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Chief Data Scientist

We analyze global markets with discipline and focus, and employ a range of strategies in an effort to deliver market-leading investment returns to our capital partners.

Highlights: o Chief Data Scientist, Citadel, applications of NLP, machine learning, statistical inference to alternative data sources in finance. o SVP & CTO, Data Science, Salesforce; Big data, data visualization, machine learning. o CEO of systematic quantitative hedge fund with 5+ years experience in mathematical finance o Founding Director of 200+ researcher multi-disciplinary university research lab; Led the development of the lab, taking it from initial concept to thriving center; Helped raise $100M in funding. o Successful 20+ year academic/industrial research career with high-impact contributions, papers, patents, and presentations. Education: o 1992 BS, Mathematics, MIT o 1993 BS, Computer Science and Engineering, MIT o 1993 MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT o 2000 MA, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton o 2003 PhD, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton Professional Biography: From 1991 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts and worked on a machine learning and sonar applications. From 1993 to 2003 he was a member of technical staff at Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey and Munich Germany. While with Siemens, he developed and applied machine learning technology to industrial problems such as vehicle navigation, automated image analysis, biomedical signal classification, and industrial plant state prediction. Dr. Rickard moved to UCD in September 2003 and was the Founding Director of the UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL), as well as a Professor in Electronic Engineering. Prof. Rickard joined start-up hedge fund Probability Dynamics in 2011 and became CEO in August of 2012. He led the development of an algorithmic trading system that trades global futures markets. Dr. Rickard joined Salesforce in 2014, where he led data science for Service Cloud, Communities and Search.