Michael Sury is the Managing Director of the Center for Analytics & Transformative Technology; and is an award-winning professor who has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for over 14 years. Michael began his career working in technology in 1986, building AI programs and designing intelligent systems architectures at MCC—the noted R&D consortium started by tech heavyweights including Intel, GE, Microsoft, and AMD. Michael later worked for Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. on classified projects for the DoD’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI); and IBM, where he taught and implemented statistical process control (SPC) and real-time analytics for manufacturing engineering across the IBM PC production line.
After graduate school at the University of Chicago, he was recruited by Goldman Sachs & Co., and served in the firm’s Equities Division (Capital Markets and Equity Derivatives) and Vice President in the Investment Management Division (including serving on the PCS Asset Allocation Committee). He later led one of the nation’s top-ranked wealth management and institutional broker-dealer trading firms before ultimately selling his stake and entering academia. He has taught at the University of California, DePaul University, Santa Clara University, and now as a member of the faculty of Finance at the University of Texas. At UT, he serves as the Program Director of the Financial Analytics track within the MSBA program, and as a member of the MSB Analytics Task Force.
He has delivered over 80 conference speeches in the US and internationally; and has appeared on the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) as well as in Bloomberg, CNBC, and a variety of news publications for his insights and commentary on financial analytics and the capital markets.