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Sasha Stoikov is a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University's Department of Financial Engineering, located in Manhattan. He is the son of a professor in Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell. Stoikov holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin. His professional background includes experience in the financial services industry, having worked as a consultant at Galleon Group and as a Vice President in the High Frequency Trading group at Cantor Fitzgerald. In addition to his research role, Stoikov has served as an instructor at the Courant Institute of New York University and as a lecturer at Columbia University's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department. His research interests are primarily in market microstructure, the impact of market incompleteness on optimal strategies for stock option traders, and quantitative finance, focusing on models of volatility and limit order book dynamics.
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