MORSE Spotlight: Fan Zhang

Fan Zhang

BSc MMORSE 2006

PhD in Scientific Computing at Warwick 2011

International Monetary Fund, Washington DC

The most enjoyable part of MMORSE to me was that it provided me with a very broad coverage of basic knowledge in maths and stats and a wide variety application backgrounds of those knowledge. After I finished MMORSE, I felt that I'd like some further development in skills of solving real and relatively complicated problems independently, so I went into PhD in Scientific Computing, which is not a computer science course, but using computers to solve mathematical problems.

I was fortunate to have the opportunity to do an internship in quantitative modelling at the IMF. I am feeling blessed to have chosen MMORSE as my degree course. The topics studied in the course are playing a crucial role in helping me to find clues for solutions of my research today.