FiLab Students Present Their Theses at the Thesis Poster Session

On April 29, FiLab students Tyler Asher, Kaustubh Vasudevan, and Wesley Tan presented presented their theses at the thesis poster session. The session was a great opportunity for students to share the research they developed throughout the year and to discuss their work with faculty, classmates, and the broader campus community. Congratulations to all of … Read more

FiLab Visits QAC386

(written by Anthony Ganci) On February 11th, two other FiLab members and I presented to students in Quantitative Textual Analysis (QAC386). Students in QAC386 spend the semester learning how to text-mine data from several different sources, and their final project requires them to build their own dataset. The session connected their data-building skills with FiLab’s … Read more

FiLab Hosts “Introduction to Stablecoins” Event

On Monday, April 27, we hosted a public campus event, “Introduction to Stablecoins.” This student-led event introduced stablecoins, from the basics to current policy discussions and real-world applications. FiLab students explained what stablecoins are, how they work, why they matter for payments and financial innovation, and how they connect to broader questions in money, banking, … Read more

FiLab Students Present at AALAC Workshop

Kevin He and Wesley Tan recently presented their research at the 2026 AALAC Workshop on Monetary Economics in the Digital Era at Grinnell College on March 8-9. Alongside eight frontier research presentations on money and banking, they shared updates on their own ongoing projects. The workshop brought together participants from the New York Fed, Williams … Read more