Professor Yaniv Konchitchki, a full-time tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, is an award-winning expert in strategic investing and interconnected finance- the interdisciplinary links between corporate financial reporting & analysis, Fintech & AI, security prices, and the macroeconomy. He is also an entrepreneur, an active investor & trader, a CPA, a Board Member for various entities, a PhD & MSc alumnus from Stanford University, an advisor/mentor to founders and executives, and a contributor to country-level national forums (such as U.S. Cyber Command). He also holds several awards and honors with international recognition (e.g. Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award; Best Paper Award; World’s Top 40 Under 40; Bakar, Hellman, & Schwabacher Fellow for Distinguished Research Excellence).
More specifically, Professor Konchitchki specializes in forecasting firm, industry, and macroeconomic changes and how to respond to them (e.g., security prices; industry trends; macroeconomic figures). For that, he leverages artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Over more than two decades at Stanford and Berkeley, he has been developing, programming, & implementing quantitative investment algorithms, mainly used by hedge funds and other entities. He is an expert in monetary economics, capital markets, Fintech, AI/alternative data investing, macroeconomic forecasting, as well as financial reporting, & analysis. In addition, he is Professional Macro Forecaster for the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Founder/Faculty Director of Berkeley Fintech and Center for Financial Reporting & Management, an Advisor to UC Berkeley Accelerator & Incubator, among others.