Marcos Lopez de Prado joins Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan as a Professor of Practice
Marcos Lopez de Prado joins Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan as a Professor of Practice after leaving his post at AQR as Principal and Head of Machine Learning. "We are delighted to welcome Marcos at CFEM. He has been instrumental in developing and advancing our Financial Data Science certificate, and he brings over 20 years of quant experience into our classroom,” said Victoria Averbukh, Director of CFEM. Before formally joining CFEM, Professor Lopez de Prado taught his graduate course “Advances in Financial Machine Learning” as a CFEM practitioner since 2016. Marcos has been named "Quant of the Year 2019" by The Journal of Portfolio Management.
Our students look forward to advancing their knowledge and working on projects in financial data science under Dr. Lopez de Prado’s guidance.
Please see his updated bio here: https://www.orie.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/marcos-lopez-de-prado.
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