Mike Chen is Head of the Next Gen Research team. He joined Robeco in 2022. In the period 2016-2022, he worked at PanAgora where he was Head of Sustainable Investments. He was also responsible for model research and development in the Equity Division while managing quantitative portfolios. Prior to joining PanAgora, Mike was a Quant Portfolio Manager at BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equity (SAE) team, where his responsibilities included portfolio management and research into alpha insights for use across the entire SAE platform. Before BlackRock, Mike was a Senior Capital Market Analyst at Google. Mike started his career in the industry in 2005 as an Interest Rates Derivatives Trader at Morgan Stanley. Mike has published in various finance and engineering journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Data Science, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, among others. Mike has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Master’s in Mathematics, and a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, all three from the University of Illinois. He is also a lecturer at MIT Sloan for the course Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Finance.