Aric Whitewood is the founder and CEO of XAI Asset Management, a hedge fund specialising in the application of Artificial Intelligence to investing. Previously he was the Chief Data Scientist at Credit Suisse, managing a team across Zurich, London and New York. He has over 20 years' experience in the fields of asset management, quantitative finance and high-performance computing. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, where he also completed his PhD in Electronic Engineering.