about the author

Mark Liu is a tenured finance professor and the founding director of the master of science in finance program at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of four books: Make Python Talk (No Starch Press, 2021), Machine Learning, Animated (CRC Press, 2023), AlphaGo Simplified (CRC Press, 2024), and Learn Generative AI with PyTorch (Manning, 2024). Mark obtained his PhD in finance from Boston College. Mark has published his research in top finance journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science.