Andrew Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering. His research focuses on the fundamental aspects of investments and financial markets, including measuring illiquidity risk in hedge fund returns, the growth of systemic risk in the hedge fund industry, and most recently, evolutionary and neurobiological models of individual risk preferences and financial markets. He has published numerous articles and is a co-author of The Econometrics of Financial Markets, A Non-Random Walk down Wall Street, and The Evolution of Technical Analysis; and author of Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective.