Eric Ghysels holds the inaugural Edward M. Bernstein Distinguished Professorship of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a professor of finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. He obtained his PhD from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has been a visiting professor or scholar at several major US, European, and Asian universities. He served on the editorial boards of several academic journals and was co-editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics. He has published in the leading economics, finance, and statistics journals and has published several books. He is also the founding co-president of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). He was a resident scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the 2008–2009 financial crisis and a Duisenberg Fellow at the European Central Bank in 2011 during the sovereign debt crisis. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, a fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, and holds an honorary doctorate from HEC Liege. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics and faculty research director of the Rethinc.Labs at the Kenan Institute. His most recent research focuses on MIDAS (meaning mixed data sampling) regression models and related econometric methods, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, FinTech, and quantum computing applications in finance.