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Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering Elects Professor Marcos López de Prado as International Member

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2 months ago

July 2, 2026

The election recognizes Professor López de Prado’s contributions to computational science and financial machine learning over an international career spanning three decades and three continentsProfessor López de Prado joins a select group of only 71 international membersCurrent and former international members include distinguished scientists and technologists, among them Nobel laureates, Turing Award winners, and members of foreign national academies

ABU DHABI, UAE, July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Real Academia de Ingeniería, Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering and the country’s national academy in the field, has elected ADIA Lab Advisory Board member Professor Marcos López de Prado as an international member (Académico Correspondiente), in recognition of his pioneering contributions to computational science and financial machine learning.

Established by Royal Decree and integrated into the Institute of Spain, the Academy belongs to CAETS, the global council of leading national engineering academies. Its mission is to place engineering expertise at the service of the public interest: providing independent advice to governments and public authorities, advancing engineering science and its technological applications, disseminating knowledge, and setting standards and best practices. Election to the Academy is among Spain’s highest scientific honors, a distinction currently held by only 71 international members.

In addition to his role with ADIA Lab, Professor López de Prado is Global Head – Quantitative Research & Development at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Professor of Practice at Cornell University’s College of Engineering, Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Office of Science), and Professor of Practice at Khalifa University’s Department of Mathematics. In 2024, he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Royal Order of Civil Merit, a major state decoration, by His Majesty King Felipe VI and the Government of Spain.

The Academy’s election of Professor López de Prado recognizes his role in establishing financial machine learning as a rigorous discipline at the intersection of engineering, computational science, statistics and investment practice, as well as the international adoption and influence of his methods across academia and the investment industry.

Membership is for life, limited in number, and not open to application. Election follows a peer-led process: candidates are nominated by Academy members, evaluated by the Admissions Board, and elected at a plenary session by an absolute majority of all members entitled to vote. Current and former international members include distinguished scientists and technologists, among them Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize, Physics), Zhores Alferov (Nobel Prize, Physics), Werner Arber (Nobel Prize, Medicine), Norman Borlaug (Nobel Prize, Peace), John Hennessy (Turing Award), Judea Pearl (Turing Award), Maurice V. Wilkes (Turing Award), and around 60 members of foreign national academies.

Professor López de Prado is the first member of the Academy elected with residence in the United Arab Emirates, further strengthening the Academy’s links with the UAE’s scientific and technological ecosystem. He will formally receive the medal and diploma of international membership at the investiture ceremony that will be held this October at the historic Palace of Villafranca in Madrid, where the Academy is headquartered.

H.E. Jaime Domínguez Abascal, President of the Academy, remarked: “Professor López de Prado’s election acknowledges his central role in pioneering engineering methods that solve complex financial problems, as well as his development of machine learning algorithms now deployed across the global investment industry. His work bridges academia and practice, demonstrating how engineering principles and methods can enhance high-stakes decision-making in domains of broad economic, societal and institutional importance.”

Dr. Horst Simon, ADIA Lab’s Director, commented: “Election to a national academy is among the highest honors a scientist can receive. Professor López de Prado’s election is a proud moment for ADIA Lab and further underscores the exceptional caliber of our Advisory Board, which includes several Nobel Prize laureates, Turing Award winners, and National Academicians. We warmly congratulate Marcos on this well-deserved recognition.”

Professor López de Prado expressed his appreciation for this election: “I am grateful to Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering, whose members exemplify scientific and technological excellence around the world. Engineering is not limited to physical artifacts—it is the disciplined design of solutions to technical problems under real-world constraints. Financial machine learning applies engineering methods to one of society’s most complex systems: global financial markets. I am honored that the Academy embraces this vision, and I hope my election inspires future generations to pursue engineering approaches to finance for the advancement of knowledge and the benefit of society.”

