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Jun 6, 2025 My dissertation thesis has been published: Convex Optimization in Quantitative Finance.
Mar 29, 2025 We published a preprint of our manuscript A Tax-Efficient Model Predictive Control Policy for Retirement Funding.
Jan 24, 2025 I gave a talk on Markowitz Portfolio Construction Using CVXPY at BlackRock’s portfolio construction summit.
Dec 11, 2024 I defended my PhD thesis: Convex Optimization in Quantitative Finance.
Nov 16, 2024 We published a preprint of our manuscript Simple and Effective Portfolio Construction with Crypto Assets. (Now published in Crypto Insights and Trends, Competition Policy International, 2025.)
Jun 11, 2024 We published slides illustrating several uses of Convex Optimization in Quantitative Finance .
Jun 8, 2024 We published a preprint of our manuscript A Markowitz Approach to Managing a Dynamic Basket of Moving-Band Statistical Arbitrages .
Mar 21, 2024 I presented our work on covariance prediction in finance at the Fidelity Investments seminar series. The slides are available here.
Dec 24, 2023 We published a preprint of our manuscript Markowitz Portfolio Construction at Seventy. A software package is available on GitHub. (Now published in The Journal of Portfolio Management, 2024.)
Dec 9, 2023 We published a preprint of our manuscript Finding Moving-Band Statistical Arbitrages via Convex-Concave Optimization. (To appear, Optimization and Engineering, 2024.)
Sep 18, 2023 I (successfully) completed my PhD qualifying exam. My slides are available here.
Jul 11, 2023 We published a preprint of our manuscript A Simple Method for Predicting Covariance Matrices of Financial Returns. (Now published in Foundations and Trends in Econometrics, 2023.) A software package is available on GitHub.