Columbia Mathematics of Finance (MAFN) & Department of Statistics 2026 Future of Portfolio Management & Artificial Intelligence Conference
November 5th, 2026 : Pulitzer Hall
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08.30 – Registration
08.55 – Opening Address: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia Professor & Chair Columbia Department of Statistics, 4,500+ Research Citations
09.10 – Opening Keynote Speech: Professor Agostino Capponi, Columbia University 4,000+ Research Citations
09.50 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Encountering Real World Data & Changing Landscape of Quant Investing!
Moderator: Matthew Lyberg, Head of Asset Management AI Manulife
Judith Gu, Head of Quantitative Research at UBS, Managing Director, Claudia Perlich, Two Sigma, Saksham Sharma, Tower Research Capital Director Quantitative Research Technology, Chris Preuss, CEO, CPZ Lab, Yosef Zweibach, Chief Operating Officer of Quantic, Walleye Capital, Samson Qian, Trader at Citadel Securities
10:30 – Keynote: From Noisy Transactions to Predictive Alpha: Statistical Learning, Bias Correction, and Causal Inference in Alternative Data
11.00 – Break
11.20 Panel Discussion: The Investment Process in 2026
Moderator: Mike Soss, Chief Investment Officer, Milburn Hedge Fund
Trevor Mottl, Portfolio Manager, Magnetar Capital, Saurabh Srivastava, Head of Systematic Execution/Portfolio Manager, AFBI, Sean Slotterback, Quant Portfolio Manager, Kbit, Zach Squire, Hedge Fund Manager Manager, Tekmerion, Adam Choppin, Director of Multi-Manager Strategies, Xponance, Renee Yao, Cornell University Speaker Founder & CIO Neo Ivy Capital, Nancy Davis, Founder & Portfolio Manager Quadratic Capital Management LLC, Matt Rowe, Managing Director, & Senior Portfolio Manager, Man Group
11.55 Keynote: Nvidia‘s Head of Capital Markets Dr. Ioana Boier, 2,300+ Research Citations
Lunch 12.30
1.15 Debate Kirk Mckeown, CarbonArc CEO, Point72’s Fmr Head of Proprietary Research vs Christina Qi, Databento CEO, Founder, Domeyard LP -Moderated by Carson Boneck, Balyasny Asset Management, Fmr Head of Data
1.40 PANEL DISCUSSION : Capturing Alpha
Moderator: Wenqi Zhou Portfolio Manager at Engineers Gate
Abhi Kane, Managing Director, 400 Capital Management, Caio Natividade, Global Head Quantitative Investment Solutions Deutsche Bank, Kevin S Gahwyler, CFA, Managing Director, Meteora Capital, Sudip Gupta, Johns Hopkins Professor, Natascha Hey, Fmr CFM Researcher, Columbia Researcher, Kenneth A. Blay, Head of Strategic Research – Strategy & Insights at Invesco Ltd., Paul Krueger, Quant, Millennium, Riti Samanta, Global Co- Head Fixed Income, Systematic Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, Russell Investments
2.10 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Understanding The Future of Machine Learning
Moderator: Dr. Andrew Arnold, Optiver Head of Research, Ai Lab
Irina Bogacheva, Head of Research, Millburn Ridgefield LLC & Adjunct Professor in Mathematics of Finance at Columbia University, Igor Halperin, Quant, Fidelity, Gordon Ritter, Tower Research Capital, Peter Cotton, CrunchDao, Arkin Gupta, Citadel, Dr. Ioana Boier, Ai Scientist, NVIDIA
2.40 – BREAK
3.00 Keynote Speech: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Capital Fund Management Chairman Chief Scientist, Académie des Sciences Member, Fmr Professor @ Ecole normale supérieure, Collège de France, Ecole Polytechnique & ESPCI, 59,000+ Research Citations
3.30 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Future of Data & Ai in Investing: NLP, Generative Ai, Synthetic Ai, Deep & Reinforced Learning & Causality and interpretability in machine learning models
Moderator: Petros Zerfos, Principal Research Scientist & Manager at IBM Research
Harvey Stein, Two Sigma, Melissa Otto, CFA, Global Head of Visible Alpha Research at S&P Global, Sid Pednekar, PhD, Head of Data & Ai – Asset Manager, Dr. Argyro (Iro) Tasitsiomi, Head of Investments Data Science at T. Rowe Price, Natalya Dmitriyeva, Fmr Global Head of Data Content at Schonfeld & Two Sigma, Jason DeRise, CFA, Liberty Mutual Investments, Senior Director, Head of Public Markets and Research Investing Products, Zameer Arora, Capula Investment Management Portfolio Manager
4.00 – “Whose Risk Appetite? Behavioural Biases, Risk Preferences and a Brain Map of Financial Decisions in Large Language Models” : Research Presentation by Sid Ghatak, CEO, Increase Alpha & Arman Khaledian, CEO, Zanista Ai
4.25 Keynote Speech Professor Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago – Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
4.50 – Concluding Keynote Johannes Muhle-Karbe, Head of Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London 2,100+ Total Research Citations
5.15 – Networking
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