Jeffrey Owen Katz
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D. was a recognized child prodigy in electronics engineering. He is best known for the development of innovative AI (artificial intelligence) tools, as well as for his pivotal contribution to the field of factor analysis. While a graduate student at Stony Brook University, Jeff published a new method of factor rotation, contributed to the Numerical Taxonomy Systems Package, and published a number of papers in refereed journals. He was later invited to the University of Lancaster in England, where he applied mathematics and psychometrics to the study of psychophysiology and genetics via sophisticated instrumentation which he designed and built. After receiving his doctorate from Lancaster, Jeff worked at New York University’s Brain Research Lab developing neurometric systems to map brain activity. In 1989, he founded Scientific Consultant Services to provide advanced solutions to difficult data handling problems in diverse fields, with an emphasis on the application of AI to trading the financial markets. He served as Managing Principal, and Director of Trading and System Development of Blackhorn Asset Management, LLC. In 2018, Jeff co-founded, and became Vice President and Principal Investigator of Sanguis Corporation, established to develop non-invasive technology for the measurement of such biochemical analytes as glucose and to contribute to the field of Raman spectroscopy, areas in which he holds patents. Together with co-author and wife, Donna L. McCormick, he has written several books for McGraw-Hill (including the classic, Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies), has contributed to anthologies, and has published dozens of articles in trade magazines. Jeff served on the Board of Directors of the Custer Institute and Observatory for 10 years where, as Observatory and Research Director, he obtained a grant from the Fund for Astrophysical Research to support the Education Through Research program that he established for interns and for which he received a New York State Assembly Proclamation. Since his teens, Jeff has been an amateur radio operator (AC2BQ). He has been a member of Hamptons Observatory’s Advisory Board since 2016.