Cameron Pfiffer, PhD

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About me

I’m an engineer, statistician, economics, and hammock enthusiast. I play with finance, code, statistics, and pianos. I love learning about everything.

I’m a big lover of the Julia programming language. I’ve working on the Turing.jl project for Bayesian inference. I also head up the JuliaGenAI project, which is a collection of tools for using Julia in generative AI contexts.

I’m building a thing called Comind. You can read more about the thesis of the project here, and see the Patreon here.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford’s GSB. I work on industrial organization with Shoshana Vasserman. I received my PhD in finance from the University of Oregon. I have a master’s in finance from the ICMA Centre at the Henley Business School (which itself is part of the University of Reading), and a BSc in Technical Theater from Southern Oregon University. I’m often a developer for Turing.jl, a probabilistic programming tool.

What’s on this site

• You can find my blog posts here.
• I have some links to things I like here.
• You can find my CV here.

What I like

I tend to focus on computational topics in lots of domains, though generally I am an economist. I am currently interested in:

• Generative AI and NLP
• Neural network architectures
• Type systems and compilers
• Industrial organization
• Asset pricing
• Bayesian statistics

Favorite programming languages:

• Julia because it’s fast and fun to write!
• Rust because someone told me I should learn C and I thought this was cooler.
• R because I am a masochist.
• Mathematica because I forget how to take derivatives.

I do however flit between interests like a pixie, so this list is likely not current by the time you are reading it.