Laura Serban

Principle, Global Stock Selection Research Group AQR Capital Management

Laura is a Principal and senior member of the Global Stock Selection group at AQR Capital Management. Laura focuses on research and portfolio management across the firm’s equity strategies; she oversees enhancements to the firm’s stock selection models, including in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and data sourcing. Her research on long-only investing and supply chain climate exposure have been published in the Journal of Investing and Financial Analysts Journal. Prior to joining AQR, she was a financial economist at the SEC, a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research and held multiple teaching fellow positions in the economics and computer science departments at Harvard University. Laura earned a B.A. in applied mathematics and economics, an S.M. in computer science and a Ph.D. in business economics, all from Harvard University.