Mehdi Ashraphijuo

Mehdi Ashraphijuo (Medi Ash) is an Iranian-American mathematician, financial risk manager, academic and writer, residing in New York City. Professor Ash is currently a Vice President & Executive Director at Goldman Sachs and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. He is a CFA and FRM charter-holder. In addition, he is a Board Member at Business Advisory Board of School For Business at Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY).
Dr. Ash completed a PhD in the area of information theory at Columbia University in the City of New York. He has authored journal and conference publications in various fields and received the Jury Award from Columbia University in recognition of his research. Since completion of his graduate studies, he has worked at Goldman Sachs investment banking company in the field of risk management. Concurrently, he has joined the Columbia University faculty team to teach graduate courses in convex optimization and digital signal processing. He has won numerous prestigious awards, among them he was awarded the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship and was a finalist for the Bell Labs Prize.