Dr. Stephen Malinak is Global Head of Quantitative Research for Thomson Reuters, serving Investment and Advisory customers in all of the world’s major financial centers. His team builds a wide variety of innovative analytics, quant factors, and quant models based on the vast range of Thomson Reuters content sets. He was Director of Quantitative Research for StarMine prior to its acquisition by Thomson Reuters. Previously, he worked as a litigation consultant at LECG, valuing businesses and intellectual property in the telecommunications, high tech, and pharmaceuticals industries. As a strategy consultant for Strategic Decisions Group, he constructed detailed probabilistic cash flow forecasts for portfolios of new products and new business ventures. He built a practice area around commodity price forecasting and risk management, based on fundamental supply/demand analysis as well as stochastic process models. Stephen has a Ph.D. and M.S. from Stanford in Engineering-Economic Systems. He also has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he studied acoustics under Dr. Bose.