Douglas Hamilton heads AI research and engineering at Nasdaq. He joined Nasdaq in 2017 as a data scientist and has developed solutions for financial markets around data and AI. Hamilton’s achievements at Nasdaq include establishing the first AI-powered strike listing system and SEC-approved market order type, . A U.S. Air Force veteran having also published over a dozen patents, Hamilton was previously the lead data scientist at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, has a Master of Science in Systems Engineering from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Springfield.