Rodney Ndum

I started faculty role at University of Central Florida, one of the largest R1 institutions in the world.

• Teaching AI Foundations in Finance - FIN 3930
• Teaching Investments - FIN 4504
• Teaching Intermediate Corporate Finance - FIN 3414

I started tenure-track role at Pepperdine University, a Christian liberal arts college in Malibu, CA.

• Taught Investments - BA 448
• Taught Intro to Corporate Finance - BA 321

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 earning a J.D. from Syracuse University, which ultimately informed my dissertation on the effectiveness of punishment, based on my learnings from Criminal Law.

• Taught Intermediate Corporate Finance - FIN 4424
• Taught Financial Modeling in Excel - FIN 4453

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.