Luis Seco

Prof. Luis Seco is the Director of the Mathematical Finance Program, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and is simultaneously the Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Development at the Fields Institute, and affiliate Faculty member at the Vector Institute for research in Machine Learning; Prof. Seco’s core activity is bringing artificial intelligence into today’s sustainability challenges to build a new better world for future. He has authored papers in and environmental scores, ESG,  emissions and carbon trades using machine learning. 

His expertise has been in developing University-Industry relationships, which he has done since 1996 when he founded Risklab. which earned him the NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation in 2007 and In 2011 was invested Caballero de la Orden del Mérito Civil (Knight of the Order of Civil Merit), an award from the Government of Spain for his application of mathematics to foresee economic cycles. He was a co-founder and CEO of the investment firm Sigma Analysis & Management Ltd.. Luis Seco ’s career started at Princeton University in 1985, and landed at the University of Toronto in 1992 after a short stay at the California Institute of Technology. Today, he holds adjunct appointments at Florida International University, the Technical University of Munich, the University of Zurich and Kutaisi International University. He was appointed ADIALab Fellow in 2022.