Dr. Pachamanova graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Mathematics and a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. She received her Ph.D in Operations Research from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Pachamanova's research interests lie in the areas of optimization, statistics, and financial engineering. Her most recent work focuses on optimization under parameter uncertainty, and has applications in credit risk management and portfolio optimization. Dr. Pachamanova is a member of INFORMS and the Sigma Xi Honorary Research Society. Her academic research has been supplemented with work in the financial industry, including projects with strategy groups at WestLB and Goldman Sachs. Before coming to Babson College, Dr. Pachamanova taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, including courses in management science, probability, statistics, and financial mathematics.

You can visit Dr. Pachamanova's Babson web page for information about her work as a professor.