Jimmie Lenz
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
Executive Director, FinTech Master's Program
Education
- D.B.A. Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
Positions
- Executive In Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
- Executive Director of the FinTech Engineering Masters Program
- Lafitte Director in the Master of Engineering in Financial Technology
Courses Taught
- MENG 553: Master of Engineering Assessment
- MENG 552: Master of Engineering Supplemental Internship
- MENG 551: Master of Engineering Internship/Project Assessment
- MENG 550: Master of Engineering Internship/Project
- FINTECH 591: Special Readings in Financial Technology
- FINTECH 590: Advanced Topics in Financial Technology
- FINTECH 565: Advanced Blockchain - Smart Contacts and Solidity Coding
- FINTECH 564: Blockchain
- FINTECH 552: FinTech Business Models
- FINTECH 550: Emerging Trends for FinTech
- FINTECH 545: Quantitative Risk Management
- FINTECH 540: Machine Learning for FinTech
- FINTECH 536: Robo-Advising: The Future of Investing?
- FINTECH 522: Asset Pricing and Risk Management
- FINTECH 512: Software Engineering for FinTech
- FINTECH 506: Concluding Residency
- FINTECH 505: Mid-Program Residency
- FINTECH 504: Introductory Residency
- FINTECH 502: FinTech Capstone
- FINTECH 501: Financial Technology Seminar
- EGRCOOP 501: Engineering Graduate Cooperative Education 1
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- CYBERSEC 590: Advanced Topics in Cybersecurity
- CYBERSEC 505: Mid-Program Residency
- CYBERSEC 504: Introductory Residency
- CYBERSEC 501: Seminar
Publications
- Brini A, Lenz J. A comparison of cryptocurrency volatility-benchmarking new and mature asset classes (Accepted). Financial Innovation. 2024 Dec 1;10(1).
- Brini A, Lenz J. Pricing cryptocurrency options with machine learning regression for handling market volatility. Economic Modelling. 2024 Jul 1;136.
- Brini A, Lenz J. Assessing the resiliency of investors against cryptocurrency market crashes through the leverage effect. Economics Letters. 2022 Nov 1;220.
- Brini A, Lenz J. Bitcoin ETFs: Measuring the Performance of This New Market Niche. 2022 Jul 8;
- Nach H, Salampasis D, Vulkan N, Zachariadis M, Lenz J. Financial technologies on campus: The rise of FinTech in higher education. In: 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021. 2021.
In The News
- Exploring the Future of Digital Assets (Jan 10, 2023 | Pratt School of Engineering)
- Jimmie Lenz on Why an NFT Makes for a More Secure, Versatile Diploma (May 9, 2022 | )
- Duke Engineering’s FinTech Program Sends Certificates to Coursera Students as NFTs (Jan 19, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering)