Igor Halperin

AI Asset Management

Igor Halperin is an AI researcher and a group data science leader at Fidelity Investments. His research focuses on using methods of reinforcement learning, information theory and physics for financial problems such as portfolio optimization, dynamic risk management and inference of sequential decision-making processes of financial agents. Igor has an extensive industrial and academic experience in statistical and financial modeling, in particular in the areas of option pricing, credit portfolio risk modeling and portfolio optimization. Prior to joining Fidelity, Igor worked as a research professor of financial machine learning at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Before that, Igor was an executive director of quantitative research at JPMorgan and a quantitative researcher at Bloomberg LP. Igor has published numerous articles in finance and physics journals and is a frequent speaker at financial conferences. He has coauthored the books Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice (Springer 2020) and Credit Risk Frontiers (Bloomberg LP 2012). Igor has a Ph.D. in theoretical high-energy physics from Tel Aviv University and a M.Sc. in nuclear physics from St. Petersburg State Technical University. In February 2022, Igor was named the buy-side quant of the year by Risk magazine.

Talks About
#ai #physics #financialmodelling #reinforcementlearning #inversereinforcementlearning

Preferred Locations
#UnitedStates