Frank J. Fabozzi is Professor of Practice at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He has held positions at EDHEC Business School, Yale, Princeton, MIT, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon. He is the author of Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting for High-Tech Companies and Introduction to Fixed-Income Analysis and Portfolio Management, and coauthor of Bond Markets, Analysis, and Strategies, Tenth Edition and Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Institutions, all published by the MIT Press. His forthcoming coauthored books to be published by MIT Press are The Economics of FinTech and Simulation, Optimization, and Machine Learning for Finance.Sergio Focardi is a professor at the University of Genoa, - DIME, Italy, where he teaches risk management and financial engineering. He is also the founder of the consulting firm Economics and Complexity. Focardi has taught Complexity Economics at Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland.

Previously, he was a professor of finance at the Pole Universitaire Léonard De Vinci, Paris La Defense, France, and a researcher at the De Vinci Research Center after spending three years as a visiting professor of finance at the University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, and lecturing at Princeton University. Sergio holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genova (Italy) and a PhD in Mathematical Finance from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany). He co-founded the Interdisciplinary Research Center in Economics & Finance at the University of Genova. Sergio is the author or coauthor of 20 books and more than 100 peer-reviewed papers.