Sov.ai's Derek Snow on AI for Fundamental Investors
INTERVIEW
Derek Snow is an expert in AI, which he sometimes calls “Automation Intelligence.”
He has quite the pedigree:
Ph.D. in finance from the University of Auckland
Visiting doctoral scholar at NYU's School of Engineering and Cambridge Judge Business School
Alumnus of:
The Alan Turing Institute
The UK's Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance at Oxford University
Currently teaching machine learning in finance at NYU
Author of MLQuant newsletter
Derek is also the founder of Sov.ai, a quant research platform for fundamental investors. Sov.ai provides investors with datasets and tools that can spot trends and patterns in financial markets, without requiring them to be expert programmers or data scientists themselves.
Derek, who’s a native of New Zealand, splits his time between NYC and Boston.
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