Amin Jafarian *16

Amin Jafarian, who earned a master’s degree in finance in 2016 from the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton and had been a lecturer there, died Jan. 27, 2019, in an auto accident. He was 35.

He graduated in 2005 from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. In 2011 he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. Then, he worked at Qualcomm and Neurocom.

After graduating from Princeton’s MFIN program, Jafarian was a visiting lecturer in data science and finance at the Bendheim Center. He also worked in quantitative finance at Cubist, IMC, and Alpha Simplex.

Jafarian and his fiancée, Maryam Farboodi (a former Bendheim faculty member), were on a classmate’s wedding trip in Namibia, in southwest Africa, when the accident occurred. His fiancée was seriously injured, and recovered.

Markus Brunnermeier, director of the Bendheim Center for Finance, wrote that Jafarian “will be remembered fondly by all for his dry wit, creative and wide-ranging intellect, and his love for Princeton.”

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