Leonid Kogan

Leonid Kogan is the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Professor of Management and a Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. He leads the MFin degree program and previously taught at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and served as a senior researcher at Lehman Brothers (2007–08). His research focuses on asset pricing, macro-finance, and financial engineering, particularly examining the interplay between firm economic activity and stock prices, investor heterogeneity effects, and computational finance.

Education:

• MSc in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Moscow State University
• PhD in Mechanics, Cornell University
• PhD in Finance, MIT

Research Interests: Kogan explores cutting-edge topics such as technological progress’s impact on labor markets and inflation, cryptocurrency valuation, AI-driven stock market simulations, and robustness in asset pricing models. His work combines theoretical rigor with empirical analysis, using tools like large language models for patent analysis and generative AI for market dynamics modeling.

Awards:

• 1998 Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance
• 2004 FAME Research Prize
• 2006 Smith-Breeden Prize
• 2007 Crowell Memorial Prize
• Recent recognition includes NASDAQ and Amundi Smith Breeden awards

Grants & Labs: Current Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Active in the Laboratory for Financial Engineering and Consumer Finance Initiative at MIT Sloan. Leads executive education programs like “Fundamentals of Finance for the Technical Executive”.