NLP Deep Dive

Speakers

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  Michal Taczynski

  Deloitte LLP

  Manager, Risk Advisory

  Michal is a Data Science Manager at Deloitte Risk Advisory. Michal specialises in developing technology for communications monitoring in the banking, healthcare and insurance sectors, he is part of the Deloitte TrueVoice team: a product that uses natural language processing alongside emotion and behavioural analysis to provide customer insights from audio and chat interactions.

  Michal oversees the model management process and is responsible for MLOps activities. Prior to joining Deloitte Risk Advisory, Michal was a Forensic Technology analyst working with large amounts of unstructured text data.

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  Dean Murphy

  Neudata

  Commercial Director - Data Provider Products

  Dean is responsible for leading, developing and expanding Neudata’s events programme.

  Having spent the last decade creating, building and scaling conference and content businesses within the FinTech and Energy sectors, Dean has worked with some of the most recognisable global brands on B2B events of all sizes. Dean co-founded two conference companies in 2013 and exited through acquisition in early 2020.

  Dean holds a BA Hons degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from Warwick University.

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  Matt Napoli

  AWS Data Exchange

  Business Development

  Matt leads Consumer Markets Business Development for the AWS Data Exchange by helping customers more easily find and connect to new data sources. Prior to AWS, Matt managed Data Distribution for 1010data (2016-2019) and was a Business Developer for Two Sigma’s Alpha Capture Strategy (2007-2016).

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  Sunny Tran

  Neudata

  Analyst (London) Research

  Sunny holds an MSc in Risk and Finance from the University of Southampton. Prior to that, she graduated with a BSc in Business & Finance and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College, New York. At Neudata, Sunny leverages on the analytical skill sets acquired through her academic studies and previous experiences as a metadata researcher in Canada and USA. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering in local charities.

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  Kevin Zacharuk

  S&P Global Market Intelligence

  Manager, Product Management, Data Management Solutions

  Kevin Zacharuk is a Manager of Product Management within the Data Management Solutions team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He oversees the management and development of text-based data feeds for machine readable use cases. He is responsible for the growth of our existing textual data feeds as well as uncovering new opportunities to serve quantitative analysts, data scientists, and other users leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) in their workflow.

  Kevin began his career at S&P Global in 2014 working out of our New York City office. He has held a variety of roles, most recently working on the development of data products and tools for the Private Equity industry. He is based out of Toronto, Canada.

  Kevin holds an HBA from the Ivey School of Business.

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  Jasper Lin

  Morgan Stanley

  Vice President

  Jasper Lin is a Sector Quant in Alphawise at Morgan Stanley Research. He is responsible for building models and analytics that combines fundamental perspective with quantitative insights from alternative data as well as traditional datasets. Prior to his current role. Jasper was a desk quant at Morgan Stanley Fixed Income Sales and Trading where he worked 3 years for the municipal securities desk and 2 years for the securitized product desk. He holds a PhD in physics from Columbia University and a BS from Peking University.

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  Andres Jaime

  Morgan Stanley

  Global Macro Quantitative Strategist & Head of FXEM Volatility Strategy

  Andrés Jaime is the Global Macro Quant Strategist and Head of FXEM Volatility Strategy, based in New York. His main responsibility is to assess macro trends by relying heavily on a systematic and quantitative approach. In addition, he leads the Global Macro team’s views on FX volatility markets, including both EM and G10. Previously, he led the LatAm Macro Strategy team for over four years, and was ranked 1st place by Institutional Investor in LatAm FX and rates strategy for 2020, the last year he led the team.

  Andrés joined Morgan Stanley in 2017 from Barclays, where he focused on G10 and LatAm local markets research. Prior to that, he worked for Bank of Mexico (Banxico), where he held several managerial positions in strategic and tactical asset allocation, and FX and commodities trading.

  He is a regular contributor to the Reforma newspaper in Mexico and has lectured in finance and econometrics in graduate and undergraduate courses at ITAM.

  Andrés holds an M.A. in mathematics of finance from Columbia University in New York, a Graduate Certificate in Machine Learning from Cornell University, and a B.A. in economics from ITAM University in Mexico City.