Interest in Blockchains and Distributed Ledger technologies is growing and and many financial professionals are understanding the power of these technologies. As we launch our Blockchain and Machine Learning and AI in Finance workshops, we are doing a preview of our upcoming workshops in this month's meetup. We will showcase an introductory module and illustrate examples from our workshops.
In part 1, we will kick off with a "technical" introduction to Blockchains. We will get under the hood to understand the key technologies that has enabled Blockchains.
In part 2 of this workshop, we will demonstrate case studies on using machine learning techniques for analyzing cryptocurrencies.
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Daniel J. Fasciano, CFA, CAIA, is a Managing Director and Family Wealth Advisor at BNY Mellon Wealth Management. He rejoined the firm in 2010 overseeing a team of Wealth Management portfolio managers and staff and is a member of the firm’s Investment Strategy Committee.
Prior to his return, Mr. Fasciano served as the Treasury Director for the State of Florida. In this role, he was responsible for all investment activities related to the State’s $16 billion portfolio. Before his work for the State of Florida, he was the Head of US Investment Office for Aviva Investors, one of UK’s largest insurance and investment firms. He began his career on the private wealth team at Mellon Financial in 1990. Dan received his B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and his MBA from Boston University. In addition to the CFA designation, he also maintains the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations. .
Duru Turkoglu, PhD leads the Blockchain Technology practice at QuantUniversity. He has taught several computer science courses at DePaul University, Chicago, including data structures, discrete mathematics, computational geometry, and systems. Previously, he was a partner in a startup proprietary trading company, where he developed and implemented profitable high-frequency trading strategies. Duru has majored in computer engineering and mathematics, and he has PhD and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Chicago.
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Anish Shah, CFA leads the Quant Finance and Machine Learning workshops at QuantUniversity. Anish has been a Quant at Northfield and ITG. He is a CFA charterholder and earned an MS in Operations Research from University of California, Berkeley and an MS in Applied Math from Brown University.
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Sri Krishnamurthy,CFA, CAP is the founder of QuantUniversity.com, a data and quantitative analysis company and the creator of the Analytics Certificate program. He has more than 15 years experience in analytics, quantitative analysis, statistical modeling and software development and has worked at Citigroup, Endeca, Mathworks and with more than 50 customers in the financial services and energy industries. Sri has an MS in Computer Systems Engineering and another MS in Computer Science, both from Northeastern University and and MBA from Babson College.
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