Scott Rickard Email Address

Chief Data Scientist

Citadel is a global investment firm built around world-class talent, sound risk management and powerful and innovative technology. For over a quarter of a century, Citadel has served top-tier investors around the world, including sovereign wealth funds, public institutions, corporate pensions, endowments, and foundations. Citadel's team of more than 750 investment professionals deploys capital across all major asset classes and in all major financial markets, from offices around the world including Chicago, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Greenwich, Houston, Toronto, Shenzhen, and Shanghai.

Highlights: o SVP & CTO for Data Science in Salesforce; Big data, data visualization, machine learning. o CEO of systematic quantitative hedge fund with 5+ years experience in mathematical finance; Led the development of an algorithmic trading system that trades global futures markets. 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. He spent 1995 and 1996 in Munich Germany with Siemens working in the Neural Networks Group. 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 an Associate Professor in Electronic Engineering. During his tenure at UCD, Dr. Rickard obtained over 1.5M euro in individual funding and 100M euro in group funding. Prof. Rickard joined start-up hedge fund Probability Dynamics in 2011 as the Chief Quantitative Officer, and became CEO in August of 2012. In August 2014, Scott joined Salesforce.