BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor Vasant Dhar

Professor Vasant Dhar is the Chairman of the Information Systems Area at the Stern School of Business at New York University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Financial Markets, notably in the use of machine learning methods for predictive modeling in finance. He has written two books and over sixty research articles on Artificial Intelligence and its uses in business. Dr. Dhar received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Professor Dhar also spent several years as a research scientist in a proprietary trading group on Wall Street developing systematic trading strategies based on machine learning methods.