Berkeley MFE Blog

Poker, often perceived as a mere card game played in casinos by most, holds a different significance in the realm of quantitative trading. As a student pursuing a Master of Financial Engineering (MFE), Rishi Ku...

Back in November 2022, Jin Kim and Tarek Mohammad, both MFE ‘23, co-founded hyphen labs, a platform for decentralized finance (DeFi) trading. Their company has been accepted into UC Berkeley SkyDeck and was the...

Yang Guo graduated from the Berkeley Haas Master of Financial Engineering (MFE) Program in 2012, but his journey was far from linear. During his undergraduate studies, he doubled major in economics and biology....

We love visits from our alumni and we were so happy to see just last Friday MFE06 Eugene Lee with his wife, new baby and his colleague and MFE alumnus Guanghua Cao whom Eugene recently hired to work at his firm...

Many students and alumni want to work in Fintech and often ask me what advice I can give them. I recommend engaging in new coursework in programming (Python, R, C++), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligenc...

The MFE Program at the Haas School of Business consistently brings industry projects to its students in addition to the built-in internship opportunity. In fact, MFE17 students Arsh Sood (above, right) and Aman...

Si Chen, MFE class of 2012, interned at Morgan Stanley in New York during her year in the program. She now works full-time with the firm leading a small team trading dollar rates options. “It was the natural ch...

Before coming to the Berkeley MFE, Rodrigo Nunez held Bachelor's degrees in Economics and Actuarial Science from ITAM, a top university in Mexico. After working for a few years in Mexico City at Deutsche Bank a...