Benjamin E. Van Vliet

Associate Director, M.S. Finance
Associate Director, M.S. Financial Economics
Associate Director, Ph.D. Finance
Associate Professor of Finance
Director, Center for Strategic Finance

Faculty

Stuart School of Business

Ben Van Vliet is an associate professor at Stuart, where he teaches courses in fintech and quantitative finance, including machine learning for finance, financial modeling in Python, high frequency finance, C++, and automated trading system design and development. He is also the director of the Stuart Center for Strategic Finance, which aims to stimulate critical thinking and discussion on issues related to strategic innovation in finance and its impact on market effectiveness.

Since 2024, he has served as the co-editor in chief of Algorithmic Finance, an academic journal that bridges finance, technology, and innovation. His numerous research articles have been published in leading journals such as Information & Management, Applied Economics, International Journal of Innovation Management, Algorithmic Finance, Journal of Derivatives, Review of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Wilmott, Quantitative Finance, Journal of Trading, Business Ethics Quarterly, Science and Engineering Ethics, Journal of Information Technology, and Economics Letters, among others. He is also the author of three books on algorithmic trading/investment—Quality Money Management with A. Kumiega (2008, Elsevier/Academic Press), Modeling Financial Markets with R. Hendry (2004, McGraw-Hill), and Building Automated Trading Systems (2007, Elsevier/Academic Press).

He has been quoted and mentioned extensively in the national media on high frequency trading, including Bloomberg TV, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, WIRED, IEEE Spectrum, Institutional Investor, Automated Trader, and Reuters. His research on ethics in high frequency trading has been featured in Forbes. He served for seven years on the Probable Cause/Business Conduct Committee of the CME Group. He is currently a member of the Product Advisory Committee of the Digital Token Identifier Foundation.