Jaime Cuevas Dermody, Ph,D.

Create and sell intellectual property of a financial nature: mathematical finance, risk analysis, and financial-product taxation. Work with a fund that hedges interest rate risk for clients, and a fund that buys TALF-finance assets and odd lots of non-leveraged non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities.

Ralph Tyrrell Rockafellar

A global leader in optimization theory and combinatorics. Born in 1935, Rockafellar studied mathematics at Harvard University, earning degrees in 1957 and 1963. Between receiving his bachelors and PhD, he spent a year abroad as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn in Germany.