Dr. Sonia Schulenburg
Dr. Sonia Schulenburg is the founder, CEO and Director of Edinburgh-based Schulenburg Capital Limited, founder and Director of Level E Capital SICAV PLC and Portfolio Manager of its flagship quantitative absolute return fund The Maya Fund.
Sonia holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a BEng in Computer Engineering (Honours, summa cum laude) from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Sonia has developed both, her technical and business skills concurrently. She holds a Professional Certificate in Accounting from the University of California, San Diego and a Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Strategy and Finance from Edinburgh Napier University, where she graduated with Distinction in both.
Sonia was Partner of West Coast Fisheries in San Diego before moving to Investment Management with Accival, the Financial Group of BANAMEX in Mexico City, where she began to carefully articulate her vision of a more intelligent and disciplined approach to financial trading.
Prior to establishing the Level E companies Sonia worked in research in the area of Evolving Artificial Traders for Successful Market Trading, which is the subject of her PhD thesis.
Sonia was awarded the Santa Fe Institute Computational Modelling and Complexity Fellowship in 1999 and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship in 2006.
Academically, Sonia has over a dozen contributions in published book chapters and international conference proceedings. She has a collection of invited presentations, workshops and tutorials internationally. Sonia is a member of Editorial Boards and Committees of several International Journals and Conferences in the areas of Evolutionary Computation, Agents and Computational Finance.
Specialties: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence in Financial Trading, Predictive Technologies, Automated Equity Trading, Investment Management, Long/Short Equity Funds, Developed Markets, Shariah/Islamic Funds, Emerging Markets