Dr. Marcos Lopez de Prado

Global Head of Quantitative R&D, ADIA | Professor of Practice, Cornell University

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Dr. Marcos Lopez de Prado is the Global Head of Quantitative Research & Development at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and a Professor of Practice at Cornell University's College of Engineering. He has published dozens of scientific papers on financial machine learning and backtest overfitting, earning multiple Quant of the Year awards.

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researchChecked Sep 20, 2026

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA): Empirical Domain-Specific AI Evaluation Benchmark & Methodology

An empirical evaluation methodology developed by Dr. Marcos Lopez de Prado at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), establishing standardized performance metrics, domain-specific evaluation sets, and error taxonomy protocols.

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Evaluation benchmark protocol; empirical accuracy reflects specific test distributions and requires periodic refresh.

Context: Benchmarked across domain-specific validation sets and human golden baselines.

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researchChecked Sep 20, 2026

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA): Domain-Specific AI Evaluation Benchmark & Methodology

An empirical evaluation methodology developed by Dr. Marcos Lopez de Prado at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), establishing standardized performance metrics, domain-specific evaluation sets, and error taxonomy protocols.

Scope & limitations

Evaluation benchmark protocol; empirical accuracy reflects specific test distributions and requires periodic refresh.

Context: Mathematical finance, combinatorial cross-validation, and portfolio optimization.

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