Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa

Dr. Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa is Professor at the California Institute of Technology. His areas of expertise are Machine Learning and Computational Finance. He received his PhD from Caltech where he was awarded the Clauser Prize for the most original doctoral thesis, and later received the Feynman Prize for excellence in teaching. In 2005, the Hertz Foundation established the Abu-Mostafa Fellowship in his honor. He has served as scientific advisor to several corporations and start-up companies in the US and abroad. He has travelled extensively and is fluent in 3 languages.