Carnegie Mellon University

MSCF Steering Committee


The MSCF program is governed by a Steering Committee composed of a senior faculty member from each of the four participating colleges and an executive director. Program and curriculum modifications are made by the Steering Committee after gathering input from various sources, including students, employers, MSCF alumni, and the MSCF Advisory Board, among others.

Robert S. Simon
MSCF Executive Director
(center)

Lars-Alexander Kuehn
Tepper School of Business 
Associate Professor of Finance
(second from right)

Martin Larsson
Mellon College of Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
(far right)

John Lehoczky  
Thomas Lord University Professor Emeritus
Ex Officio
(not pictured)

Chad Schafer
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Statistics & Data Science
Professor
(second from left)

Andrew Wasser
Heinz College
Associate Dean, School of Information Systems and Management
(far left)

MSCF Advisory Board 2023 - 2024

  • Leif Andersen
    Managing Director, Bank of America
  • Tony Berkman
    Managing Director, Two Sigma
  • Sebastian Ceria
    Chief Executive Officer, Qontigo
  • Jennika Gold Thomas
    Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder, Isle Data
  • Peter Guan
    Managing Director, Voya Investment
  • Keishi Hotsuki
    Chief Risk Officer, Morgan Stanley
  • Roni Israelov
    President and CIO, NDVR
  • Sherry Marcus
    Director, Data Science, Amazon
  • Giuseppe Nuti
    Managing Director, UBS
  • Umesh Subramanian
    Chief Technology Officer, Citadel
  • Manuela Veloso
    Head, Artificial Intelligence Research, J.P. Morgan
  • Chetan Vohra
    Senior Managing Director, Cerberus Capital Management

MSCF Alumni Board 2024 - 2025

  • Stephen Cash
    Co-Founder, Seven Eight Capital
  • Julio Da Graca
    Managing Director, Citi 
  • Steve Doviak
    Managing Director - FXEM, Morgan Stanley
  • Sriram Kannan
    Head of Risk, Silver Point Capital
  • Michael Li
    Managing Director - Global Head of Mortgage Quant and Cross Asset Strat, Bank of America
  • Yumi Oh
    Senior Business Management Lead, Citadel
  • Anushka Poddar
    Vice President - Equity Derivatives Trader
  • Neel Purohit
    Portfolio Manager, ExodusPoint Capital Management
  • Santiago Quinterro Serrano
    Vice President - Corporate Derivatives, Goldman Sachs
  • Alex Shi
    Quantitative Researcher, Jump Trading
  • Xingyao Sun
    Associate Portfolio Manager, Balyasny Asset Management
  • Cynthia Wang
    Board Member, Global CCS Institute