
Faculty
Welcome to our faculty showcase for the U-M Quant program. Led by Program Director Erhan Bayraktar, our faculty forms a dynamic team dedicated to advancing their fields. Explore the profiles below to discover the leaders who drive our program’s pursuit of excellence. Please direct all inquiries to the Quant program at quantfinms@umich.edu.
Program Director

Core Faculty
- Asaf Cohen, Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Ibrahim Ekren, Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Ed Ionides, Professor of Statistics
- Mattias Jonsson, Professor of Mathematics
- Ali Nazari, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Kristen Moore, Associate Professor of Mathematics
- Stilian Stoev, Professor of Statistics
- Moulinath Banerjee, Professor of Statistics
- Brian Thelen, Lecturer in Statistics
- Virginia Young, Professor of Mathematics
- Naisyin Wang, Professor of Statistics
- Ji Zhu, Professor of Statistics
Post-Doctoral Faculty
- Guillermo Alonso Alvarez, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Xihao He, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Jiamin Jian, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Melih Iseri, Postdoctoral Professor of Mathematics
- Nikolaos (Nikos) Kolliopoulos, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Chuhao Sun, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Yuqiong Wang, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
- Fengyi Yuan, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Other Affiliated Faculty
- Jinho Baik, Professor of Mathematics
- Alexander Barvinok, Professor of Mathematics
- Robert Keener, Professor of Statistics
- Liza Levina, Professor of Statistics
- Mark Rudelson, Professor of Mathematics