Biography
Miquel Noguer i Alonso, Ph.D., is the Founder and Chief Science Officer of the Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute (AIFI). His research sits at the intersection of quantitative finance and the mathematics of artificial intelligence, spanning machine learning, large language models, reinforcement learning, and portfolio optimization. He teaches asset management at ESADE Business School and has held teaching and research positions at NYU (Courant Institute and Stern), Columbia University, and Imperial College London.
Before founding AIFI, he spent more than 25 years in asset management, including roles as Executive Director at UBS AG and Chief Investment Officer at Andbank. He is the author of more than 200 research papers and several books — including Quantitative Portfolio Optimization (Wiley), Large Language Models in Finance (Packt), and Artificial Intelligence in Finance (Risk Books) — and co-editor of the Journal of Machine Learning in Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in quantitative finance (Summa Cum Laude) from UNED and an MBA from ESADE.