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Scott Rickard
Chief Data Scientist at Citadel LLC
Scott Rickard is a prominent figure in the fields of data science, finance, and academia with a diverse and rich background. Serving as the Chief Data Scientist at Citadel, he applies NLP, machine learning, and statistical inference to alternative data sources in finance. Prior to this role, he held positions as the SVP & CTO of Data Science at Salesforce, where he focused on big data, data visualization, and machine learning. Rickard also boasts a successful tenure as the CEO of a systematic quantitative hedge fund, specializing in mathematical finance. Moreover, he played a pivotal role as the Founding Director of a large multidisciplinary university research lab, leading its development and securing significant funding. With over two decades of academic and industrial research experience, Rickard has made high-impact contributions through papers, patents, and presentations.