About Marcos López de Prado

Dr. Marcos López de Prado is Global Head – Quantitative Research & Development at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), and a founding board member of ADIA Lab, Abu Dhabi’s center for research in data and computational sciences. He is also a Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Professor of Practice at Cornell University’s College of Engineering. In 2024, His Majesty King Felipe VI and the Government of Spain appointed him Knight Officer of the Royal Order of Civil Merit, “for distinguished services to science and the global investment industry.” The U.S. Congress has invited him to testify on AI policy, he is the named inventor on 15 patents, and the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) ranks him among the 10 most-read authors in Economics. He has published several influential graduate textbooks and more than 100 scientific journal articles with over 50 co-authors, including several Nobel laureates. For more information, visit https://QuantResearch.org/

About ADIA Lab

ADIA Lab is an independent institution engaged in basic and applied research in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and High-Performance and Quantum Computing, across all major fields of study. This includes exploring applications in areas such as climate change and energy transition, blockchain technology, financial inclusion and investing, decision making, automation, cybersecurity, health sciences, education, telecommunications, and space. Based in Abu Dhabi, ADIA Lab is an independent, standalone entity supported by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), a globally-diversified investment institution that invests funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi. ADIA Lab has its own governance and operational structure, and is guided by an Advisory Board of global thought leaders in data and computationally-intensive disciplines, to pursue its research independently. For more information, visit https://www.adialab.ae/

About Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering

The Real Academia de Ingeniería is Spain’s Royal Academy of Engineering and the country’s national academy in the field. Created by Royal Decree 859/1994, it forms part of the Institute of Spain, which brings together Spain’s national Royal Academies. The Academy falls under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Felipe VI, a constitutional function assigned to the King by Article 62(j) of the Spanish Constitution. Its mission is to place engineering expertise at the service of the public interest: providing independent advice to governments and public authorities, advancing engineering science and its technological applications, disseminating knowledge, and setting standards and best practices. The Academy is officially headquartered at the historic Palace of Villafranca, a prominent cultural heritage site in central Madrid, which was formally inaugurated by His Majesty King Juan Carlos in 2010. It is a member of the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences (CAETS), the global council of leading national engineering academies, alongside institutions such as the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. It is also a founding member of the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering (Euro-CASE). For more information, visit https://www.raing.es/

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Introhive Makes Relationship Intelligence Available to Enterprise AI Through MCP

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42 minutes ago

August 25, 2026

Now generally available to all Introhive customers, the standards-based connection brings continuously updated relationship context into compatible AI assistants.

FREDERICTON, NB, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Introhive today announced the general availability of its MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server for all customers. The Introhive MCP Server gives firms a standardized way to connect their relationship intelligence to their AI infrastructure. Professionals can then query that intelligence directly, without switching systems or performing manual lookups, and without needing IT to build custom integrations.

Centralizing enterprise data is only part of the work. For firms building their own AI tools, the difficulty often emerges after the initial connection. Activity data must still be resolved to the correct people and companies, evaluated for relationship strength and recency, and kept current as interactions change. Without that work, an AI tool can be technically connected and still provide poor guidance. Introhive has built and continuously maintains that relationship-intelligence layer. The MCP Server makes it available to compatible AI assistants, agents, and internally developed applications.

Ask which contacts at an upcoming event are worth prioritizing. Find out which key account has gone quiet. Surface which colleague has the warmest path into a new client or expanded opportunity. Or help a firm’s own AI tool assess whether a proposed client introduction is actually warranted — instead of guessing from CRM fields nobody has updated in months.

Most firms are deploying AI without access to one of their most valuable assets: the context around firm-wide relationships. The signals exist across emails, calendars, contact histories and individual experience. Raw activity alone cannot tell an AI tool whether it has identified the correct person, how strong or current a relationship is, or who within the firm has the most credible path forward.

The Introhive MCP Server Advantage

For more than 14 years, Introhive has refined its approach to capturing, validating, and scoring those relationship signals. The platform goes beyond who knows whom; it evaluates factors including the recency, frequency, reciprocity, breadth, and depth of interactions across the firm, then organizes them into a continuously updated, firm-wide relationship graph.

Because MCP is an open standard, firms using the MCP Server can make the same relationship-intelligence layer available to multiple compatible tools rather than rebuilding a separate connection each time their AI environment changes. Unlike a custom API that locks relationship intelligence to a single tool, the MCP Server is model-agnostic by design: the graph doesn’t depend on which AI assistant wins next year, because it was never built into just one of them.

AI Can’t Drive Growth Without Relationship Context

As AI assistants become a more common interface for professional work, the quality of their answers increasingly depends on the intelligence underneath them. For professional services firms, relationships are central to winning new business, expanding client work and protecting important accounts.

The shift toward AI does not reduce the value of those relationships. It raises the cost of not having accurate relationship context available when growth decisions are made.

