Workshop on AI in Finance

The importance of Artificial Intelligence has grown a lot in the last decade with companies of different sizes starting their own AI research labs. Recently, this phenomenon started to take place also in the financial service industry with large financial corporations equipping themselves with research departments to appropriately leverage AI in the context of their business. Therefore, this workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners both from industry and academia in order to share and discuss recent advancements in the context of AI applications for financial services. The intended target audience is represented by all AI researchers actively investigating ways to leverage AI in finance, researchers and practitioners that would like to explore potential applications of their work in this domain, and professionals looking for a deeper understanding of the potential application AI has in the context of their business.

This workshop is related to a series of events at the intersection of AI in Finance: AAAI Bridge on AI for Financial Services, ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Financial Services, KDD Finance Day, and KDD Workshop on Machine Learning in Finance.  

Call for Papers

The workshop would like to receive two different types of submissions:

• Extended abstracts of 2-4 pages (including references) presenting challenges or outlining ideas

• Full papers of at most 7 pages (plus at most an additional page for references) presenting an original contribution

Papers must be written in English using the ECAI LaTeX template and they will be reviewed using a double blind process. Please, remove any reference to authors in the paper. The page limits apply to the inclusion of any appendices or supplementary material to the paper which should be submitted in the same PDF. We encourage submissions of ongoing work as well as work that has been recently published, since the venue has no proceedings. 

Link to submissions: WAIFin

Important Dates

• Submissions due: May 23 2024 23:59 AoE

• Notification to authors: July 11 2024 23:59 AoE

• Camera Ready submission deadline: September 17 2024 23:59 AoE

• Workshop date: October 19 2024

Topics

All different types of submissions accept contents on topics that are relevant to general financial problems that may include but are not limited to:

• Generative models and data-driven simulation

• Planning, Search, Constraint-based Reasoning, Optimization, and Reinforcement learning

• Meta learning, federated learning, representation learning and transfer learning

• Natural language processing

• Time series prediction

• Validation and calibration of financial models

• Multi-agent systems and game-theoretic analysis of financial markets

• Explainability, ethics, and fairness of AI & ML systems

• Security, and privacy of AI & ML systems

• Computational regulation and compliance in finance

• Robustness and uncertainty quantification

Potential applications of interest may include but are not limited to:

• Fraud detection for credit cards and mortgages

• Early detection of firm defaults

• Blockchain and cryptocurrency

• Risk modeling and risk management

• Trading (e.g., optimal execution, market making, smart order routing and hedging)

• Pricing strategies

• Robot-advising and investment recommendations

• Forecasting of financial scenarios

• Financial time series analysis and factor models

• Chatbots, automated analysis of documents

Invited Talks

Accepted Papers

Coming Soon

Organizers

Program Commitee

• Deepeka Garg

• Edoardo vittori

• Annapoorani Lakshmi Narayanan

• Leo Ardon

• Senka Krivic

• Alessio Brini

• Nazanin Mehrasa

• Alba Gragera

• Milad Kazemi

• Ashwin Arulselvan

• Tomas De La Rosa Turbides

• Fernando Acero

• Pietro Totis

• James Bowden

• Marianela Morales