b"FACULTYSPOTLIGHTREN CARMONAProfessor Ren Carmona has been a member of BCF sinceits creation. He was the Director of the Master in Finance program for the first 20 years, ushering it all the way to the top of the rankings. His currentresearch focuses on the theory and the numerical analysis of large stochastic systems.Carmonas contributions lead the way on the equilibrium behavior of mean field control andmean field game models and their reinforcement learning implementations. As a member ofthe scientific board of the NSF institute IMSI at the University of Chicago, he organized a longprogram on Mean Field Games and he is organizing a short program on Mean FieldReinforcement Learning in the Spring of 2026. In May 2025, the Centre International de Rencontres Mathmatiques (CIRM) hosted aninternational conference in celebration of his distinguished career. The event broughttogether international experts, including long time colleagues Yacine Ait-Sahalia and RonnieSircar, working in fields to which Carmona has made influential contributions.BACKGROUNDRen Carmona is the Paul M. Wythes '55 Professor of Engineering and Finance in the ORFEdepartment. He has been a Princeton University faculty member since 1995. He is a Fellow ofthe Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,and of the American Mathematical Society. Carmona is the founding chair of the SIAM ActivityGroup on Financial Mathematics and Engineering and a founding editor of the journalElectronic Communications in Probability and the SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.4"