The top 10 MIT Sloan news stories of 2021
From a machine learning explainer to trends in data and artificial intelligence, here are the stories that readers needed most this year.
Faculty
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Lo's current research spans three areas: evolutionary models of investor behavior and adaptive markets, quantitative models of financial markets, and healthcare finance. Recent projects include: an evolutionary explanation for bias and discrimination, and how to reduce their effects; a new analytical framework for measuring the impact of impact investing; and new statistical tools for predicting clinical trial outcomes, incorporating patient preferences into the drug approval process, and accelerating biomedical innovation via novel business and financing structures.
Lo has published extensively in academic journals (see http://alo.mit.edu) and his most recent book is Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. His awards include Batterymarch, Guggenheim, and Sloan Fellowships; the Paul A. Samuelson Award; the Eugene Fama Prize; the IAFE-SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year; the Global Association of Risk Professionals Risk Manager of the Year; the Harry M. Markowitz Award; the Managed Futures Pinnacle Achievement Award; one of TIME’s “100 most influential people in the world”; and awards for teaching excellence from both Wharton and MIT. His book Adaptive Markets has also received a number of awards, listed here. He is a Fellow of Academia Sinica; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Econometric Society; and the Society of Financial Econometrics.
Lo is also a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, an affiliated faculty member of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a member of the New York Federal Reserve Board’s Financial Advisory Roundtable, FINRA’s Economic Advisory Committee, the National Academy of Sciences Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Board of Overseers, and the boards of Roivant Sciences and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Lo holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan and Andrew W. Lo. Operations Research Vol. 49, No. 3 (2001): 372–397.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan and Andrew W. Lo. Journal of Financial Economics Vol. 55, No. 2 (2000): 173–204.
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Andrew W. Lo and Paul Hummel. Computing in Science & Engineering Vol. 1, No. 6 (1999): 40–53.
Bertsimas, Dimitris and Andrew W. Lo. Journal of Financial Markets Vol. 1, No. 1 (1998): 1–50.
Lo, Andrew W. and Pankaj N. Patel. Journal of Portfolio Management Vol. 34, No. 2 (2008): 12-38.
Smith, Erin, Diab Ali, Bill Wilkerson, Walter D. Dawson, Kunmi Sobowale, Charles Reynolds III, Michael Berk, Helen Lavretsky, Dilip Jeste, Chee Ng, Jair C. Soares, Gowri Aragam, Zoe Wainer, Husseini K. Manji, Julio Licinio, Andrew W. Lo, Eric Storch, Ernestine Fu, Marion Leboyer, Ioannis Tarnanas, Agustin Ibanez, Facundo Manes, Sarah Caddick, Howard Fillit, Ryan Abbott, Ian H. Robertson, Sandra B. Chapman, Rhoda Au, Cara M. Altimus, William Hynes, Patrick Brannelly, Jeffrey Cummings, and Harris A. Eyre. Molecular Psychiatry Vol. 26, (2021): 3-22.
From a machine learning explainer to trends in data and artificial intelligence, here are the stories that readers needed most this year.
New books about the future of AI, working remotely, the COVID-19 vaccine, and how to build the perfect portfolio.
"There is evidence of social contagion of investment behavior in financial markets that does not derive from rational information processing."
"We point out that this is a never-ending journey, that we're constantly looking to improve the way we think about investing."
A growing number of brokers are offering clients products that combine the benefits of passive investing with greater customization.
Andrew W. Lo and co-author have written an intellectual history of modern finance theory which shows how far from a science investing remains.
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This online program from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) challenges common misconceptions surrounding AI and will equip and encourage you to embrace AI as part of a transformative toolkit. With a focus on the organizational and managerial implications of these technologies, rather than on their technical aspects, you’ll leave this course armed with the knowledge and confidence you need to pioneer its successful integration in business.