HEATH WINDCLIFF, PH.D

Managing Director, Head of the Quantitative Research

MORGAN STANLEY

Heath Windcliff, Managing Director, is the head of the Quantitative Research team at MS which is responsible for equity algorithmic trading research and development. He actively works on the design of the optimization tools, price forecasting processes, market impact models, limit order worker and venue selection models used in our products. He is also responsible for the PostTrade analytics framework that MS uses to design and tune the algorithmic offering for the use cases and needs of users and clients. Heath has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 2003 following a Masters and Bachelors in Applied Mathematics where he studied numerical optimization and control theory.