Professional Programs

This event is hosted by MIT CSAIL Alliances and Citadel. 

Please talk to your client relations coordinator to get more information about registration. 

Join CSAIL Alliances and their member company, BAM, on Thursday, September 11th, 2025 12:00pm in STAR (32-D463).

Buy-Side Equity Quant Analysis: Tools and Open Problems, featuring BAM The distance between a finance academic and a finance practitioner is quite large, especially if the practitioner works for a prop trading firm or a hedge fund. In this talk I will talk about some of the tools of the trade in use by buy-side firms, some of the open problems they face. Time permitting, I will briefly discuss modeling crowding phenomena, backtesting protocols, challenges to factor models and spiked covariance matrices, aggregation and attribution of large signal sets, and portfolios from ranks. Gappy Paleologo, Global Head of Quantitative Research Giuseppe Paleologo is global head of Quantitative Research at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Paleologo joined BAM from Hudson River Trading, where he served as head of Risk Management. Before that, he was the head of Enterprise Risk at Millennium, director of Equities Quantitative Research at Citadel, a Systematic portfolio manager at Red Alder, and a director at Axioma (now part of Deutsche Börse). Paleologo authored "Advanced Portfolio Management" and recently published his second book, "The Elements of Quantitative Investing" in 2025. Paleologo has a Ph.D. in Management Science and Operations Research, a Master of Science in Operations Research, and a Master of Science in Statistics, all from Stanford University. He also has a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Rome.

This event is hosted by MIT Hacking Medicine, the MIT Koch Institute, and the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Join fellow life science, computer science, engineering, and medical grad students and postdocs for a cross-school, cross discipline evening of BIO x AI community and informal pitch sharing hosted by MIT Hacking Medicine, the MIT Koch Institute, and the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. 

Pitch your research or startup idea, meet with NSF and industry startup supporters, talk to founders about their lab to market journey, and learn about resources to help you get started and funded – or just come and pitch yourself as a candidate to join a team or serve as a co-founder. Then stay for the reception and dinner. 

This is the event for you if you are interested in:

• Learning about BIO x AI research to startup pathways

• Pitching your BIO x AI idea or yourself (max 2 min)

• Recruiting high impact team members or a co-founder

• Joining an informal cross-discipline reception

Attendance is limited with a preference for those pitching their BIO x AI ideas, startups, team needs, or themselves.

This event is hosted by Optiver and MIT CSAIL Alliances. Registration will be required, so please stay tuned for a registration link, or reach out to your client relations coordinator.