Yaki Tsaig

Yaki Tsaig is an AI/ML leader experienced in managing teams building AI-powered products, and an active angel investor.

In his current role, Yaki heads the Autonomous Investment Management team at BlackRock Systematic, whose flagship product is an ML system to extract alpha from global equity markets, with 120 models in production managing over $30 billion of client capital. Prior to joining BlackRock, Yaki was director of research in the portfolio credit risk unit at Moody's Analytics.

Yaki received his Ph.D from the Institute for Computational Mathematics and Engineering at Stanford University, and his B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.