Speaker: Vassilis Skylogiannis, MSc
Date: 29 April 2025
Bio:
Vassilis Skylogiannis is a technology entrepreneur and quantitative finance professional based in San Francisco. He is the cofounder of inFrow, where he leads programming initiatives across Python, iOS, PHP, and JavaScript, alongside business development and analytics for an online marketplace. Previously, Vassilis served as an Associate Vice President at State Street’s Next Generation Labs, specializing in latent factor modeling, risk simulations, and capital structure modeling using Python and Spark. His career spans roles at Metanautix (acquired by Microsoft), Cutwater Asset Management, MBIA, and Washington Mutual, with expertise in structured finance, quantitative modeling, and machine learning. Vassilis holds an M.S. in Financial Engineering from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Piraeus. He has completed additional studies in machine learning and full-stack programming at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.