Biography:

Jason Morton is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford, where he studies the geometry of statistical dependence with applications to machine learning and finance. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2007 at U.C. Berkeley. He managed the $50M endowment of an educational nonprofit for five years and served as the director of research for a fund of hedge funds for two. Prior to that, he worked in M&A and investment banking at Credit Suisse. He received an M.A. in Economics from University of Michigan and an A.B. in Psychology at Harvard. Beginning January, he will be an assistant professor jointly in the mathematics and statistics departments at Penn State.