2026 Annual Member Gathering

Trevor Hastie, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University

Trevor Hastie is the John A Overdeck Professor of Statistics (emeritus) at Stanford University. Hastie is known for his research in applied statistics, particularly in the fields of statistical modeling, bioinformatics and machine learning. He has published seven books and over 200 research articles in these areas.  Prior to joining Stanford University in 1994, Hastie worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories for nine years, where he contributed to the development of the statistical modeling environment popular in the R computing system. He received a B.Sc. (hons) in statistics from Rhodes University in 1976, a M.Sc. from the University of Cape Town in 1979, and a Ph.D from Stanford in 1984.  He is a dual citizen of the United States and South Africa.

Awards and Honors

• 2015 Recipient of 2015 Rhodes University Distinguished Alumni Award.
• 2018 Elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.
• 2018 Honorary Doctorate, Leuphana University, Germany.
• 2019 Recipient of Sigillum Magnum, the highest award from the University of Bologna, Italy.
• 2019 Elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science.
• 2020 Senior Breiman Award, American Statistical Association.
• 2023 Honorary Doctor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada.
• 2025 C.R and Bhargavi Rao prize, Penn State University.
• 2025 Founders of Statistics award, International Statistics Institute.
• 2025 Graham and Dodd Awards of Excellence Top Award, CFA Institute

: trevor-hastie-a6a4735/

Ronald Kahn, PhD

Global Head of Scientific Equity Research, BlackRock

Ronald N. Kahn, PhD, Managing Director, is Global Head of Systematic Investment Research at BlackRock. He has overall responsibility for the research efforts behind BlackRock Systematic products.

His service with the firm dates back to 1998, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Prior to joining BGI, he worked as Director of Research at Barra, where his research covered equity and fixed income markets.

Ronald Kahn is a well-known expert on portfolio management and quantitative investing. He has published numerous articles on investment management, and, with Richard Grinold, authored the influential book Active Portfolio Management: Quantitative Theory and Applications. The two of them are the 2013 winners of James R. Vertin award, presented periodically by the CFA Institute to recognize individuals who have produced a body of research notable for its relevance and enduring value to investment professionals. Their sequel, Advances in Active Portfolio Management, was published in December 2019.

Ronald Kahn is also the author of the 2018 CFA Institute Research Foundation monograph, The Future of Investment Management. He is a 2007 winner of the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award for best article in the Journal of Portfolio Management. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Financial Data Science. The 2007 book How I Became a Quant includes his essay describing his transition from physics to finance.

He earned an AB degree in physics, summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and a PhD in physics from Harvard University. He was a post-doctoral fellow in physics at University of California, Berkeley.

: ronald-kahn-b6953110/