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Peter Anderson

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Head of Research - Applied AI at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Peter is the Head of Research for Applied AI at Balyasny Asset Management, where he develops AI models for investing. His expertise lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision, with a career spanning both tech giants like Google and the finance industry.

His interests include competitive robotics, having served as a software engineer for a team that placed third in the autonomous robot soccer world championships. He is also a two-time university medalist, including one in Finance from the University of Sydney.

Unique fact: Peters work on attention mechanisms for AI achieved first place in the 2017 CVPR Visual Question Answering Challenge.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Head of Research - Applied AI
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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AI in Finance
His current role involves developing transformative AI models for investing, and he is actively hiring researchers to push the frontier of AI in finance using LLMs and agents.
Multimodal AI
His career focus has been on the intersection of NLP and Computer Vision, developing large-scale generative models for language, images, and actions at companies like Google.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Head of Research - Applied AI
Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
1-2020 - 8-2023
Senior Research Scientist
Google
7-2018 - 1-2020
Research Scientist
Georgia Institute of Technology
4-2017 - 6-2017
PhD Intern - Microsoft Research and AI
Microsoft
2-2014 - 2-2015
Robotic Software Engineer
SABRE Autonomous Solutions
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Education
2015 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The Australian National University
2009 - 2012
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
UNSW
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