Patrick Houlihan

Dr. Houlihan is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon,  APM Stores, responsible for driving end-to-end technical strategy, architecture, and deployment across high-impact initiatives while leading cross-functional engineering teams. Previously, he founded, architect-ed and deployed a financial data analytics company, SentiQuant, and spent fifteen years in high technology roles, where he designed semiconductors into a variety of complex systems. Houlihan earned his doctorate in Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology where his research focus was sentiment analysis through natural language processing and machine learning techniques. He also holds both a BSEE and MBA from Drexel University. His work has appeared in Quantitative Finance, Computational Economics, and the Journal of Investing.