Michael Sury is the managing director of the Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies and an associate professor of practice in finance at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He also leads the graduate MSBA track in financial analytics, serves as a Provost’s Teaching Fellow, and is an elected member of the UT Faculty Council.

Sury has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels for more than 15 years. His courses have covered a variety of topics, including valuation, investment theory, financial management, financial analytics, advanced corporate finance, applied portfolio management, securities markets, and endowment management. He previously served as the dean’s executive professor of finance at Santa Clara University, a lecturer at San Diego State University, and a visiting scholar/adjunct professor of economics at the University of California.

Before his career in academia, Sury worked in industry, beginning in technology research and development, building AI programs and designing intelligent systems architectures at MCC. He later worked for Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. on special projects under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Strategic Defense Initiative and for IBM, where he taught and implemented statistical process control and real-time analytics for manufacturing engineering across the company’s PC production line.


Sury’s research on the optimization of traditional and alternative investments is featured in the anthology “Essential Readings in Applied Financial Economics.” He has delivered more than 90 conference speeches in the U.S. and abroad, and he has appeared on all four major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox), as well as on Bloomberg and CNBC, for his insights and commentary on financial analytics and the capital markets.

Sury earned a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MBA in finance and statistics from the University of Chicago.