Dr. Camilo Hernandez

Biography

Camilo Hernández received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Economics from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, in 2013. He then obtained his M.S. in Mathematics in 2015 from the same institution. In 2021, he completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at Columbia University, where he was a Cheung–Kong innovation fellow. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Hernández became a Chapman Fellow in Mathematics at Imperial College London in 2022. He is currently a Presidential Fellow in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department at Princeton University. In 2024, he will take on the role of Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interests focus on the applications of optimal stochastic control in continuous time, contract theory, game theory, time inconsistency, financial mathematics, control theory, backward stochastic differential equations, and convex optimization.

Research Interests