Bio

A former F-15 pilot and chief scientist at investment software firm Lucena Research,  Tucker Balch is a professor for the School of Computer in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Balch’s doctoral research focused on machine learning for robots, but he now works on the challenges of applying machine learning to finance. Balch has shared his expertise with others on Coursera and Udacity, where he has taught more than 170,000 students in computational finance.