Mentors

Tucker Balch is a Professor in the Practice and Research of Finance at Emory. He is involved in teaching courses at the intersection of AI and Finance, and launching research efforts in that area as well. Before Emory, Mr. Tucker was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan. 

At J.P. Morgan, from 2018 to 2024, he helped establish and grow the AI Research (AIR) group from zero to 120 researchers including over 60 PhDs. His team of 24 researchers and 7 developers focused on a broad range of topics with firm-wide impact, including: Novel time series prediction methods, high-fidelity market simulation, synthetic financial data generation, behavior modeling, and secure cryptographic trading systems. 

Before J.P. Morgan, he was a professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and he was a founding instructor in what is now the largest online Computer Science MS degree program in the world, generating over 10% of the new MSCS degrees awarded in the US annually. His course, CS 7646: Machine Learning for trading, hosts over 1000 MS students every semester.