Amy Y. Zhou is a PhD student at the MIT Sloan finance group. Her research interests include systemic risk, currency carry trades, and liquidity.
Her recent projects focus on conducting an empirical comparison among systemic risk measures, and generating early-warning signals for major US/international financial crises.
Amy received her bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from Caltech, and is also a published author in quantum physics. She has worked at IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department in Washington DC, and JPMorgan’s Proprietary Positioning Business and Fixed Income Strategies in New York. Earlier this year she received MIT’s Graduate Teaching Award and Sloan’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
She is a September 2012 MFM Fellowship awardee.