People | Master of Science in Quantitative Economics | University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Claire Duquennois, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Economics

Andreas Ferrara, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Economics

Amy Flick, Ph.D.

Teaching Associate Professor

David Huffman, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

Laura Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics

Anastasia Lopez, M.A., CMCS

Professional Development Faculty Instructor

Mahrad Sharifvaghefi

Associate Professor of Economics

Kevin Shaver, Ph.D.

Teaching Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Richard van Weelden, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

Randall Walsh, Ph.D.

MQE Director and Professor of Economics

Alistair Wilson, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics

Program Staff

Brian Deutsch, M.Ed.

Program Manager

412-648-7270

Students

Santiago Risco Martinez

Advisory Board

Bruce Childers, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Dean in the School of Computing and Information and Special Assistant to Provost for Data Science, University of Pittsburgh

Kathryn Collins, Ph.D.

Chief Analytics Officer, Allegheny County Department of Human Services

Anthony DeLuca

Director, Consulting Services at CGI

Andrea DeVries, Ph.D.

Staff Vice President for Health Services Research, Elevance

David Duffus

Partner, HKA

Steve Economou

Principal, Grassi

Kayla Frisoli, Ph.D.

Data Scientist, Senior Manager at LivaNova

Ilya Goldin, Ph.D.

Head of Data Science, Phenom

Andy Hannah

President - Othot, a Liaison Company; Adjunct Professor of Analytics, University of Pittsburgh; Executive Director, 1486 Labs

Scott Kinross

Senior Vice President, Head of Data Science, AI and Automation, PNC

Will Lewis

Chief Data Officer, Sheetz

Linda Loubert, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Morgan State University

Manoj Mishra

Senior Vice President at CGI

Heidi Norman

Director & CIO at City of Pittsburgh, Innovation & Performance

Bhavini Patel

Edgewood Councilmember and former CEO & Founder of Beam Data

Jerry Paytas, Ph.D.

Vice President of Analytics, Fourth Economy

Marie Pelloni

Sr. Director, Talent and Workforce Development Initiatives at Pittsburgh Technology Council and Fortyx80

Claude Setodji, Ph.D.

Associate Research Director of Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Dept. and Senior Statistician, Rand Corporation

Christina Stacy, Ph.D.

Principal Research Associate, Urban Institute

Naomi Stein

Vice President at EBP

Sundeep Tangirala

VP Consulting Expert, CGI

Sam Ventura, Ph.D.

Vice President, Hockey Strategy and Research, Buffalo Sabres

Marvin Ward, Ph.D.

Global Head of the Data Management Lab, Bloomberg LP

Ben Wilson

Founder & CEO, Rivers Agile

Mentors

Rachael Agnello

Data Analyst, Sheetz // MQE Alum, 2022

Abdel Begic

Performance Analyst, Finance & Operations at RoadRunner Recycling

Blessy Bellamy

Customer Experience Strategy Consultant at Highmark Health

Ashton Black

Data Scientist, OThot, Inc.

James Callahan

Data Scientist at Guidehouse // MQE Alum, 2023

Rachel Cawley

Consultant at Pallas Consulting Services

Alex T. Dalla Piazza

Data Scientist, EQT Corporation

David Denne

Credit Risk Solutions Specialist, Moody's Analytics

Joshua Dixon

Financial Analyst, DAI Management Consultants // MQE Alum, 2021

Adam Duvall

Senior Associate I Data Analyst, Turnberry Solutions // MQE Alum, 2021

Liam Flood

Statistician at Prosoft Clinical // MQE Alum, 2022

Anthony Garuccio

Senior Solutions Architect at PNC Bank

Jack Glasl

Analyst, Deloitte Consulting

Sumanyu Gupta

Machine Learning Engineer at SEI | ETC

Jacob Humble

Financial Analyst, FedEx Ground // MQE Alum, 2021

Rhiannon Jacobs

Affordable Housing Specialist, HUD

Joseph Karbowski

Data Scientist, PNC // MQE Alum, 2022

Max Kneis

Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Benjamin Kobrin

Asset Manager, Omni NY, LLC

Kiersten Kochanowski

Senior Data Scientist, Highmark Health // MQE Alum, 2022

Gabrielle Lazzaro

Senior Manager, Performance Media Analytics at Merkle

Samantha Levinson

Manager of Advanced Analytics, Allegheny Health Choices, Inc.

Jeff Liu

Data Analyst at Beatdapp // MQE Alum, 2023

Zheru Liu

Investment Director at Eminence Ventures

Kim Lucas, CPM

Assistant Director, Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, City of Pittsburgh

Chengying Luo, Ph.D.

Sr. Data Scientist, Instacart

Josh MacCarty

VP, Director Data Science, Trajectory

Jake Matthews

Project Analyst, UPMC // MQE Alum, 2023

Kevin McCarthy

Director of Analytics and Decision Support, Slippery Rock University

Alyssa McHoes

Researcher, Fors Marsh Group // MQE Alum, 2021

Tricia McMahon

Pricing Analytics Manager, Hitachi Vantara // MQE Alum, 2021

Laura Meixell

IT Project Manager, GSA

Kofi A. Mensah

Financial Analyst, Amazon // MQE Alum, 2022

Will Mischler

Data Research Analyst, Civiqs

Ian Morrall, Ph.D.

Economist, Lewin Group

Natalee Morris

Assistant Director Data Scientist, Moody's Analytics; // MQE Alum, 2021

Dorcas Munoko

Co-Founder and Head of Technology, Africa Crypto, LLC // MQE Alum, 2022

Kayko Ohkawa

Integrated Data Analyst, UPMC; MQE Alumni 2021

Gayatri Pai

Data Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton; MQE Alumni 2021

Gwynneth Perisse

Consultant, Deloitte

Mason Putt

Renewable Energy Investment Analyst at National Trust Community Investment Corporation (NT Solar); // MQE Alum, 2021

Nicholas Reslink

Senior Quantitative Analyst and Modeling Analyst, PNC

Jack Rossi

Data Scientist, pulseData

Rishi Sadhir

Applied Sciences & Data Science, Uber grocery

Jon Santavy

Partner, Simwell

Spencer T. Segal

Associate Economist, Moody's Analytics; MQE Alumni 2021

Scott Shohen

Partner, FluidEdge Life Sciences

Emma Stapleton

Director of Data Science at Major League Soccer

Milan Stefanelli

Data Analyst, Red Ventures // MQE Alum, 2022

Max Thompson

Senior Revenue Science Analyst, FedEx; MQE Alumni 2021

Charles Tyler

Senior System Analyst, City of Pittsburgh: MQE Alumni 2021

John Uihlein

Consultant, Ryan, LLC // MQE Alum, 2022

Linnea Warren May

Associate Policy Researcher, Rand Corporation

Jiayi Zhang

Sales & Trading, CICC // MQE Alum, 2021

Xiaoxi Zhao, Ph.D.

Economist, Amazon

Yuxi Zhou

Analyst, Econ One Research // MQE Alum, 2022