Robert Almgren

Robert Almgren is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Quantitative Brokers since 2008. Robert has also worked as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University starting from 2017. In addition, they have served as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business from 2015 to 2017. Previously, they were a Fellow in Mathematics in Finance at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) from 2006 to 2014 and the Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategies at Bank of America from 2005 to 2008. Prior to that, they were an Assoc Prof of Mathematics and Computer Science and Director, Master of Mathematical Finance Program at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2005, and a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Associate Director, Program on Financial Mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2000. Robert has also worked as a Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Paris VII in 1992 and as a Visiting Member at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU) from 1989 to 1991.

Robert Almgren received a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University in 1989. Prior to that, they earned an MS in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984. Robert'sundergraduate studies were completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they obtained a BS in Physics and Mathematics in 1983.