Full Day on August 9, 2026 by popular demand!
[8 am to 8:15 am] Saurabh Nagrecha, PhD, Google
[8:15 am to 8:45 am] Prof. Leman Akoglu, CMU. Advancing Outlier Detection with Foundation Models
[8:45 am to 9:15 am] Prof. Yongjae Lee, UNIST. How LLMs are Revolutionizing Quantitative Investment
[9:15 AM – 9:30 am] Morning Opening Q&A / Transition Buffer
9:30 am to 10:00 am
10 minute + 5 minutes Q&A/Transition
[10:00 am to 10:15 am] FinMamba: Market-Aware Graph Enhanced Multi-Level Mamba for Stock Movement Prediction. Yifan Hu, Peiyuan Liu, Naiqi Li, Shu-tao Xia (Tsinghua University), Yuante Li (Carnegie Mellon University), Dawei Cheng (Tongji University), Tao Dai (Shenzhen University), Jigang Bao (Wukong Investment)
[10:15 am to 10:30 am] PRISM: Prompt-Refined In-Context System Modeling for Financial Retrieval Chun Chet Ng (University of Malaya), Jia Yu Lim, Wei Zeng Low (AI Lens)
[10:30 am to 10:45 am] Deployment-Side Adaptiveness in Multi-Horizon Volatility Forecasting Riku Green, Zahraa Abdallah (University of Bristol), Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho (University of Bristol)
[10:45 am to 11:00 am] TaFiB: Tabular Financial Banking Dataset with Realistic Fraud Scenarios Toward Effective Fraud Detection Benchmarking Dae-Young Park, Songi Hwang (Financial Security Institute), In-Young Ko (KAIST)
[11:00 am to 11:15 am] VALID: A 12-Item Validation Checklist for Financial Machine Learning Jaewook Kim (Independent Researcher)
[11:15 am to 11:30 am] Your Spending Needs Attention: Modeling Financial Habits with Transformers Daniel Braithwaite, Misael Cavalcanti, R. Austin McEver, Hiroto Udagawa, Daniel Silva, Rohan Ramanath, Arissa Yoshida, Evan Wingert, Matheus Ramos, Brian Zanfelice, Aman Gupta (Nubank), Felipe Meneses (Stealth Startup)
[11:30 am to 11:45 am] Policy-Induced Label Censoring in Fraud Detection: Identifiability Limits and Metric Distortion Taehun Kim, Mingzhe Wu, Guoxiang Ding (Coupang Inc.)
[11:45 am to 12:00 noon] Hierarchical Reinforced Trader (HRT): A Bi-Level Approach for Optimizing Stock Selection and Execution Zijie Zhao, Roy Welsch (MIT)
12 noon to 1 pm
10 mins including Q&A/Transition.
1 pm to 2:20 pm
RAFR: A Risk-Aware, Explainable Framework for Financial Recommendations under Empirical Risk Constraint Lianli Ding, Liyuan Zheng (Ningbo Polytechnic University), Zichen Yuan (Independent Researcher), Zhimo Han (Cornell University)
Impact-Driven Event Embeddings for Context-Aware Forecasting and Anomaly Detection in Financial Time Series Elham Alipour, Xiaoli Zhang, Boyang Jin, Yu Gao, Alex Moschos, Eugene Kim, Miriam Teng (Amazon)
Leveraging Active Lifetime-Awareness for Enhancing Detection Accuracy of Fraudulent Financial Transactions in The Banking Sector Dae-Young Park, Jinyoung Jung (Financial Security Institute), Youngjun Kwak (KakaoBank), In-Young Ko (KAIST)
Detection, Attribution, Narration: An End-to-End Pipeline for Explainable Money Mule Identification Yuge Zhang, Yuanxing Zhang, Yichao Jin, Khairul Amsyar Mohd Razis, Nicholas Qi An Choo, Kai Yin, Anders Wong, Xinyan Tang, Kenneth Zhu, Wee Keong, Dennis Lee, Jingyuan Zhao (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited)
Causal Transformer for Retail Investor Policy Evaluation: Time-Varying Treatment Effects with Macro-Exogenous Representation Learning Sanghyun Jung, Cristián Bravo (Western University)
From Accuracy to Auditability: A Survey of Determinism in Financial AI Systems Ruizhe Zhou, Xiaoyang Liu, Gaoyuan Du, Yi Zheng, Shouxi Ren, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Dengdu Jiang (Amazon)
When Prediction Leaderboards Can Fail: Benchmarking the Prediction–Execution Gap Ke Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Yangyang Liang (Guangdong University of Technology), Xiaorui Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
SimGuard: Context-Aware Anomaly Filtering via Similarity-Guided Error Detection Amir Raza, Mayank Jauhari, Vikash Sharma, Vipul Joshi, Rishabh Yadav, Anuarg Tripathi (Amazon)
[OFFLINE] Injecting Domain Knowledge into Transformers: A Collocation-Aware Attention for ECB Monetary Policy Stance Classification Davide Paris, Elisabetta Fersini (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Martina Menzio (Università de)
[2:20 pm to 2:50 pm] Prof. Ha Young Kim, Yonsei University. Trustworthy Multimodal Financial AI: From Market Understanding to Reliable Decision-Making
2:50 pm to 3:30 pm
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm. Saurabh Nagrecha, PhD, Google
3:45 pm to end
Dhagash Mehta, PhD, Blackrock