Dr. Andrew LoCharles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as the director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
His most recent research focuses on applying financial engineering and data science to develop new business and financing models for “hard tech” sectors such as biotech and fusion energy.
He has published extensively (see http://alo.mit.edu) and his most recent book is The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Financial System Dynamics.
He has received numerous awards including being named one of Time Magazine’s “100 most influential people in the world”, and received a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
