Mark Hendricks is the Director of the Financial Mathematics program and an Associate Senior Instructional Professor in the Department of Mathematics. His industry experience includes hedge funds, trading firms, asset managers, and private equity. Mark's roles have included quantitative research, systematic trading, and risk management.
Mark has taught courses, reviews, and workshops at the graduate level for UChicago's Financial Math, Booth School of Business, Applied Data Science Program, and Department of Economics. His courses include portfolio and risk management, fixed income derivatives, asset pricing, valuation, and data analysis. Mark’s teaching style emphasizes active learning with application and data.
As a Ph.D. candidate for Financial Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School and Department of Economics, Mark won awards including a Stevanovich Fellowship and Lee Prize. Mark holds an M.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics.