Alex Bogdan

Chief Scientific Officer, Castle Ridge Asset Management
Castle Ridge Asset Management

Alex is an accomplished quantitative scientist. With over 40 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), including 20 years in financial services, Alex developed innovative self-evolving investment strategies powered by Genetic Algorithms and other Machine Learning techniques. Previously, Alex consulted for some of the largest multi-billion-dollar hedge funds in the US and Canada. His diverse knowledge across mathematics, psychology, and engineering allowed Alex to develop cutting-edge algorithms and automated trading systems. Alex holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the A.F. Mozhaisky Military Space Engineering Academy in St. Petersburg and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Belarusian State University of Transport. Earlier in his career, Alex designed and implemented AI-based telemetric systems for communication and geo-positioning satellites. As a result, he was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize – the highest government award for achievement by a scientist under the age of 33. Alex now holds over 22 international patents, including those for electronic ballasts wildly used around the world today.

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Conference Day One: March 19 2019

Sunday, May 19th, 2019

4:40 PM WALLACE: The self-taught fully functional investment system

WALLACE is a self-evolving AI based on the concept of genetic algorithms. Constantly learning, WALLACE analyses over 10,000 securities across 42 dimensions each day. WALLACE’s most powerful features is its ability to anticipate market events. Over a 48- month period, WALLACE successfully predicted 40 public company acquisitions. Similarly, WALLACE avoided major market selloffs. As a result, WALLACE outperformed benchmarks and designed numerous hedge fund strategies.

Survival of the fittest: An insight into the process and journey of creating WALLACE
The burden of unsupervised learning: enabling the machine to decide what inputs are more or less useful
Becoming social: How WALLACE explains its decisions and exposes its thought process