Prof. Charles Tapiero: Finance, which is really a means and it's not demand, has to service the people that
it's supposed to serve, which is really
the world.
Prof. Charles Tapiero: What we are, we engineer the future of finance.
Prof. Maggie Copeland: Over the year, I don't allow for my people work with me, they come from engineer
background. But they bring to me their knowledge,
for example, machine learning and I try to teach them how to put
that into the thinking of trading.
Prof. Agnes Tourin: We strike this balance between academic courses and very practical courses.
Prof. Peter Carr: We're essentially de-emphasizing older disciplines such as corporate finance
and re-emphasizing newer things such as
artificial intelligence and deep neural
networks and how they can be used in
investing.
Prof. Andrew Arnold: So, in the course, students will be
exposed to the state of the art, the latest literature,
the latest techniques, both from academia and from
industry. So we'll look at places like what Google and
Facebook and those kinds of places are doing, and also
some of the latest techniques from industry.
Prof. Andrew Papanicolaou: We prepare 
the students for
the workforce by giving them a set of skills that
make them
marketable as quants both in the banking industry and
the hedge fund industry.
Prof. Barry Blecherman: The number of different things
that aren't necessarily related to each other,
and we here,
we try to expose you and give you the opportunity to
grab onto all of those things.
Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Risk management cannot
be possibly separated from practice.
Sara Tomeo: Our students are fortunate in that
they have
career resources, not just through the NYU Weisserman
Career Center, but also directly through our department,
through my position here.
The FRE career prep experience really starts on the day
that the students walk through the doors.
They start with a robust set of FRE career prep workshops
and begin to receive resume and recruiting guidance right away.
Prof. Agnes Tourin: The students need to take
advantage of all the resources that we offer, they
need to
come talk to us, the faculty, and also they need to talk to
the TAs, the GAs, and also the staff.
Prof. Andrew Papanicolaou: What a student can expect coming in is that
they can hone their skills and challenge themselves,
and then coming out they'll be marketable as quants
in a competitive industry where challenging yourself
and being interested in solving hard problems.
Prof. Agnes Tourin: Our students are extremely successful
and find excellent jobs. They do so because
they are genuinely sharp and hardworking and social
Prof. Peter Carr: I actually have two former students
who each won a trading game I held that they both
went to, and later started their own. It's now a very
big hedge fund. It kind of all started because they took
the time to try to apply what they were learning.
Prof. Charles Tapiero: A great deal of success depends
on your ability to sell your ideas. Of course, there are
very bright minds in the world of finance, very capable.
But that's not enough. What they have also to
understand is that finance relates to people.
Prof. Barry Blecherman: You can't be afraid of stuff,
you have to want to take on challenges.
Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Students who do well are those who have
a clear mind. It's exactly as Warren Buffet said:
"If you don't know who the fool is at the poker table,
you are the fool."
Prof. Andrew Papanicolaou: If you can communicate in a way that is
comprehensible and appeals to their way of
doing things, then you can have some success.
Prof. Barry Blecherman: And we have to be able
to train our students to hear what's happening out there
and translate it into the ability to craft something.
