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January 21, 2025
Robert Whaley Selected as the Recipient of the 2024 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year Award January 21, 2025 – NEW YORK CITY – The International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF) and Northfield Information Services have named Robert E. Whaley, the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Finance and Director of the Hans Stoll Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt University, as the 2024 IAQF/Northfield Financial Engineer of the Year (FEOY). The award will be presented to Professor Whaley at a celebration in New York City in the spring of 2025. Read the full press release here. March 5, 2025 Lisa L. Huang, Managing Director at Fidelity Labs, Selected as the Recipient of the 2024 IAQF Innovation Award March 5th, 2025 – NEW YORK CITY – The International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF) has named Dr. Lisa L. Huang, Managing Director, Fidelity Labs, as the winner of the 2024 IAQF Innovation Award. The award will be presented to Dr. Huang at a celebration at the Yale Club in New York City in on May 22nd, 2025. Read the full press release here. |
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 | Francis A. Longstaff Francis A. Longstaff is the Allstate Professor of Insurance and Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is a CFA and a CPA and has extensive Wall Street experience. His research interests focus primarily on fixed income markets, derivatives markets and valuation theory, computational finance, the impact of illiquidity of security valuation, credit risk, and the role of arbitrage in financial markets. Many of his valuation models have been used widely on Wall Street and throughout the global financial markets. He has served as a consultant for many Wall Street firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, commercial banks and other financial institutions, software developers and risk management firms, as well as in litigation support. He is a frequent speaker at practitioner seminars and conferences. |