Nima Afshar

Research, teaching, and ideas.

I am a finance PhD student at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. My research explores the intersection of finance and machine learning.

Research

The Virtue of Sparsity in Complexity

With Jonathan Yu-Meng Li · Working paper, 2026

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Teaching

Business Analytics (ADM 2302)

Instructor · Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa · Spring–Summer 2026