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Andreea Minca is a Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Sorbonne University and a diploma from Ecole Polytechnique. Minca is an expert in systemic risk within financial networks, focusing her research on financial technologies such as stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and decentralized finance. She actively works on enhancing the resilience of domestic supply chains, which was supported by a 2025 NSF EAGER grant on risk methodology for supply chain networks. Her fundamental contributions to understanding financial instability and managing systemic risk have garnered her several awards, including the 2016 SIAM Activity Group Financial Mathematics Engineering Early Career Prize and the 2017 NSF CAREER Award. Minca serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals, including Mathematical Finance and the European Journal of Operational Research. Her research has been published in leading Financial Mathematics journals and emphasizes network analysis, stochastic analysis, and game theory, underscoring her methodological advances in the field. Additionally, she has received recognition for her teaching excellence in Financial Engineering and Systems Engineering, culminating in the 2024 Sonny Yau '72 Teaching Award.
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