Mark Bennett is a senior solutions architect at NVIDIA where he focuses on acceleration for trading customer workloads. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a PhD in Computer Science from UCLA and has taught graduate business analytics for the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago. Mark managed several engineering teams for real-time aerospace and quantitative risk software at Northrop Grumman and Bank of America Securities. After algo-trading foreign exchange and commodity futures he co-authored the book Financial Analytics with R published by Cambridge University Press.