Biography

Kay Giesecke is Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Quantitative Finance at Hasso Plattner Institute. His research lies at the intersection of AI, computation, and finance.

He is building Intelligent Financial Systems, a research initiative focused on the foundations, methods, and computational systems for machine intelligence in finance. Before joining HPI, he spent more than two decades on the faculty of the Stanford University School of Engineering, where he founded and led the Advanced Financial Technologies Laboratory and the AI in Fintech Forum, and directed the Mathematical and Computational Finance Program. In 2020, he founded Infima Technologies, a venture-backed AI company serving fixed-income markets, which was acquired in 2024. He has published across operations research, machine learning, econometrics, and financial economics and has received several distinctions, including the Fama/DFA Prize and the JPMorgan AI Faculty Research Award. A former Editor of Management Science (Finance Area), he currently serves as Associate Editor for Mathematical Finance, Operations Research, and several other journals.