Andrew W. Lo

Prior to QLS, Andrew W. Lo was Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist of AlphaSimplex Group. Andrew co-founded QLS Advisors in 2019 and currently serves as the Firm’s Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Strategist. He is also the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His healthcare-related research interests include new financial and business models for drug and device development and healthcare delivery, statistical methods for incorporating patient preferences into the drug approval process, and predicting clinical trial outcomes via machine learning techniques. He is a co-founder and director of BridgeBio Pharma and a member of the NIH/NCATS advisory board and the American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Impact Fund. Andrew received his B.A. in economics from Yale University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.