# Professor Vasant Dhar is featured as one of 12 top AI professionals to know in the hedge fund industry

1 Faculty News January 9, 2018 ![eFinancialCareers logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/efinancialcareers.jpg?itok=ZA-JtoIo)>

Excerpt from [eFinancialCareers](https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/304983/top-ai-machine-learning-hedge-funds) -- "The director of the Ph.D. program in data science at New York University and a professor of information systems at NYU’s Stern School of Business, Dhar is also an entrepreneur in the field of finance. In 1998, he founded SCT Capital Management, a hedge fund that uses machine learning to make investment decisions without human intervention, and co-founded Deep Blue Analytics, a consulting company that applies data analysis to commercial problems in 2012."

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