George Lentzas

Dr. George A. Lentzas (Springfield Capital Management, Columbia Business School and NYU) is a statistics expert with a decade of experience in applying quantitative models in the real world. He has worked in various capacities at a number of leading financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, Citigroup and Hutchin Hill Capital. He has also held faculty positions at both Columbia University and New York University, where he has taught courses in Machine Learning and Applied Statistics & Econometrics. His professional expertise includes the application of statistics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to finance and economics. He is currently the Chief Data Scientist and Manager of Springfield Capital Management, a NY based start-up quantitative hedge fund, as well as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and of Economics at New York University. He holds a PhD, MPhil and BA from Oxford University, an MPhil from Cambridge University and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Education

• Visiting Fellow Harvard University
• PhD University of Oxford
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil) University of Oxford
• Master of Science - MS Athens University of Economics and Business
• Master of Philosophy - MPhil University of Cambridge
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of Oxford

Companies

• Adjunct Professor - Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence Columbia Business School (2020)
• Adjunct Professor (Engineering & Economics) - Statistics & Machine Learning New York University (2019)
• Chief Investment Officer & Manager Springfield Capital Management LLC (2016)
• Adjunct Associate Professor - Machine Learning & Artifical Intelligence Columbia Business School (2017 — 2019)
• Adjunct Associate Professor (Economics) - Statistics & Machine Learning New York University (2013 — 2019)
• Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer Rabt (2016 — 2017)
• Adjunct Associate Professor (Economics) Columbia University in the City of New York (2016 — 2016)
• Hutchin Hill Capital Hutchin Hill Capital (2014 — 2016)
• Vice President Citi (2012 — 2014)

Skills

• Financial Markets
• High Yield
• Options

Other

Hedging, Trading Systems, Emerging Markets, Bonds, Structured Finance, Investments, Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Structured Products, Credit Derivatives, Credit Analysis, Portfolio Management, Equity Derivatives, Credit, Investment Banking, Equities, Valuation, Quantitative Finance, Bloomberg, Statistics, Capital Markets, Hedge Funds, Financial Modeling, Econometrics, Trading, Economics, Fixed Income, Derivatives