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Affiliated with the Industrial-Organizational Division
| Office: | 236 Psychology Building |
| Fax: | (217) 244-5876 |
| Email: | cohn3@illinois.edu |
CURRENTLY:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Psychology
1st year student in Industrial-Organizational Psychology PhD program
INTERESTS:
I have a curiosity in understanding why both applicants and practitioners resist the use of valid I-O personnel procedures. My interests in psychology are resistance, persuasion and decision making.
EDUCATION:
Tufts University; Medford, MA
Bachelor of Arts in English, 1992
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro-- RJ, Brazil
Studies in Portuguese, Brazilian literature and sociology, 1990
PRIOR EXPERIENCE:
Options Group; San Francisco, CA (2007-present)
Director and Head of San Francisco operation
Assisted hedge fund clients to develop quantitative trading operations, including long-term, medium-term, intraday and ultra-high-frequency strategies.
Options Group; New York, NY (1993-2006)
Director, information technology, quantitative analysis and systematic trading search practices
Conducted searches in the derivative products dealer community for quantitative analysts, strategists, structurers and analytics programmers.
Established the firm's first research department and participated in various industry-wide research projects, such as the firm's global compensation study and a profit-and-loss database.