Invited talk
by
Jörg Osterrieder, Zurich University of Applied Sciences - ZHAW, School of Engineering, Switzerland
Professor of Finance and Risk Modelling
Jörg Osterrieder is Professor of Finance and Risk Modelling at Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland as well as Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at University of Twente, Netherlands. He has been working in the area of financial statistics, quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and digitisation of the finance industry for more than 15 years. Jörg is the Action Chair of the European COST Action 19130 Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance, an interdisciplinary research network combining 200+ researchers and 38 European countries as well as five international partner countries. He is a founding associate editor of Digital Finance, an editor of Frontiers Artificial Intelligence in Finance and frequent reviewer for academic journals. In addition, he serves as an expert reviewer for the European Commission on the "Executive Agency for Small & Medium-sized Enterprises" and the "European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot" programmes. Previously he worked as an executive director at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, as quantitative analyst at AHL as well as a member of the senior management at Credit Suisse Group. Jörg is now also active at the intersection of academia and industry, focusing on the transfer of research results to the financial services sector in order to implement practical solutions.