Rodney Ndum
My research lies at the intersection of trust, finance, and law, with a focus on how legal structures and enforcement mechanisms shape pricing, risk, and behavior in debt markets.
My research lies at the intersection of trust, finance, and law, with a focus on how legal structures and enforcement mechanisms shape pricing, risk, and behavior in debt markets.
I started faculty role at University of Central Florida, one of the largest R1 institution in the world.
I started tenure-track role at Pepperdine University, a christian libral arts college in Malibu, CA.
My PhD was focused on Corporate Finance and specialized in Trust and Punishment. My adviser was Casey Dougal , at Florida State University College of Business. I had the pleasure of working with Yingmei Cheng , Irena Hutton , and Landon Mauler .
Along the way I synthesized my own PhD/JD by earned a J.D. from Syracuse University, which ultimately informed my dissertation on the effectiveness of punishment, based on my learnings from Criminal Law.
Worked as a price reporting analyst for The Jacobsen, which was acquired by Fastmarkets. I built Python scripts to automate the sourcing of USDA and trade data, improving data and model accuracy while reducing manual ETL processes.
I was a Project Manager IV at Facebook, working in Graph Integrity across global markets on account authenticity and hacking-related issues.
Two year MBA at the University of Florida Warrington School of Business focused in Strategy. I interned at Delta Airlines.
BSc in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Florida with a pre-med minor. During my time at UF, I worked at the Burke and Maurer Lab at the McKnight Brain Institute. My work focused on building a computer vision-based machine learning system to track rodent gait for research on age-related cognitive decline.
