Allen Hobbs

Quantitative Hedge Fund Manager & Financial Engineer

CSN welcomed Mr. Hobbs, pioneering hedge fund investor and quantitative trader, as our guest speaker. He shared fascinating insights from his career on Wall Street, where he worked at the legendary Millennium Management and helped shape the early evolution of quantitative and algorithmic trading.

Mr. Hobbs described how he built and programmed early neural network–based systems, long before artificial intelligence became a household term, to identify patterns in financial markets and automatically trade stocks.

Through stories from his career, Mr. Hobbs broadened students’ understanding of the financial industry, highlighting new roles such as financial engineers and the growing demand for quantitative professionals.