Kaiser Fung joins Northfield Information Services

Creating the next generation of risk analytics for AI investing.

Northfield Information Services, Inc. (“Northfield”) announced today that Kaiser Fung has joined Northfield to lead quantitative research, spearheading the development of the firm's next generation of risk analytics for AI investing.

Kaiser is an influential author and data scientist with more than 25 years of experience applying quantitative methods to business problems. He has held leadership positions at American Express, SiriusXM, Vimeo, and Verses AI, and was the founding director of the Master of Science in Applied Analytics at Columbia University. His commentary on statistics and data science has been featured in Harvard Business Review, FiveThirtyEight, American Scientist, Wired, Slate, the Financial Times, and CNN. He holds degrees in engineering, business, and statistics from Princeton, Harvard, and Cambridge Universities, and is the author of two bestsellers on statistical thinking, Numbers Rule Your World and Numbersense, and of Junk Charts, a leading blog on data visualization.

Over the past year, Northfield has significantly expanded its engineering and analytics team and continues to seek additional highly qualified professionals. The firm has relocated to offices in Cambridge overlooking Harvard Yard, positioning it at the heart of a rich, multidisciplinary intellectual community.

About Northfield / ND Alpha

Northfield provides risk and factor analytics to institutional investors. As part of ND Alpha, it delivers quantitative decision analytics across the ALPHA platform — the science, information, and personalization institutions need to make better decisions. Learn more at ndalpha.com.

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