Jesse Blocher
Assoc Prof Of The Practice Of Finance And Data Science OGSM, Director Of Grad Studies DSI
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Blocher is an associate professor and academic leader with 16 years of experience at the intersection of data science and financial economics, currently directing graduate studies at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute and holding a faculty appointment at Owen Graduate School of Management. He applies quantitative finance, machine learning, econometrics, and network analysis to topics like hedge funds, securities lending, ETFs, and market interconnectedness, drawing on a PhD in Finance and an earlier engineering background. Known for work on financial networks (including a job-market paper on contagious capital), he combines rigorous research with program administration and external partnership-building. Prior roles in industry and education—from managing Java development teams at TIAA-CREF to teaching urban AP calculus—give him a rare blend of technical, managerial, and classroom experience.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Quince Orchard High SchoolB.S. Chemical Engineering, B.S. Chemical Engineering at Virginia TechM.S. Chemical Engineering, M.S. Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Finance, PhD Finance at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolPhD Finance, PhD Finance at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
prediction10
espn9
regression-models9
modeling8
forecasting8
statsmodels8
statistics8
econometrics8
hypothesis-testing8
generalized-linear-models7
python7
data-analysis6
merge6
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json6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jblocher/matlab-network-utilities
Apr 2010 - Oct 2010
Contributions:9 commits in 5 months
jblocher/mgt6534
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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