Dr. Irene Aldridge

Biography

Irene Aldridge is a recognized expert in market microstructure and high-frequency trading with over 20 years of experience on Wall Street. She is the President and Head of Research at AbleMarkets, a Big Data Capital Markets company. Before founding AbleMarkets, Irene worked as a quantitative portfolio manager and quant trader, and also held senior executive positions in quantitative risk management, large systems integration, and software and hardware architecture for enterprise Internet security. Irene began her career as a software developer. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union in New York, an MS in Financial Engineering from Columbia University, and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She studied in PhD programs in Operations Research and Finance at Columbia University. In 2011, she was a member of the CFTC sub-committee on High-Frequency Trading. Irene is a co-author of 'Real-Time Risk: Investors Know Fintech, High-Frequency Trading Flash Crashes' (Wiley, 2017) and the author of 'High-Frequency Trading: Practical Guide Algorithmic Strategies Trading Systems' (Wiley, 2009, 2013, translated into Chinese). She has published multiple academic studies in peer-reviewed journals and is a columnist for the Huffington Post, also appearing on television as an expert in her field.

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