Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant

Send us a textDiving into pure math, quantitative finance, and solving business problems with AI and LLMs. Cheikh Fall is a co-founder of Sabr Research and an MIT grad who is looking to solve many business problems with the advancements in AI. We discuss potential issues with AI, what hedge funds look for in quant researchers, and how to prepare as a student for AI.Cheik Fallhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/fallcheik/Sabr Researchhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/sabr-research/Dimitri Biancohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-bianco/My favorite coffee which supports the creation of these podcastshttps://volcanicacoffee.pxf.io/yq6Qj3OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show

Send us a textI had a blast taking to Michael Watson who is the founder and CEO of Hedgineer. "AI is the future. But not everyone is prepared for it. To effectively integrate AI into a company, it needs an organized, thorough, and secure inventory of data. Without one, every AI implementation remains incomplete because it only has access to a subset of the relevant information it needs.Most hedge funds are built on disjointed networks of research portals, order management systems, and datasets. The ones that don't consolidate them will run the risk of falling behind the AI curve."Michael's LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldavidwatson/Hedgineer:https://www.hedgineer.io/https://www.youtube.com/@hedgineerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hedgineer-podcast/id1674929284https://open.spotify.com/show/0Aq6pxdUONA4aJPntsvqf2https://www.linkedin.com/company/hedgineer-io/Video Version:https://youtu.be/2hyfMMl1pGgOVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show

Send us a textLearn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the US. A great discussion on why many physists choose to go into quantitative finance, the positive and negative impacts of LLMs, and some perspectives on careers.Igor Halperin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-halperin-092175a/YouTube Version:https://youtu.be/J7O6Scnc5NAIgor's Textbook:https://amzn.to/42IGAGhOVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show

Send us a textJeff Ryan is an alpha engineer with an unconventional background. He is also the co-founder of QUANTkiosk and loves solving problems. Some great discussion on programming languages, structuring data, the quant community, and why R programming is so useful.YouTube Version:https://youtu.be/U0qf-sRzQZkQUANTkioskhttp://www.quantkiosk.comJeff Ryanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyaryan/OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show

Send us a textAI has many use cases and is a very broad area. AI has been used in finance since the rise of computers and the internet through automated systems. From trading to originating loans, AI is not new to finance. As LLMs have become the main focus over the last few years, there are a lot of wild predictions and fear of missing out. While LLMs and great at simple tasks and those with low risk, they are not actually thinking and need a lot of engineering around them to make them useful. They are also great at taking unstructured text data and images and turning them into structured data for more traditional methods such as math, logic, programming, statistics, and machine learning. I see there being a big lift in automating common tasks however the core of a business and where it has a competitive edge will continue to be done through non-AI methods. Don't get me wrong, implementing AI as a cost saving approach to common tasks can be an edge but it shouldn't be the main focus of your business.OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.comSupport the show