Jimmie Lenz | Duke Engineering Master's Programs (original) (raw)

Education

• D.B.A. Washington University in St. Louis, 2016

Positions

• Executive Director of the FinTech Engineering Masters Program
• Executive In Residence in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
• 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 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. 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 Engineeringu2019s FinTech Program Sends Certificates to Coursera Students as NFTs (Jan 19, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering)