Dr. Steve Heston
Associate Professor

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University

4447 Van Munching Hall
301.405.9686
sheston@rhsmith.umd.edu

Steve Heston graduated with a B.S. double major in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1983. He attended the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and earned an MBA in 1985 followed by a Ph.D. in Finance in 1990. He held previous faculty positions at Yale, Columbia, Washington University, and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He worked in the private sector with Goldman Sachs in Fixed Income Arbitrage and in Asset Management Quantitative Equities. He is known for analyzing options with stochastic volatility and international stock risk.