Marlon Azinovic-Yang

Marlon Azinovic-Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined UNC in 2025 after postdoctoral positions at the University of Zurich and the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Zurich and the Swiss Finance Institute (2021), where he was advised by Felix Kübler and co-advised by Simon Scheidegger.

Research Areas

• Macroeconomics
• Financial Economics
• Computational Methods
• Deep Learning-Based Solutions
• Heterogeneous Agent Models
• Inequality

Publication Trends

Marlon’s work focuses on developing deep learning-based computational methods to solve macroeconomic models with heterogeneous agents, inequality, and complex constraints. His research bridges theoretical economics with modern machine learning, emphasizing equilibrium models and asset pricing. Earlier work in physics explores quantum annealing applications for computational problems in satisfiability filters.

Awards

• 3rd Place Best Poster Award at PASC Conference 2019

Advisors

• Ph.D. Advisor: Felix Kübler
• Co-Advisor: Simon Scheidegger