Peter H. Gruber

Academic director USI Fintech Master, data economist, LLM afficionado, critical thinker, angel investor, ex CERN, founder at chainify. Talks about how we can use language models to do data science.

Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland

About

Innovative researcher in quantitative finance and blockchain economics. Experienced lecturer in numerical methods, economics and programming with Python, MATLAB and R. Strong economic thinker with background in computing, data science and econometrics. Passionate educator and public speaker. Two PhDs (physics and quantitative finance).

Experience

  • USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Full-time · 18 yrs)
    • Academic Director, Master Program in Financial Technology and Computing
      Aug 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Directing and managing the master program together with co-director Marc Langheinrich. Responsible for the founders' track, that allows students to earn academic credits while working on their own startup.

    • Senior Lecturer and Research Associate (Docente Ricercatore)
      Jul 2008 - Present · 18 yrs

      Research in financial risks (mostly variance risk), applied data science and blockchain-based business models. Teaching statistics, applied programming with R for finance as well as financial data science and data visualization.

  • University of St.Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
    • Lecturer, Fintech, Data Science and Numerical Methods
      Sep 2005 - Present · 20 yrs 10 mos

      Teaching Fintech, data science in "Data Visualization" and "Advanced Numerical Methods and Data Analysis" as well as numerical methods in "An Introduction to MATLAB" and "Solving Economics and Finance Problems with MATLAB"

    • Lecturer, Macoeconomics
      Sep 2005 - Dec 2014 · 9 yrs 4 mos

      Übungen Makoökonmie II

    • Assistant (Monetary Economics)
      Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Assistant to Prof. Jörg Baumberger (Monetary and Real Estate Economics)

  • Lecturer (Docente) at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Italian Switzerland
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr

    Teaching linear algebra, analysis and numerical methods with MATLAB to Bachelor students. Innovating by introducing interactive online exercises and exams.

  • Research Fellow at CERN
    Sep 2001 - Aug 2003 · 2 yrs

    Particle flow simulations and visualizations for the Neutrino Factory project. Co-editor of a "CERN Yellow Report".