Efrem Bonfiglioli
Efrem is a seasoned model risk management professional with a passion for advising model developers and validators on best practices for effective model management in compliance with regulatory requirements.
He has held various roles related to model risk management across multiple lines of defense in leading global banking institutions, covering a wide range of asset classes and risk types.
Efrem is a visiting professor at universities in Italy and the UK where he teaches courses ranging from foundational financial subjects to advanced quantitative modelling.
He earned his PhD in Financial Mathematics, where he focused on researching the applications of jump-diffision models in the context of derivatives pricing.
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Stephen Bates
Stephen is the VP and Chief Architect of Emerging Storage Systems at Huawei's Toronto Emerging Storage Lab. He and his team research all aspects of next-generation storage systems from media to programming interfaces to filesystems to virtualized storage to applications.
Stephen is an expert in performance storage, persistent and non-volatile memory, computer networking, signal processing and error correction coding. He is also very active in both the SNIA and NVM Express standard bodies.
Prior to Huawei he was the CTO of Eideticom which is a pioneer company in NVMe-based computational storage. He was also formerly in the CTO office at PMC-Sierra, an Assistant Professor at The Univeristy of Alberta and a Principal Engineer at Massana Inc. Stephen has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
