News

September 18, 2025

Hezhong advanced to candidacy on September 18.

July 1, 2025

Pleased to be awarded a new grant from the NSF AMPS program. This is a 3-year project together with Ruimeng Hu (UCSB Math/PSTAT), starting on July 1, 2025.

March 13, 2025

New 150 page book by Mike Ludkovski and Jimmy Risk is now available online

December 10, 2024

Congratulations to Emre Duzoylum who advanced to candidacy on December 10. Emre's project "On Implied Volatility" is studying probabilistic models for constructing implied volatility surfaces based on bid/ask quotes.

December 5, 2024

Dr. Qiqi Li is the newest alum of our group after a successful defense on December 5. Her committee also included Profs. Ruimeng Hu and Mengyang Gu. 

October 1, 2024

Mike Ludkovski and Igor Cialenco (Illinois Tech) awarded a new NSF Applied Mathematics collaborative grant on stochastic modeling of groundwater management. The project started 9/1/2024 and will continue for 3 years. 

July 11, 2024

Mike Ludkovski selected as the Bachelier Lecturer (keynote plenary) at the 2024 Bachelier Finance Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

May 24, 2024

Olivier passed his advancement to PhD candidacy presentation/exam on May 21 on the topic of "Distribution Grid Uncertainty Modelling using Bayesian Optimization". Congrats!

May 21, 2024

Guillermo Terren-Serrano and Mike Ludkovski are presenting their work on operational risk in day-ahead planning at the Technical Showcase at the 2024 ARPA-E Summit in Dallas.