“I’ve watched enterprise technology evolve since the 1990s, but the shift now underway is more fundamental,” said Lee Blakemore, CEO of Introhive. “The way professionals interact with data and systems has been revolutionized, and the interface is wherever the professional happens to work, which means the intelligence layers underneath it create the value. Relationship intelligence is one of those foundational layers. A meaningful AI strategy must tap into the strength, reach, and trajectory of client relationships. Introhive’s MCP Server provides a secure, compliant, and portable way to make that intelligence available to compatible AI tools at the moment it’s needed. For organizations adopting AI responsibly, this is the infrastructure that helps them do so securely.”

Availability

The Introhive MCP Server is now generally available to all Introhive customers, expanding beyond the legal-sector commercial preview introduced in April 2026.

For more information, visit https://www.introhive.com/introhive-mcp/.

About Introhive

Introhive is the Relationship Intelligence Platform purpose-built for legal, accounting, consulting and built-environment firms. Introhive automatically captures, enriches and activates relationship data, turning emails, meetings and interactions into measurable relationship capital: the collective value of every client, prospective client, alumni and referral relationship across the firm.

Because that data is captured continuously and kept current without manual effort, Introhive gives professionals and AI tools the reliable, timely context they need to identify the right connections and support firm growth. Introhive is trusted by 20 of the world’s top 100 law firms and 36 of the top 100 accounting firms, with users in more than 90 countries.

For more information, visit https://www.introhive.com/.

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Fins Adds Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed to Power FinScores

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42 minutes ago

August 25, 2026

Premium US Equities Newsfeed gives Fins’ AI engine faster, higher-quality signal

DETROIT, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Benzinga, a leading provider of real-time financial news and market intelligence, today announced that Fins has added Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed to its platform.

Fins is built around surfacing the market-moving signal inside the news noise. A fast, high-quality equities newsfeed is the raw fuel for that engine, giving Fins sharper and faster FinScores. Each FinScore assigns a numeric, ticker-specific score to a news event’s likely market impact, paired with AI-generated reasoning and tracked against real price movement after the news breaks.

The addition reflects Benzinga’s broader mission to democratize financial information, putting institutional-grade market intelligence directly into the hands of everyday investors. Fins represents a new generation of AI-native apps built on that same idea.

“Retail investors don’t only want more news. They want to know which headlines actually matter,” said Michael Saad, AI Licensing Lead at Benzinga. “Fins is built around that idea, and we’re glad to be the newsfeed powering it.”

“The best investment decisions begin with trusted information,” said Mehmet Kağan Aydoğan, Founder & CEO of Fins. “At Fins, our mission is to become the trusted destination for reliable financial news. Our partnership with Benzinga enables us to deliver high-quality financial news, while Fins provides the context that helps investors understand why each story matters.”

Benzinga’s Premium US Equities Newsfeed delivers fast, high-quality coverage across U.S. equities, giving platforms like Fins the raw material to build sharper analysis and scoring tools on top of real-time market data.

About Benzinga

Benzinga is a leading financial media and data technology company that empowers investors with high-quality, real-time market intelligence. Through its news platform, APIs, and data products, Benzinga provides traders, financial institutions, and fintech platforms with the insights they need to make smarter investment decisions. From breaking news and analyst ratings to corporate events and alternative datasets, Benzinga’s tools help market participants stay ahead of the information that drives price movement.

To learn more, visit benzinga.com/apis.

About Fins

Fins is an AI-driven financial intelligence platform that helps investors understand not just what is happening in the markets, but why it matters. By combining trusted financial news with AI-powered event classification and the mathematical FinScore Engine, Fins transforms complex market information into clear, actionable insights. Instead of simply aggregating headlines, Fins identifies the companies affected, classifies each event into standardized market categories and evaluates its potential market relevance through a transparent mathematical scoring model. With personalized news feeds, real-time alerts and contextual analysis, Fins enables investors to make faster, more informed decisions with confidence.

To learn more, visit fins.news.

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Amity Global Research Hub Launches in New York to Boost India-US Innovation

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42 minutes ago

August 25, 2026

The Amity Global Research Hub (AGRH) is a multidisciplinary international platform established by Amity University to foster world-class research collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, and policy engagement across global ecosystems. AGRH enables collaborative research that addresses pressing global challenges while creating opportunities for scientific discovery, economic development, and societal transformation.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In a significant step towards strengthening India–United States collaboration in science, technology and innovation, the Amity Global Research Hub (AGRH) was inaugurated at the Consulate General of India, New York, on August 21, 2026, under the theme “Shaping the Future through Emerging Technologies.”

