Paul Bilokon
Thalesians Ltd Programmer, Lecturer, Entrepreneur
London, United Kingdom
CEO and Founder of Thalesians Ltd. Previously served as Director and Head of global credit and core e-trading quants at Deutsche Bank, the teams that he helped set up with Jason Batt and Martin Zinkin. Having also worked at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, and Nomura, Paul pioneered electronic trading in credit with Rob Smith and William Osborn at Citigroup.
Paul has graduated from Christ Church, University of Oxford, with a distinction and Best Overall Performance prize. He has also graduated twice from Imperial College London.
Paul’s lectures at Imperial College London in machine learning for MSc students in mathematics and finance and his course consistently achieve top rankings among the students.
Paul has made contributions to mathematical logic, domain theory, and stochastic filtering theory, and, with Abbas Edalat, has published a prestigious LICS paper.
Paul is a co-author of several books: Machine Learning and Big Data in kdb+/q (Wiley), Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice (Springer), and Python, Data Science, and Machine Learning (World Scientific).
Dr. Bilokon is a Member of British Computer Society, Institution of Engineering and Technology, and European Complex Systems Society. He is a frequent speaker at premier conferences such as Global Derivatives/QuantMinds, WBS QuanTech, AI, and Quantitative Finance conferences, alphascope, LICS, and Domains.