Michael Kharitonov, PhD

Michael Kharitonov is co-founder and CEO of The Voleon Group, a hedge fund that uses machine learning as the primary driver of its investment strategies. Kharitonov earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California before completing his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, where his fellowship began in 1988. He co-founded Voleon—a quantitative investment firm using machine learning strategies—to apply machine learning and statistical inference methods to financial markets in a more systematic and data-driven way than traditional quantitative finance approaches.