Ryan McCorvie Biography

1. 7/7/2020 rkporter71@gmail.com Ryan McCorvie Biography Ryan McCorvie Bio Ryan McCorvie Biography Ryan McCorvie Biography Ryan McCorvie was born in 1977 in Terre Haute, IN, the son of Terry and Kathleen McCorvie. Terry moved the family to sunny central Florida after securing a job at Walt Disney World, and this is where Ryan spent most of his childhood. His mother Kathleen spent many years working for the local newspaper. Ryan was educated in the Orlando public school system, graduating with an International Baccalaureate diploma from Winter Park High School. From an early age he demonstrated a passion for science and mathematics. He actively participated in many science fairs, science camps and computer programming competitions. In his senior year was selected as a member of the U.S. Computing Olympics team. Ryan was also active on the speech & debate team, attending many tournaments in policy debate. Ryan McCorvie Education Ryan McCorvie attended university at the prestigious California Institute of Technology, where he earned a BS degree in Mathematics in 1999. Ryan's coursework included advanced mathematics and mathematical physics, but also topics like artificial life and neural networks. While there, Ryan worked on the Mars Rover at the Jet Propulsion labs. He also worked at the Caltech supercomputing center. After graduating university, Ryan joined the investment bank Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a Strategist in New York City. His role centered on mathematical modeling of financial products. In a career spanning more than 13 years he helped build https://sites.google.com/site/ryanmccorviebio/home 1/4

2. 7/7/2020 Ryan McCorvie Bio software systems to manage the risk exposures of large portfolios of derivatives and other financial instruments. In the course of his tenure, he worked on many different trading desks, including foreign exchange and interest rates. During the depths of the credit crisis, Ryan was responsible for the team modeling bankruptcy risk for the corporate bond trading desks. At this time, Ryan managed a global team of more than 20 programmers and modelers. In 2008 he was promoted to Managing Director, the firm's highest official title, attained by fewer than 5% of employees. While at Goldman Sachs, he split his time between New York City and London. Ryan enjoys international travel, and he's been to more than a dozen countries. After leaving Goldman Sachs, Ryan spent part of a year living in Japan, attending Japanese language school and studying Zen Buddhism. This was his third trip to Japan, and he attained enough language proficiency to pass the JLPT level 5. He loved taking his family on tours of the ancient and modern parts of Tokyo, to Meiji Shrine and to Shinjuku's trendy department stores. While there, he developed a passion for Japanese cooking, especially for yakitori, a kind of grilled chicken. He frequented Omoide Yokocho, a small street famous for its yakitori stalls. Upon returning to the United States, he has participated in classes on Japanese street cooking, and watched Japanese language cooking shows. In 2014, Ryan enrolled in the Statistics Ph.D. program at UC Berkeley. His research focused on random processes that exhibit crashes or cascades or contagion. Ryan believes that economics lacks good models to explain financial panics, and that new mathematical models may be able to provide insight. Ryan completed his Ph.D. candidacy exam in 2018, when he gave a seminar lecture on the Hawkes process. This is a process with discrete events (for example, "earthquakes") which incorporates feedback cycles so subsequent events (for example, "aftershocks") become more likely shortly after an event occurs. His research also focused on high dimensional statistics and random matrix models, with applications to financial portfolio construction. Ryan's advisor was Steven Evans, who specializes on probability and stochastic processes and he also worked with Lisa Goldberg, the head of the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk. Since April 2020, Ryan has been a volunteer for the California Department of Public Health, working in the group focused on modeling COVID-19 data. Ryan hopes that superior mathematical modeling can help the government formulate effective, evidence-based policy responses to the pandemic. https://sites.google.com/site/ryanmccorviebio/home 2/4

3. 7/7/2020 Ryan McCorvie Bio Ryan is married to Lisa McCorvie, whom he met in 2006 and wed in 2008. Lisa is also an alumna of Caltech but, despite it being a relatively small school, Ryan and Lisa did not meet until years later via a mutual acquaintance. She regularly beats Ryan playing backgammon. Ryan dotes on his two children, twin girls who are about to enter kindergarten. Lisa and Ryan want them to have a global orientation, so they have enrolled their children in a Mandarin-immersion school. Ryan is grateful that during his graduate studies he's had a job with flexible working hours. He's been able to be very involved in raising his children. Ryan supports a number of charitable organizations. Some organizations like Wikipedia and NumFocus help develop software tools and websites for the common good. Others like the Institute for Justice and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education are active in litigating on behalf of the rights of individuals. Ryan and Lisa also support a number of Oakland-based organizations which benefit the local community, such as Friends of the Oakland Public Library, the homeless aid organization St Vincent de Paul, the Alameda County Foodbank, and the Five Keys school for the incarcerated. Ryan is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, and for several years was the leader of a local meeting group at the Rockridge Fellowship. He is a practicing Christian, and a member of the Piedmont Community Church. In his free time, Ryan enjoys several hobbies. He is an avid cyclist, both indoors and outdoors. Ryan also enjoys exploring the natural beauty of the San Francisco Bay area by going on extended hikes. He is a voracious reader of non-fiction, especially popular science and contemporary history. Ryan has an extensive music collection, with over 3000 albums, from genres spanning Jazz to Rock to electronic dance music. Solving puzzles is also a passion - from sudoku and ken-ken, to large-scale overnight treasure-hunt puzzle games like New York's Midnight Madness. https://sites.google.com/site/ryanmccorviebio/home 3/4

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