Exponential Technologies to Build the Future Faster

Event starts on this day

Apr

16

2024

Event starts at this time 3:30 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s): Igor Tulchinsky
Cost: Free
Igor Tulchinsky, CEO, Chairman, and Head of Research for WorldQuant, will deliver the Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science.

Description

The talk will highlight views on AI applications in finance and beyond — robotics, medicine and how to leverage global talent and exciting technologies to build a future we all would want. The conversation will be moderated by Amir Husain, Founder of SparkCognition.


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Igor Tulchinsky, Founder, Chairman, CEO and Head of Research
Igor is the Founder, Chairman, CEO and Head of Research at WorldQuant, which he established in 2007 following 12 years working as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. As CEO, Igor provides vision, leadership and both strategic and tactical guidance to Research, Portfolio Management and other parts of the organization. He is the author of multiple articles and books, including The UnRules. Prior to joining Millennium, Igor was a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories and video game programmer (the latter while still in high school). He holds an MA in Computer Science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.

Location

Gates Dell Complex (GDC), Zaib & Amir Husain Auditorium

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