Past Events

Manuela Veloso

JP Morgan AI Research and CMU

Title: AI in Finance: Scope and Examples

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 30th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Josef Teichmann

ETH Zurich

Title: Consistent Recalibration Models, Deep Calibration and Learning of Constraint Dynamics

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 13th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Iuliia Manziuk

Ecole Polytechnique

Title: Adaptive Trading Strategies Across Liquidity Pools

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 27th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Justin Sirignano

University of Oxford

Title: Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 11th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Andreea Minca

Cornell University

Title: Clustering Heterogeneous Financial Networks

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 25th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT





Giuseppe Nuti (UBS & Cornell University) and

Lluís Antoni Jiménez Rugama (UBS) 

Title: Applying Explainable Bayesian Decision Trees to Trading

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 8th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Markus Pelger

Stanford University

Title: Deep Learning Statistical Arbitrage

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 22nd 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Rama Cont

University of Oxford

Title: Learning to Simulate Tail Risk Scenarios

Date/Time: Tuesday, Sept 14th 

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Xin Guo

University of California, Berkeley

Title: Generative Adversarial Network (GANs): Game and Control Perspectives

Date/Time: Tuesday, Sept 28th

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Sebastian Jaimungal

University of Toronto

Title: Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Financial Modeling

Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 12th

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Charles-Albert Lehalle 

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Title: Some Control Problems On Financial Markets And How Their Solutions Can Be Learned

Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 26th

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Hao Ni

University of College London

Title: Conditional Sig-Wasserstein GANs for Time Series Generation

Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov 9th

7pm CEST, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Beatrice Acciaio

ETH Zurich

Title: Generative Adversarial Learning with Adapted Distances

Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov 23rd

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Lukasz Szpruch

University of Edinburgh

Title: Stochastic Control, Gradient Flows and Reinforcement learning 

Date/Time: Tuesday, Dec 14th

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Thaleia Zariphopoulou

University of Texas, Austin

Title: Learning in mean-field games under forward performance criteria

Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan 11th

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Lin Will Cong

Cornell University

Title: Designing AI Models for Finance with An Illustration Using Panel Trees

Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan 25th

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Filipovic Damir 

EPFL and Swiss Finance Institute

Title: Stripping the Discount Curve -- a Robust Machine Learning Approach

Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb 8th

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Nicholas Westray

Alliance Bernstein and NYU

Title: Deep Order Flow Imbalance: Extracting Alpha at Multiple Horizons from the Limit Order Book

Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb 22nd

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Huyên Pham

Université de Paris

Title: Differential learning methods for solving fully nonlinear PDEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 8th

7pm CET, 10am PST, 1pm EST

Nelson Vadori

JP Morgan AI Research

Title: Towards Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning driven Over-The-Counter Market Simulations

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 22nd

7pm CET, 11am PDT, 2pm EDT

Samuel Cohen

University of Oxford

Title: Neural Q-learning solutions to elliptic PDEs

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 5th

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Xunyu Zhou

Columbia University

Title: Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Time and Space

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 19th

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Laura Simonsen Leal

Princeton University

Title: High-Frequency Optimal Execution

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 3rd

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Hanna Sophia Wutte

ETH Zurich

Title: Machine Learning-powered Pricing of the Multidimensional Passport Option

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 3rd

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Mathieu Lauriere 

NYU Shanghai 

Title: Deep learning for mean field master equations

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 31th

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Mete Soner

Princeton University

Title: Deep Optimal Stopping Boundary

Date/Time: Tuesday, Sept 20th

7:30pm CET, 10:30am PDT, 1:30pm EDT

Alessandro Gnoatto

University of Verona

Title: Deep xVA and a solver for BSDEs with jumps

Date/Time: Tuesday, Oct 18th

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Xiaofei Shi

University of Toronto

Title: Equilibrium with Limited Liquidity

Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 2th

7pm CET, 10am PDT, 1pm EDT

Yufei Zhang

London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: Convergence of Policy Gradient Methods for Finite-horizon Stochastic Linear-quadratic Control Problems

Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 22th

7:45pm CET, 10:45am PDT, 1:45pm EDT

Lukas Gonon

Imperial College London

Title: Mathematical understanding of (random) neural networks for option pricing

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 23rd

7:00pm CEST, 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT

Giulia Livieri

London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: Designing Universal Causal Deep Learning Models: The Case of Infinite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems from Stochastic Analysis

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 20th

7:45pm CEST, 10:45am PDT, 1:45pm EDT

Michael Ludkovski

University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Machine Learning Surrogates for Parametric and Adaptive Optimal Execution

Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 7th

7:00pm CET, 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST

Ziteng Cheng 

University of Toronto

Title: Incorporating risk measures into reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement learning

Date/Time: Tuesday, Dec. 5th

7:00pm CET, 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: Utilizing deep learning and game theory to find optimal policies for a large number of noncooperative agents

Date/Time: Tuesday, Dec. 5th

7:45pm CET, 10:45am PST, 1:45pm EST

Agostino Capponi 

Columbia University

Title: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Financial Markets: A Guide to Contemporary Practices

Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 9th

7:00pm CET, 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST

Charles-Albert Lehalle 

ADIA & Imperial College London 

Title: Machine Learning and Data Sciences for Financial Markets: A Guide to Contemporary Practices

Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 9th

7:00pm CET, 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST

Christoph Reisinger

University of Oxford

Title: Synthetic Market Generation and Policy Evaluation: Neural SDEs and Nearest-neighbour Regression

Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 30th

7:00pm CET, 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST