Miscellaneous

• Activities
  • I served as co-organizer the Behavioral Finance Reading Group for Fall 2023
  • I am actively involved with the Paideia Institute
  • I serve on the Booth Standing Committee on PhD Climate, 2023-2024
  • I play for the UChicago Intercollegiate Chess Team

• Software
  • I coded up a Twitter bot, @EveryFredGraph, that tweets every graph from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) data series. [Note: unfortunately this was shut down when Twitter blocked bots and Heroku started charging money to deploy web apps]
  • I coded up a “free bet” converter to convert free bet promotions into risk-free payouts, given transaction costs and margin constraints. (See this post for a high-level overview)
  • I coded up an interactive plot for visualizing the career trajectories (peak, longevity) of various ATP men’s tennis players. Here is the better looking but less dynamic static version.

• Writing
  • I host my personal blog, Blog-Normal, on a substack
  • I coauthor a newsletter, Better Know a Dataset, with Simon Oh.
  • I wrote some notes on solving Black-Scholes

• Teaching
  • PhD:
    • Corporate Finance I (Doug Diamond & Zhiguo He)
    • Asset Pricing II (Stefan Nagel & Ralph Koijen)
  • MBA:
    • Portfolio Management (Lubos Pastor)
    • Advanced Investments (Stefan Nagel)
    • Behavioral Finance (Sam Hartzmark)
  • Undergraduate:
    • Corporate Finance (Constantine Yannelis)