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Pr. Charles-Albert Lehalle
Global Head of Quantitative R&D, ADIA

Pr. Charles-Albert Lehalle started his career managing AI projects at the Renault research center and moved to the financial industry with the emergence of automated trading in 2005. He was Global Head of Quantitative Research at Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux, and Head of Quantitative Research on Market Microstructure at Crédit Agricole Corporate Investment Bank, before moving to Capital Fund Management.

On the academic side, Pr. Lehalle received the 2016 Best Paper Award in Finance from Europlace Institute for Finance (EIF) and has published more than eighty academic papers and book chapters. He co-authored the books "Market Microstructure in Practice" (World Scientific Publisher, 2nd edition 2018), analyzing the main features of modern markets; and "Financial Markets in Practice" (World Scientific Publisher 2022), explaining how the connected network of intermediaries that makes the financial system is shaping prices formation; he co-edited with Pr Agostino Capponi the book "Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Financial Markets A Guide to Contemporary Practices" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Pr. Lehalle studied machine learning for stochastic control during his PhD on nonlinear control and artificial neural networks. His “Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches” topics were mathematical models to study and control the price formation process.

Pr. Lehalle is also a member of the Scientific Directory of the Louis Bachelier Institute, Lecturer at UC Berkeley and Paris 6 Sorbonne Université and Ecole Polytechnique “Probability and Finance” Master.

Hinesh Kalian

Head of Data Science, MAN Group

Hinesh Kalian is Director of Data Science at Man Group. He is responsible for data strategy, data acquisition, data science and data science engineering across Man Group’s investment managers.

Hinesh was formerly Head of Data Science and Investment Implementation for Man AHL, where he was responsible for monitoring and verifying activity on the Man AHL trading system, new data acquisition and strategy, data management and portfolio implementation. Prior to joining Man Group in 2010, Hinesh spent six years at JPMorgan. Hinesh holds an MSc in Finance from the University of London.

Anastasia Borovykh

Dr. Anastasia Borovykh
Assistant Professor in Machine Learning, Imperial College London

Dr Anastasia Borovykh is an Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London and at Imperial-X. Her research centers on the design of efficient, robust and privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms relying on tools from applied probability, statistical mechanics and neuroscience. She obtained her PhD in Applied Mathematics cum laude from the University of Bologna.

She frequently collaborates with industrial partners such as JP Morgan, Ernst & Young, Nokia Bell Labs and is a co-founder at Skialabs, a SAAS solution for city logistics. Her work has resulted in the Young Researcher award by the Journal of Computational Finance and she was a STEM for Britain 2022 finalist.

Dr. Vik Bansal
Systematic Portfolio Manager, Centiva Capital

Dr Vik Bansal is a Portfolio Manager at Centiva Capital where he leads a team building and trading systematic strategies for both single stock equities and commodity futures. Prior to Centiva, Vik spent three years at ADG Trading and then ADG Capital, where he became Chief Investment Officer. Before ADG, Vik was at Tudor Capital for nearly 10 years where he became a Global Partner and, in addition to trading equities, sat on the firm’s Capital Allocation, UK Management and Systematic Management Committees.

Vik started his career in finance at Orbis Investment Advisory before moving to Aspect Capital and becoming Quantitative Research Director. Vik has a PhD in Process Systems Engineering from Imperial College London where he sits on the Chemical Engineering Department’s External Strategic Advisory Board and also funds an annual PhD bursary. He has several other interests outside finance including film production and music.

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