Robert Almgren

Rob is Co-Founder and Head of Research at Quantitative Brokers (QB). Rob holds a PhD in Applied & Computational Mathematics from Princeton, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, and a B.S. in both Physics and Mathematics from MIT. Before founding QB in 2008, Dr Almgren was a Managing Director and Head of Quantitative Strategies in the Electronic Trading Services group of Bank of America. Before that, he was a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago and then the University of Toronto, where he was Director of the Master of Mathematical Finance program. He is currently a visiting Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches a course on High Frequency Trading.