Mihai Toma is a Lecturer at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages (FABIZ), where he teaches topics such as Economics of Information, AI Strategy and Digital Transformation or Decision-making for Business using ML.

He brings over a decade of combined academic and industry experience, with expertise spanning financial markets, behavioral finance, AI, and neurofinance. Mihai developed and conducted the first series of neurofinance experiments in Romania in 2017, pioneering the integration of neural and biometric data into financial decision-making research.

Alongside his academic career, Mihai is currently a Model Manager at the London Stock Exchange Group, applying advanced quantitative methods to sustainable finance models. His professional background also includes roles as a financial engineer at Finastra and as an economist in the Financial Stability Department of the National Bank of Romania.

Mihai holds a PhD in Finance (2018) and was a Fulbright Scholar and postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he spent 2.5 years conducting research at the intersection of finance, technology, and neuroscience.