Dr. Andrey Itkin is Director of Financial Engineering at HAP Capital LLC and Adjunct Professor of computational and algorithmic finance at NYU Poly. His academic experience includes positions of leading researcher with the  Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior researcher at St.Petersburg Technical University, Visiting Fellow at Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA,  and Moscow Aviation University where for 14 years he worked as a Full Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics. 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 physics of liquids, gases and plasma, and degree of Doctor of Science in computational molecular physics. 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 is a member of multiple professional associations in finance and physics.

Andrey also occupied multiple managerial positions in financial industry. He used to work as Director at Financial Engineering, Chicago Trading Company, Head of Quantitative Strategies and partner 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.