tucker
Summary
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SeniorTucker Balch is a finance and AI-focused academic and leader who now serves as Professor in the Practice and Research of Finance at Emory, teaching and launching research where machine learning meets markets. He scaled J.P. Morgan’s AI Research group from zero to 120 researchers, leading a cross-disciplinary team that built time-series prediction methods, high-fidelity market simulators, synthetic financial data, behavior models, and secure trading systems. A longtime professor (Georgia Tech) and co-founder of Lucena Research, he helped pioneer large-scale online CS education and created a widely taught course on machine learning for trading enrolling over 1,000 MS students each semester. His background blends deep academic research (PhD CS) with hands-on quant and product experience at hedge funds and fintech, plus an unusual early career as an F-15 pilot that informs his decisiveness under pressure. Known for translating cutting-edge research into production-grade financial systems, he brings both technical breadth and operational scale to AI in finance.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
code-snippets10
customisation10
cursors9
install-script9
sketchup9
windows-forms8
issue-tracking8
windows7
windows-service7
visual7
hosting5
server4
management3
windows-server3
windows-desktop3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Uuvana-Studios/longvinter-windows-client
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
For issue/suggestion tracking for Longvinter Windows Client
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 795 comments in 3 months
gamewindowscustomisationinstall-scriptvisual
faketucker/faketucker
Apr 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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