Alumni Hear Kou Speak on Market Trends
Associate Professor Steven Kou of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research was the invited speaker at a special event hosted by the School’s Engineering Annual Fund. The reception, the final one to be held this fiscal year, was at the Rock Center Café in New York’s Rockefeller Center.
The event provided an opportunity for alumni guests to meet and speak with Dr. Kou, SEAS Interim Dean Gerald Navratil, and SEAS students in an informal setting. Dr. Kou spoke about the current financial turmoil and his related research on modeling collateralized debt obligations in today’s markets and answered questions from the audience. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia and taught at Rutgers and the University of Michigan before coming to SEAS in 1998.
The Engineering Annual Fund supports need-blind admissions for undergraduates, fellowships for the best graduate students, recruitment and retention of top faculty, enhancements to lab facilities, and breakthrough research.
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