Petter Kolm Named Buy-Side Quant of the Year for 2026

December 2, 2025

Petter Kolm, Clinical Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Mathematics in Finance Program, has been named Buy-Side Quant of the Year in Risk.net's Risk Awards 2026.

Professor Kolm and his co-author Nicholas Westray, who has worked Visiting Researcher in Financial Machine Learning, are recognized for the practical applications of their recent paper "Deep Learning Alpha Signals from Limit Order Books: Practical Insights and Lessons Learned."

Last month, Professor Kolm spoke about Courant's Mathematics in Finance Program when he was profiled on an episode of the Quantcast Master’s Series. You can find that interview here.