Derek Snow is a Professor of Machine Learning in Finance at New York University and the founder of Sov.ai, a research and product studio building agentic AI workflows for institutional investors. He advises Manulife Wealth & Asset Management and other global banks and quantitative hedge funds on how to use AI, alternative data, and automation to improve research, risk management, and portfolio construction. His work sits at the intersection of academic research and real-world trading desks. Derek has led joint projects with major financial institutions, published in leading financial data science outlets and with Cambridge University Press, and earned a PhD with distinction from the University of Auckland. He is an alumnus of the Alan Turing Institute and the Oxford-Man Institute o...