Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and principal investigator at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His current research interests include new financial engineering tools and business models for funding “hard tech” initiatives such as fusion energy, climate-change mitigation, drug development, and space exploration. He is a co-founder of Rutherford Energy Ventures L.P. (REV) and a member of the advisory board to Proto Ventures, MIT’s venture studio initiative. Dr. Lo received his B.A. in economics from Yale University and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.