Dr. Tucker Balch

Dr. Tucker Balch is a managing director at J.P. Morgan AI Research. The AI Research group conducts research in areas of core relevance to financial services, including electronic markets, complex systems modeling, cryptography, machine learning, and explainability. J.P. Morgan AI Research partners with teams across the firm as well as with leading academic institutions globally. Tucker is also a professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech (on leave) where his research has focused on multi-agent social behavior in domains ranging from financial markets to tracking and modeling the behavior of ants, honeybees and monkeys. He cofounded Lucena Research, an investment software firm that applies Machine Learning and Big Data approaches to investment problems. Balch has published 120 peer-reviewed articles. At J.P. Morgan, Tucker leads research teams focusing on the simulation of large-scale multi-agent economic systems, cryptographic trading technologies, and data security. His work has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Scientist, Institutional Investor, and the New York Times. His graduated students work at J.P. Morgan, NASA/JPL, Boston Dynamics, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citadel, AQR, and BlackRock. Before his career in computing, Tucker was an F15 pilot in the US Air Force.