Victoria Averbukh is a Professor of Practice in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University and the Director of Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan (CFEM). As Director, Professor Averbukh designs and leads programs that provide practitioner-led education in quantitative finance for ORIE’s Master of Engineering students while cultivating strong connections among students, alumni, and industry leaders. She also plays a central role in curating forums for professional exchange and idea sharing — most notably CFEM’s annual Future of Finance conference, held each September.
In addition to her leadership responsibilities, Professor Averbukh teaches several courses, most notably Bond Math and Mortgage-Backed Securities — a class grounded in her Wall Street experience — as well as the Financial Engineering Colloquium, which brings industry professionals into the classroom to expose students to cutting-edge developments in finance.
Before joining Cornell, Professor Averbukh worked in Fixed Income Research at Salomon Brothers (now Citi) as a strategist covering U.S. Treasury futures and mortgage-backed securities. She later joined Deutsche Bank, where she became Head of Structured Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Research.
Professor Averbukh received her B.A. in Mathematics from New York University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University.
