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David S. Wood

David Sargent Wood, Ph.D., is Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Managing Director at Nuveen Brooklyn, where he leads portfolio technology development and runs the portfolio management team, including the firm's day-to-day systematic investment processes. Before Nuveen's 2025 acquisition of Brooklyn, he... more

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Education

  1. The financial clinic: interaction engineering in financial services
  2. XY problems: ask for the outcome
  3. Reconciling realiy: a real world framework for financial engineering (draft)
  4. LLM internals specimen sheet
  5. The Bauhütte Standard: reality before loyalty
  6. Co-Brain: l’approche de la mer, and why AGI may never emerge from LLMs
  7. Deep persuasion: grokking, storehouse, and weights
  8. Hiring against the room
  9. Bend the chimney; move the firewood
  10. Worse is better and the right thing
  11. Good companies and good-looking companies: lost dimensions of work
  12. Cognitive resignation: LLM and the hollowing of expertise
  13. How much customization should a financial platform offer?
  14. Markov processes and Kolmogorov equations
  15. Reflections on financial advisory and portfolio management
  16. Understanding long and short margin mechanics
  17. Deep learning at scale: lesson from experiments from Perlmutter
  18. Scalable GPU programming for exascale: multi-node and multi-GPU strategies
  19. From bricolage to engineering: regularizing complexity
  20. Bayesian deep learning: uncertainty, inductive bias, and modern theory
  21. Selling modern financial products: comparing SMAs, SaaS, and asset management
  22. From physical toil to cognitive burnout: modern labor and the ethics of software design
  23. Internal states, external worlds: concurrency, consensus, and sociotechnical challenges in computing
  24. Engineering speak: prolegomena to ideal technical discourses
  25. Self-healing computation: building resilient financial computational services
  26. Cognitive mirror: how LLMs compress language and challenge our sense of self
  27. Basis trade and treasury deleveraging
  28. The Triffin dilemma and the exorbitant privilege
  29. Client-side connection pool management
  30. Zoo keeping: dynamic assembling based on subclass attributes
  31. Go getters: a monadic way
  32. Take a walk on the functional side: yes, we need monads
  33. Working with distributed workers
  34. Cooperative concurrency with FastAPI: it's the generators, stupid
  35. Wrapping around wrappers: primer on decorators
  36. Simple SSL-based encryption

Research Statement

My research operates at the intersection of high-dimensional financial time series, modern applied mathematics, and computational physics. I’ve always gravitated toward non-parametric, structure-seeking techniques—drawing on geometry, spectral methods, and ideas inspired by quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. I view… more

Research

"The first seven years I'd worked on this problem, I loved every minute of it. However hard it had been."
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