Faculty Biographies
Tao L. Wu
Assistant Professor of FinanceOffice: DTC 458
E-Mail:
twu5@stuart.iit.edu
Phone: 312.906.6553
Fax: 312.926.6549
Education
- B.A., Economics-Operations Research/Computer Science, Columbia University
- M.A., Finance, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- Ph.D., Finance, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Affiliated Programs
MBA, MS Finance
Research Interests
- Derivatives
Biography
Professor Wu has published scholarly articles in the Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference.
In addition, he has been invited to present at the prestigious American Finance Association Meetings, Financial Management Association Meetings, the 11th Symposium on Banking, Finance, and Insurance, the 16th Derivatives and Risk Management Conference at the FDIC, INQUIRE-UK Cambridge seminar, Risk and Decision Making Paris workshop, and universities throughout the country. He has been awarded a Faculty Summer Research Grant, Dean's Fellowship for Distinguished Merit, Van Buren and Van Ambrige Prizes in Mathematics, Josephine de Karman Fellowship and an I. I. Rabi Scholar. Prior to graduate school, he traded derivatives for a major investment bank in New York City.
