About the Author

Dimitrios Iliopoulos is an Associate Professor of Medicine, in the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and the Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Systems Biomedicine, a high technology center combining novel technologies aiming to expedite the drug discovery process for different human diseases. Furthermore, he is founder of Algorithm Therapeutics Inc, a biotech company developing epigenetic drugs for patients with inflammatory diseases. He started his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. He has received an Executive MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management, having a specialization in financial valuation and modeling of the biotechnology and healthcare sectors. More recently, Dr. Iliopoulos received a certificate from Stanford Graduate School of Business on Mergers & Acquisitions. Dimitrios is a consultant to several pharma and biotech companies and has collaborated with venture capital firms and major investment banks in projects related to biotech company financial valuation. Jason Hsu is the CEO and Chairman of Rayliant Global Advisors, an investment management firm focused on smart beta strategies tailored to the Asian markets as well as Chinese equity strategies targeted at foreign institutional investors. Jason graduated with a BS in physics from the California Institute of Technology, an MS in Finance from Stanford University and a PhD in Finance from UCLA, where he conducted research on the equity premium and portfolio allocations. Currently, he is a Member of the Board of Directors at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Finance. He is also a co-founder of Research Affiliates, currently serving as a Vice Chairman and Advisor. Building on his pioneering work on the RAFI Fundamental Index approach to investing, he has published numerous articles on the topic, notably including "A survey of alternative equity index strategies", which won a 2011 Graham and Dodd Schroll and the Readers' Choice Award from the CFA Institute. In 2013, he received the William F. Sharpe Award for Best New Index Research. Dr. Hsu has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and he is an Associate Editor in the Journal of Investment Management.