Duke Whang
                         duke.whang@gmail.com
                         http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~whang/


Education       UCLA Deparment of Economics          Los Angeles, CA
                Ph.D. student.
                M.S. in Economics, GPA 3.8

                UCLA/Anderson School of Management   Los Angeles, CA
                M.S. in Management (specialization in Finance) 2005,
                GPA 3.7

                University of Chicago                Chicago, IL
                M.S. in Computer Science 1994, GPA 3.8

                California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
                B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Economics, with honors
                  1992, GPA 3.7


Work Experience
                Barra                                Berkeley, CA
                Fixed Income Database Analyst 2000/10-2002/08

                Allegiance Capital                   Huntington Beach, CA
                Programmer and System Administrator 1999/04-2000/09

                University of Chicago                Chicago, IL
                Lecturer (Scheme and Pascal)  1996-1997

                California Institute of Technology   Pasadena, CA
                Teaching Assistant (Calculust)  1991-1992


Research
                Duke Whang.  Existence of Nontrivial Equilibria in an
                Intermediation Model with Search Costs.  Unpublished
                manuscript.  2006

                Duke Whang.  Applications of Regime-switching Forecasts
                to Predictive Regressions of the Equity Premium.
                Unpublished manuscript.  2005

                Lance Fortnow, Duke Whang.  Optimality and Domination
                in Repeated Games with Bounded Players.  Proceedings
                of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of
                Computing, pages 741-749.  ACM, New York, 1994.

                Lance Fortnow, Stuart Kurtz, and Duke Whang.  The
                Infinite Version of an Open Commmunication Complexity
                Problem is Independent of the Axioms of Set Theory.
                SIGACT News, 25:1:87-89, March 1994.


Programming Languages 

                (Current) R, Python
                (Previous) Matlab, Perl, SQL, Scheme, Pascal, Mathematica, 
                Bash shell scripts

Current Projects

                1.  Journal submission of the intermediation model paper

                2.  Analysis of TaQ (Trades and Quotes) data, with
                    professor Bryan Ellickson.  The TaQ database lists
                    all public trades and quotes on American stocks
                    (NYSE as well as some NASDAQ).