Bio

Dr. Yuri Balasanov is a financial industry practitioner for more than 20 years, working at leading financial institutions as head quant, quantitative trader and risk manager. He has lead research teams working on analytical and data driven projects as well as development of software for analytics and quantitative trading at companies like Bank of America, Chicago Research and Trading, Ritchie Capital and other proprietary trading and asset management companies. Yuri Balasanov is also a lecturer at the University of Chicago. He teaches at Graduate Program on Financial Mathematics (MSFM) and Graduate Program on Analytics (MScA). Dr. Balasanov teaches courses on, Fixed Income Derivatives, Mathematical Market Microstructure, Linear and Nonlinear Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, Bayesian Methods, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics. He is also founder and President of iLykei Teaching Tech Corp since 2015. Dr. Balasanov earned his Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, where he studied under Andrey Kolmogorov and leading members of his school. His primary expertise and research interests are in the area of trading, risk management, finance and economics, business analytics, stochastic modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence, robotics with applications in various fields.