Matthew Ferri

Matthew Ferri is a founding partner at PDT Partners, a quantitative investment firm based in New York. Ferri joined PDT in 1997 when it was a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. PDT Partners became an independent investment manager in 2013.

Ferri completed his undergraduate studies at Rice University and his graduate studies at MIT. He has degrees in mechanical engineering (B.S.), electrical engineering and computer science (M.S.), and nuclear engineering (M.S. and PhD). His doctoral thesis research at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center focused on superconducting magnet designs for advanced tokomak experiments.

Among other interests, Ferri supports the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at MIT, serves on the advisory board for the Songs of Love Foundation and is a member of the steering committee for the PDT / Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics partnership.

Originally from Colorado, Ferri lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. He often spends weekends in the Upper Hudson Valley, where he enjoys cycling, skiing, hiking and relaxing by the pond.