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Dr Nick Firoozye
Computer Science
Meetings on Request
London
Appointment
- Honorary Reader
- Dept of Computer Science
- Faculty of Engineering Science
Biography
PhD New York University, 1990
Asst Prof, Univ Illinois, 1994
Honorary Faculty, UCL 2015-Current
Industry Experience
- Lehman Brothers 1994-1999
- Sanford Bernstein/Alliance Capital 1999-2001
- Deutsche Bank 2001-2005
- Goldman Sachs 2005-6
- Citadel 2006-2009
- Nomura 2009-2017
- Symmetry 2017-18
- Exodus Point 2018-19
- Exos Securities 2019-Current
Research Summary
Interested in ML, Computations Statistics, and AI, applied to Finance and especially to Algorithmic Trading. This necessarily involves time-series forecasting, using methods from Statistics, (Adaptive) Signal Processing, Econometrics, and Machine Learning. Also I have interests in portfolio allocation, and stochastic control / reinforcement learning for optimal execution. Recent areas of interest have been in ranomd matrix theory for portfolio analysis, RL for optimal execution, bagging and boosting over-parameterised shallow nets for online learning to forecast prices in near real-time.
Teaching Summary
I devised a course, Algorithmic Trading. Originally it was a PhD reading course in 2015. After several years and iterations (first with Julian Bonart and later with Paolo Barrucca) it was launched as an MSc course in 2018-19. It is taught in T2 each year. and is one of the most popular courses in the MSc programmes in Risk Mgt and Quant Finance. Previosuly my teaching was all in PDEs or ODEs or Discrete Mathematics.
Appointments
01-AUG-2019 – 01-AUG-2026 | MD | Systematic Trading | Exos Securities, United Kingdom |