Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan - CFEM

10/21/2026

Join us for the next CFEM and UBS AI & Data Research Seminar with guest speaker Rubens Baiocchi of Kalshi! This virtual talk will take place on Thursday, Oct. 29th, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm ET. We look forward to his presentation on Prediction Markets from the Inside: How Accurate Are They?

10/14/2026

The Alumni Round Robin held on September 24th was a resounding success! Read more about how our alumni from many different years mentored the current class:

This fall, the annual CFEM Alumni Round Robin transformed a student lounge in the heart of Midtown into a hub of finance industry career advice and conversation. More than 20 CFEM alumni from the classes of 2011 through 2025 sat throughout the room, grouped at tables by type of work they do.

10/08/2026

Our first CFEM and UBS AI & Data Research Seminar of the semester is coming up next Thursday, Oct. 15th! Jan Vecer joins us from Charles University in Prague, and his topic of discussion is "The Price of Having Been Right: Capital Lock-in in Prediction Markets."

The Zoom webinar will run from 6:30pm to 7:30pm ET. Please register and find all event details on our website:

Register Now The Price of Having Been Right: Capital Lock-In in Prediction Markets I study the behavior of agents in prediction markets with transaction costs. Agents use fractional-Kelly strategies based on competing probabilistic forecasts. In the frictionless benchmark, prices are wealth-weighted...

09/21/2026

The Fall 2026 semester is fully underway! Last week, we had another successful run of our annual Future of Finance Conference. Held in collaboration with our sponsor Alexander Fleiss (Rebellion Research), the conference had a turnout of 300+ young finance professionals, industry veterans, students, and more. CFA Institute also held interviews with CFEM Director Victoria Averbukh Kulikov and Visiting Lecturer Andrew Chin.

It was a fantastic kickoff, and we look forward to hosting more events!

07/30/2026

reposted from Cornell ORIE:

Congratulations to Marcos Lopez de Prado, professor of practice in Cornell Duffield College of Engineering and a pioneer in financial machine learning, on his election as an international member of Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering (Real Academia de Ingeniería)!

Marcos López de Prado, professor of practice in Cornell Duffield College of Engineering and a pioneer in financial machine learning, has been elected an international member of Spain's Royal Academy of Engineering (Real Academia de Ingeniería), one of the nation's highest scientific distinctions.

06/23/2026

Congratulations to Arturo Carrillo '96, M.Eng '97, on being elected to the Cornell University Board of Trustees! Arturo was in a very early cohort of the Financial Engineering concentration.

Arturo Carrillo ’96, M.Eng. ’97 has been elected by his fellow Cornell alumni to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Before his election to the Board, Carrillo had spent decades strengthening his connection to Cornell through volunteer leadership and alumni service.

04/27/2026

Join us next Tuesday, May 5th, at 12pm ET for the last CFEM and UBS seminar of the semester! Our speaker is Ruslan Tepelyan of Bloomberg, and his presentation is titled "Efficient Multivariate Kelly Optimization Reveals Sigmoidal Scaling Laws."

Learn more about his topic and how to register at the event link below:

This event is free and open to all (RSVP ↗). You will receive the webinar link from [email protected] upon registration. Title: Efficient Multivariate Kelly Optimization Reveals Sigmoidal Scaling Laws Abstract: For a sequence of binary bets, the Kelly criterion provides a closed-form solution that ...