MARIANN PALHAZI: I think the coolest part of my job is learning a lot, and coding a lot, and building new machine learning models. I am on the alpha gen technology team. And my team is responsible for helping the BlackRock investment groups to make the investment decisions better and make the investment outcomes better.
The project I am working on is about extracting insights and intelligence from streaming financial news. And we use this feature to feed in various investment models. In this part of my career, I never imagined to get an exciting project like this.
I find it exciting because it’s really fun and creative work. And I learn a lot of new technology. The project I’m working on is building new technologies for BlackRock involving machine learning and deep learning. If we get this right, our investors will make better decisions. And if that happens, we change the lives of real people, because we are here helping people save for retirement.
BlackRock provided me courses to learn the Python programming language. And now I am a Python programmer. So I find this very exciting.