Stefan Jansen

Stefan Jansen is the founder and Lead Data Scientist at Applied AI. He advises Fortune 500 companies, investment firms, and startups on data and AI strategy, building data science teams, and developing machine learning solutions. Before his current venture, he was a partner and managing director at an international investment firm where he built the predictive analytics and investment research practice. He also was a senior executive at a global fintech company with operations in 15 markets. Earlier, he advised Central Banks in emerging markets, worked for the World Bank, and co-founded the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. Stefan holds Master degrees in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and in Economics from Harvard and Free University Berlin and is a CFA Charterholder. He is the author for ‘Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading’ and has been teaching data science at Datacamp and General Assembly.

projects by Stefan Jansen

Algorithmic Trading with Machine Learning

4 weeks · 7-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE

Included with a Manning Online subscription

catalog / Data Science

Machine learning and the growing availability of diverse financial data has created powerful and exciting new approaches to quantitative investment. In this liveProject, you’ll step into the role of a data scientist for a hedge fund to deliver a machine learning model that can inform a profitable trading strategy.

You’ll go hands-on to build an end-to-end strategy workflow that includes sourcing market data, engineering predictive features, and designing and comparing various ML models. Throughout the liveProject you will work with libraries and tools from the industry-standard Python data ecosystem. You’ll tackle challenges such as training a regularized linear regression model, tuning a gradient boosting ML model, and evaluating the performance of your strategy—all essential skills for success in this highly lucrative area of machine learning.