Dr. Andrey Itkin is Director at Financial Engineering of HAP Capital LLC. He is also full professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Moscow State Aviation University and Adjunct Professor of the Department of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey where he teaches computational finance. Prior to the current positions he worked as Director at Financial Engineering, Chicago Trading Company, Head of Quantitative Strategies at Volant Trading LLC, Senior Quantitative Engineer at Amaranth Group, Project Manager at Bloomberg L.P. (R&D quantitative group) and Programming Manager at Thomson Financial. His prior academic positions include one year as a visiting scholar at UCLA, and 12 years as a leading researcher with the  Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg Technical University and Moscow Aviation University. He also occupied senior managerial positions at the Institute of High Performance computing and Databases of the Russian Ministry of Science (as the Director of Operation and Research of the Moscow Branch) and at the International Institute for Problems of the Asteroid Hazard (as the Deputy Director). He also served as an expert of Russian-American committees on scientific collaboration, supercomputing and digital libraries.

He received his PhD in computational physics in 1984 and degree of Doctor of Science in computational physics in 1991. During his academic carrier he published 12 books on chemical and theoretical physics and 130 papers including articles in peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of international conferences on chemical, molecular and computational physics, math finance and programming. He also obtained 14 Russian and International grants and was a Principal investigator for 12 of them. Andrey is also an associated editor of the journal "Physics and chemical methods in gasdynamics" and reviewer of some financial and physical journals. He is a member of multiple professional associations in finance and physics.