Ioana Boier is a senior principal solutions architect at NVIDIA. Her background is in Quantitative Finance and Computer Science research. Prior to joining NVIDIA, she was the head of Quantitative Portfolio Solutions at Alphadyne Asset Management, and led research teams at Citadel LLC, BNP Paribas, and IBM T.J. Watson Research. She has a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University and is the author of multiple peer-reviewed publications, patents, and the winner of several awards for applied research delivered into products.