Meninder (Mike) Purewal is a Data Scientist for the Equities Sales & Trading business at Bank of America with a decade of experience in the financial industry. His areas of expertise include mathematical modeling, programming, and data analytics. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU teaching Machine Learning in Finance. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University where he pioneered cutting-edge research on electron transport in low dimensional materials and authored several high-impact papers.