5/8/25 | 4:15pm | E51-376

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Ciamac Moallemi

William von Mueffling Professor of Business
Columbia Business School

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Abstract: TBA

Bio: Ciamac C. Moallemi is the William Von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He also develops quantitative trading strategies at Bourbaki LLC, a quantitative investment advisor. A high school dropout, he received SB degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned a Master of Advanced Study degree in Mathematics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) with distinction from the University of Cambridge and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Moallemi developed quantitative methods in a number of entrepreneurial ventures as a partner in a $200 million fixed-income arbitrage hedge fund and as the director of scientific computing at an early-stage drug discovery start-up. He holds editorial positions at the journals Operations Research and Management Science. His research interests are in the area of the optimization and control of large-scale stochastic systems and decision-making under uncertainty with an emphasis on applications in financial engineering.