🎓Master of Science in Computational Finance & Risk Management

This article is meant to break down UW's MS-CFRM, with some commentary on my experience through the program.

I enrolled in the University of Washington’s Master of Science in Computational Finance & Risk Management (UW MS-CFRM), as a member of the 2023 cohort. The program is under the Department of Applied Mathematics, housed in Lewis Hall.

​The CFRM program at the University of Washington addresses the demand in the financial services industry for advanced quantitative computational finance competencies and next-generation risk management skills. CFRM provides students with a rigorous mathematical and statistical foundation as well as extensive instruction in the use of open source R-programming.​ The CFRM program at the University of Washington addresses the demand in the financial services industry for advanced quantitative computational finance competencies and next-generation risk management skills. CFRM provides students with a rigorous mathematical and statistical foundation as well as extensive instruction in the use of open source R-programming.

The University of Washington Master of Science in Computational Finance & Risk Management 2023 Cohort.

I've taken the following courses in the program:

• 501: Investment Science

• 502: Financial Data Science

• 503: Asset Allocation and Portfolio Management

• 504: Options and Other Derivatives

• 505: Monte Carlo Methods in Finance

• 506: Financial Data Access & Analysis

• 509: Ethics in the Finance Profession

• 521: Machine Learning for Finance

• 523: Advanced Trading Systems

• 532: Endowment and Institutional Investment Management

• 540: Risk in Financial Institutions

• 542: Credit Risk Management

As part of my coursework and program, I've applied and reinforced my skills in the following programming languages:

• Python

• R

• Excel VBA

• SQL

A lot of my classmates visiting international students, so I invited them over for Thanksgiving.

That woman in the middle was in the far back because she didn't know we we were taking a picture, until she was suddenly called over to look. Neither of us knew when this photo was being taken, but we'd end up getting married.