
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Anurag Jain received a BE in Information Science & Engineering from Visveswariah University, Bangalore. Prior to joining the MSCF program at Tepper, he worked at Fidelity Investments as a financial software developer. At Fidelity, he was part of a team that built an application to assimilate, consolidate and validate all mutual fund activity on a daily basis. His passion for the financial markets coupled with his quest to leverage his quantitative and programming skills led him to join the Computational Finance program. Upon graduation, Anurag would like to pursue a career in trading or research. In his spare time, Anurag enjoys travelling, cooking and socializing. |
| Jihoon Ko graduated with a BS degree in Nuclear Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.) He has been in the financial industry for three years and has completed his CFA Level III. At WiseFn, he was responsible for providing equity analysts and traders with customized data and solutions in finding influential factors on stock prices and general financial markets. At Quantwise, an asset management company focused on quantitative investment strategies, he co-managed the firm’s portfolio with several strategies including put/call ratios, de-coupling events with global markets, investors’ activities.. He also developed an option simulator which simulated conceptual strategies minute-by-minute in the derivatives markets to measure risk exposures and evaluate performance. He joined the MSCF program to reinforce his quantitative skills for pricing complex derivatives. During the summer, he will work for Lehman Brothers, Hong Kong as an equity structurer. |  |
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Illhwan Kwak graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. During his undergraduate study, he utilized his expertise in programming and statistics by working part time as a software engineer and statistical analyst for several different companies in Korea. Illhwan has also managed a team at a software company for threeyears and led the development of two award winning softwares, which have more than two million users worldwide. Upon completion of the MSCF program, Illhwan seeks to combine his quantitative background and finance knowledge learned through the MCSF program to pursue a career in quantitative trading or analysis. |
| Kenneth Lam graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering. He joined TD Asset Management in Toronto to be part of their portfolio analytics team, working closely with active fixed income and equity portfolio managers in facilitating portfolio construction, major portfolio restructuring, and developing quantitative strategies. During his three years with TDAM he completed his CFA Level III. He came to MSCF to increase his quantitative knowledge of complex derivative products. This summer, Ken will be joining Goldman Sachs in their Sales & Trading summer rotational program. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, ball hockey, squash, and skiing. |  |
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Doug Leonhardt graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS in mathematics. After graduation, Doug joined Hewitt Associates in Atlanta and worked in several different roles involving pension plans, actuarial science, and technology project management. At Hewitt, Doug was the leader of a quantitative software development group consisting of programmers and quality assurance analysts focused on automating pension calculations and retirement modeling, earning the Hewitt Associates National Manager Effectiveness Recognition Program Award in 2005. Clients include Duke Energy, Bank of America, GlaxoSmithKline, American Red Cross, and Northern Trust. Doug is currently pursuing the dual MBA/MSCF degree at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as the treasurer of the Tepper School’s Graduate Finance Association. This summer, Doug will intern at Standish, the fixed income specialty boutique of BNY Mellon Asset Management. Doug enjoys following North Carolina basketball and Atlanta Braves baseball. |
| Deborah Leung graduated from Columbia University with a BS in Computer Science. Since that time, she has worked at JP Morgan Chase on trading desk technologies. After three years of developing a global program trading platform with order execution and portfolio analytics capabilities, Deborah moved to the FX options Risk Management group to work on risk management measures on the Murex platform. Deborah also worked in the Equity Derivatives Proprietary Trading Technologies group, concentrating on convertible products. The MSCF curriculum complements her industry experience with knowledge in finance and mathematics. Upon graduation, Deborah plans to continue her career in the financial services industry. Deborah is a CFA Level II candidate. |  |
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Ying Liu earned her Bachlors from the University of Toronto in Actuarial Science with High Distinct Honors. During her time at the University, Ying completed three Society of Actuary (SOA) Exams, including Probability and Mathematics Exam, Financial Mathematics Exam and Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models Exam. In the third year summer, she interned in IBM China within the Marketing and Tele-communication Sector where she was involved in data collecting and analysis. In her spare time, she Ying enjoys hiking, traveling and dancing salsa. |
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