Robert Hill

Dr. Robert Hill is an adjunct professor for the Online Engineering Programs at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. He has over two decades of experience in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and data science. He has designed financial systems across an array of products and markets in the floor exchange, proprietary trading, and hedge fund industries, and has 15 years of experience as a quantitative portfolio manager for leading firms in New York, Chicago, and Miami.

He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and Cambridge, in history, politics, and economics. He also holds an M.B.A. from NYU, specializing in quantitative finance and data science, and an M.S. in operations research, from Columbia SEAS. His Ph.D. in systems engineering from George Washington University focused on applying graph theory to managing stakeholders in technical and complex organizations. He has also done advanced study in artificial intelligence and quantum computing at Stanford and the University of Chicago. His research interests include network science, machine learning for graphs, resilience, strategic management, stakeholder theory, and portfolio optimization.