Mike Tiano Deputy Head of Systematic Strategies Schonfeld
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Mike Tiano is an experienced quantitative researcher, professor, and portfolio manager with a career spanning academia, hedge funds, and systematic investment management. He currently serves as Deputy Head of Systematic Strategies at Schonfeld, where he helps oversee the development, evaluation, and scaling of systematic trading strategies across multiple asset classes and time horizons. He previously led systematic strategies business development at the firm, working closely with portfolio managers and researchers to translate quantitative research into deployable investment programs.
Alongside his industry work, Tiano has been an Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University since 2017, where he teaches graduate courses in quantitative finance and leads a long running research seminar on information geometry attended by applied mathematicians from both academia and industry.
Earlier in his career, he was Director of Investment Research at FQS Capital Partners, where he managed portfolios of hedge funds across diverse strategies, sourced and vetted quantitative managers, and developed portable alpha products using liquid instruments. He also served as Managing Director of a family office for Dr. Robert Frey, formerly of Renaissance Technologies, with responsibility for multi asset portfolio management.
Tiano began his academic career as a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at SUNY Suffolk and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University, with earlier degrees in computational mathematics and computer science.
