Quant Stars : Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2022 Future Of Finance Conference
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2022 Future of Finance Conference
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Kristin Boggiano Co-Founder & President CrossTower Exchange
Kristin is the co-founder and President of CrossTower. CrossTower, a Web 3.0 financial infrastructure company. Over the course of her career, Kristin has built several businesses. She founded and built the Structured Products & Derivatives department at Schulte Roth, where she launched and structured many complex financial products. Kristin also co-founded DARLA (the Digital Asset Regulatory Legal Alliance — www.darla.io) in 2018, whose mission is to help shape policy regarding digital assets. In addition, Kristin was an executive to True Positive Technologies — https://www.truepositive.com, to assist in the integration of machine learning into traditional trading techniques.
Kristin also founded and served as the CEO of Women in Derivatives (WIND — www.womeninderivatives.org), a nonprofit with over 8,000 senior female executives, whose mission is to develop women leaders. Kristin began her career at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Furthermore, Kristin frequently lectures at universities. Trade organizations. In addition to other forums and writes articles on a variety of trading, financial and regulatory topics. Lastly, she is an advocate for, investor in, and mentor to entrepreneurs. And a strong advocate for women’s professional development.
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Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Dr. Amal Moussa Managing Director Head of US Single Stocks Exotic Derivatives Trading Goldman Sachs
Dr. Amal Moussa is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where she leads the Single Stocks Exotic Derivatives Trading desk. Prior to that, Amal held senior level positions in equity derivatives trading at other leading financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan, UBS and Citigroup. In addition to her work in Markets, Amal is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where she teaches a graduate course on Modeling and Trading Derivatives in the Mathematics of Finance Masters program.
Amal has a Ph.D. in Statistics, obtained with distinction, from Columbia University. Her thesis “Contagion and Systemic Risk in Financial Networks” shed light on the importance of the network structure in identifying systemic financial institutions and formulating regulatory policies, and has been cited by several scholars and industry professionals including former Federal Reserve president Janet Yellen.
She was also awarded the Minghui Yu Teaching Award at Columbia University. Prior to her Ph.D., Amal graduated with a Masters in Mathematical Finance from Sorbonne University (former Paris VI) and a Grande Ecole engineering degree from Télécom Paris. Amal is a board member of Teach for Lebanon, an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon have access to education regardless of socioeconomic background, and she is an active member of the Women in Trading network at Goldman Sachs.
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Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Yu Yu Director of Data Science at BlackRock
Yu Yu is a director of data science in BlackRock, Aladdin Client Sales and Solutions group. Yu Yu worked at Bank of New York Mellon, Point72 and AIG, where she leveraged cutting-edge statistical modeling and ML techniques to solve a wide range of investment and business problems. Yu was a tenure-track professor of marketing at Georgia State University for nearly five years prior to her industry career.
Yu Yu grew up in China and received her bachelor’s degree in finance from NanKai University. She went on to earn a Master’s in Economics from Indiana University-Bloomington and a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from Cornell University Johnson School of Management.
Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Linda Kreitzman “Queen of the Quants”
Linda Kreitzman joined 0xPartners that runs on-chain investment strategies as partner and investor on May 1st, 2021. She is currently a lecturer at the Haas School of Business for the Master of Financial Engineering program, industry Lead for the Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) as well as strategic advisor and blockchain/crypto Co-Track Chair for SkyDeck (https://skydeck.berkeley.edu/) at UCB.
Linda has spent the last twenty-one years at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, first as director then executive director and assistant dean of the top tier MFE program which she helped launch in 2000. Linda was the first director in the United States to develop a pre-program set of courses and curriculum in data science and machine learning tailored to each admitted student as early as 2012 as well as seminars on blockchain and cryptocurrencies beginning 2013. In 2017, Linda was invited by Dr. Laura Tyson, Clinton’s former presidential advisor and former dean of the Haas School, to be the co-lead on the Faculty Research Review Committee on the Berkeley Blockchain Initiative where she oversees the students’ projects on blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Linda possesses extensive worldwide industry contacts in finance, fintech and blockchain. Linda is also an investor, adviser, and board member in several start-ups in the United States, France, and Israel. In her spare time, she enjoys pilates-based training and advising students from high school to graduate and doctorate programs.
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Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan’s 2022 Future Of Finance Conference Speaker Profile: Judith Gu Head Quantitative Equities Strategist Scotiabank
Judith Gu, MS, MBA, CPA
Judith Gu, MS, MBA, CPA is a Managing Director and Head of Statistical and Systematic trading at Scotiabank US Equities business. She is responsible for alpha signals, risk management, and electronic market making for the growing US equities trading business at the Canadian bank. Prior to joining Scotiabank, Judith was a “strat” at Goldman Sachs. She worked at fundamental strategy group, equities market making desk as well as GSAM Quantitative Investment Solution ( “QIS” ) group. Judith earned her MS in Data Mining from University of Central Connecticut and her MBA in finance from New York University.
In addition, Judith has amazingly passed all 4 Certified Public Accounting exams!
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