Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His current research focuses on evolutionary models of investor behavior and bounded rationality; new funding models for biomedical innovation and green energy technologies including fusion; and measuring the financial consequences of impact investing. Lo has published extensively in academic journals (see http://alo.mit.edu) and his most recent book is The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Financial System Dynamics(Oxford University Press, 2024)His awards include Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships; the Paul A. Samuelson Award; the Eugene Fama Prize; the CFA Institute’s James R. Vertin Award; and awards for teaching excellence from Wharton and MIT. He received a B.A. in economics from Yale and an A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.
