Prof. Leman Akoglu, CMU
Leman Akoglu is the Heinz College Dean's Associate Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds courtesy appointments in the Computer Science Department (CSD) and Machine Learning Department (MLD) of School of Computer Science (SCS). Dr. Akoglu's research awards include the Best Research Paper (SIAM SDM 2019), Best Student Machine Learning Paper Runner-up (ECML PKDD 2018), Best Paper Runner-up (SIAM SDM 2016), Best Research Paper (SIAM SDM 2015), Best Paper (ADC 2014), and Best Knowledge Discovery Paper (ECML PKDD 2009). She holds 3 U.S. patents filed by IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs. Her research has been supported by the NSF, US ARO, DARPA, Adobe, Capital One Bank, Facebook, Northrop Grumman, PNC Bank, PwC, and Snap Inc.
Prof. Yongjae Lee, UNIST
Yongjae Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Graduate School at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). Dr. Lee utilizes quantitative techniques such as ML/AI and optimization to analyze financial data and derive optimal decisions. He is particularly interested in analyzing individual and household financial activities to draw useful insights and design customized services. He is an advisory editorial board member for the Journal of Financial Data Science and served as an organizing committee member(workshop chair) of ICAIF'24. He has applied ML/AI techniques to develop financial services through projects with several financial and IT companies and government agencies. Dr. Lee is an advisor professor of LinqAlpha and a member of AI in Finance Committee of Financial Services Commission of Korea. He received his B.S. degree in computer science and mathematical sciences and Ph.D. degree in industrial and systems engineering from KAIST.
Prof. Ha Young Kim, Yonsei University
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Dhagash Mehta, PhD
Dhagash Mehta is the Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence Research at BlackRock, Inc. and an Editorial Board Member at the Journal of Financial Data Science and Journal of ESG and Impact Investing (both PMR journals). Previously he was a Senior Manager, Investment Strategist (Machine Learning – Asset Allocation) at Investment Strategy Group at The Vanguard Group. Before joining Vanguard, he was a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies (UTX) Research Center. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics in conjunction with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Notre Dame. He was a Fields Institute Postdoc Fellow for the Thematic Program on Computer Algebra at Fields Institute, Toronto, in Fall 2015 and a Visiting Fellow at Simons Institute for Theory of Computing at Berkeley in Fall 2014. Previously, he has held various research positions at the University of Cambridge (the UK), Imperial College London (the UK), the University of Adelaide (Australia), Syracuse University (USA) and National University of Ireland Maynooth (Ireland).
He was General Chair of large conferences such as ACM-ICAIF’24, Fields Workshop on Machine Learning for Investor Modeling, Sanya Workshop on Algebraic Geometry and Machine Learning, Conference on Statistical Topology and Random Manifolds at ICTP Trieste, etc., and has organized numerous emerging area workshops at SIAM, ACM ICAIF, AAAI, Neurips, etc.
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