Amity Global Research Hub Launched in New York to Strengthen India–US Research and Innovation Partnerships

The launch marks the beginning of an international research platform envisioned to bring together academic institutions, researchers, industry, innovators and other stakeholders from India, the United States and the wider global ecosystem. The initiative aims to facilitate collaborative research, promote knowledge exchange and create new pathways for innovation and technology-led solutions to global challenges.

The inauguration also witnessed the unveiling of the AGRH website and research brochure, followed by panel discussions focusing on multi-sector partnerships, research, innovation, emerging technologies, and opportunities for strengthening India–US collaboration. The discussions brought together distinguished representatives and academic and research stakeholders from institutions including Rutgers University, Georgia Institute of Technology, CUNY, Long Island University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Aseem Chauhan, Chancellor, Amity University and Chairman, AGRH, highlighted the importance of creating globally connected research ecosystems that can address increasingly complex technological and societal challenges. AGRH is envisioned as more than an international academic presence. It seeks to function as a bridge connecting the research strengths, talent and innovation capabilities of India with the extensive academic, scientific, technological and entrepreneurial ecosystem of the United States.

The initiative comes at a time when emerging technologies are rapidly transforming economies and societies, creating both new opportunities and complex challenges. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, advanced materials, biotechnology, healthcare technologies, cybersecurity, space technologies and clean and sustainable technologies increasingly require interdisciplinary and international collaboration.

Dr. Sandeep Mittan Director Amity Global Research Hub & Vice President Research and Development highlighted how AGRH will serve as a platform to foster international research partnerships and advance innovation through collaboration between India and the United States. This initiative will be the creation of opportunities for young researchers, students and innovators to participate in international research networks.

AGRH aims to contribute to this process by facilitating interactions among researchers and institutions and supporting opportunities for knowledge exchange and collaborative engagement. The Hub’s broader vision is to create meaningful opportunities not only for established researchers but also for emerging scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs.

The establishment of AGRH in New York provides access to one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic ecosystems of universities, research institutions, technology companies, healthcare organizations, investors, start-ups and global talent. This environment provides significant opportunities for building connections between Indian researchers and their counterparts in the United States. The launch event itself reflected this potential, bringing together representatives from leading American academic and research institutions for discussions around collaborative research and innovation.

Prof. (Dr.) W. Selvamurthy, President, Amity Science, Technology & Innovation Foundation, emphasized the importance of collaboration in shaping the next generation of research and innovation. The multidisciplinary approach of AGRH is particularly significant as many of today’s major challenges cut across traditional academic boundaries. Addressing issues related to health, climate change, energy, advanced manufacturing, digital technologies and national and global security requires researchers from multiple disciplines to work together. The Hub therefore aims to facilitate an ecosystem in which ideas can move from research and discovery to innovation, technology development and societal impact.

Strengthening the India-US Knowledge Partnership : The launch of AGRH also comes against the backdrop of the expanding strategic relationship between India and the United States in science, technology, education and innovation. The initiative’s emphasis on multi-sector partnerships is particularly significant. Rather than limiting collaboration to academic institutions, AGRH aims to create connections involving research organizations, industry, innovators, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.

The inauguration of AGRH represents an important milestone in Amity’s continued efforts to expand its international research partnerships and strengthen collaboration between India and the United States. The long-term ambition is to develop AGRH into a platform where global research partnerships can generate tangible outcomes-ranging from collaborative research and knowledge exchange to technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship and opportunities for the next generation of researchers.

With its launch in New York, the Amity Global Research Hub seeks to position itself at this intersection-connecting India’s growing research and innovation capabilities with global opportunities, and contributing to a future shaped by collaboration, technology and knowledge.

Learn more about Amity Global Research Hub at https://amity.edu/agrh/

Dr. Sandeep Mittan, PhD , FAHA

Director Amity Global Research Hub

Vice President Research and Development

Amity Education Group Long Island Campus, New York

500 Montauk Hwy, Oakdale, NY 11769

Executive Board Member New Jersey Academy of Science (NJAS), New Jersey

Research Scholar – National Institute of Health-NIH,MD 20892

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