2025-2026: University of Leicester
Derivatives
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hadi Movaghari
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Finance
Role(s): Leader, Lecturer, Seminar teacher, Marker (10 session; 65 students)
Materials: Futures, Options, Swaps,
Textbook covered:
Hull, J., Treepongkaruna, S., Colwell, D., Heaney, R., & Pitt, D. (2013). Fundamentals of futures and options markets. Pearson Higher Education AU.
Dissertation
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hadi Movaghari
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): Leader
Materials: ...
FinTech, AI and Blockchain
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hao Zheng & Dr. Hadi Movaghari
Level / Subject: ...
Role(s): Co-leader (5 sessions, 245 students)
Materials: ...
Textbook covered:
Contemporary issues in Accounting and Finance (AF3007)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Mahmoud Marzouk
Level / Subject: Accounting and Finance
Role(s): Co-leader, Lecturer, Seminar teacher (5 session for 4 groups of students; 20 in total), Assessment, Marker (244 students)
Materials: Private equity, Venture capital
Textbook covered:
Lerner, J., and Leamon, A. (2023). Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing Entrepreneurship, 2nd Edition, Willey & Sons.
Investment Management
Course Coordinator: Dr. Ali Malik
Level / Subject: Undergraduate /
Role(s): Workshops, Moderator
Materials: Portfolio management
Financial Statement Analysis for Investors
Course Coordinator: Dr. Aaron Toogood
Level / Subject: Undergraduate /
Role(s): Marker
Materials: ...
2024-2025: University of Glasgow
Accounting and Finance Master Classes
Course Coordinator: Dr. Pantelis Kazakis
Level / Subject: PhD-level / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer (1 session, 15 students), Design
Materials: Econometrics, Machine learning techniques (DML, causal forest, LASSO, random forest)
Research Methods (Online course)
Course Coordinator: Dr Gillian Maciver
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer
Materials: Hypothesis testing, Panel data modelling, Binary dependent models, Stata application videos
Fundamentals of Crowdfunding (ACCFIN4087)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Chen Yang
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer (5 sessions, 40 students), Assessment, Marking, Design & Redesign
Materials: Fintech, Debt-based crowdfunding, Equity-based crowdfunding, Donation-based crowdfunding, workshops
Textbook(s) covered:
Cumming, D. and Hornuf, L. (2018). The Economics of Crowdfunding: Startups, Portals and Investor Behavior, Springer.
Cumming, D. and Johan, S. A. (2020). Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights, Academic Press.
Leach, J. C., & Melicher, R. W. (2012). Entrepreneurial finance. Cengage Learning.
2023-2024: Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
Advanced Financial Modelling (ACCFIN4085)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hormoz Ramian
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer (4 sessions, 10 students), Design & Redesign
Materials: Clustering, Classification
Data Science and Machine Learning in Finance (ACCFIN5246)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hormoz Ramian
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer (4 sessions, 156 students), Design & Redesign
Materials: Clustering, Classification, Principal component analysis
Financial Econometrics (ACCFIN5217)
Course Coordinator: Prof. Yukun Shi
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): Lecturer (5 sessions, 156 students), Marking, Assessment, Design & Redesign
Materials: Panel data modelling, Binary dependent models, real examples in Stata
Textbook(s) covered:
Stock, J. H., & Watson, M. W. (2015). Introduction to econometrics. London: Pearson.
Advances in Machine Learning in Finance (ACCFIN5229)
Course Coordinator: Prof. Charalampos Stasinakis
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): GTA (2 sessions, 40 students)
Materials: LASSO, support vector machine, and their applications in finance using R
2022-2023: Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK
Data Science and Machine Learning in Finance (ACCFIN5246) [files at GitHub]
Course Coordinator: Dr. Hormoz Ramian
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): GTA (27 sessions, 2 groups, 149 students), Design & Redesign
Material: Review on Statistics and probability, matrix algebra and problem solving
Advances in Machine Learning in Finance (ACCFIN5229) [files at GitHub]
Course Coordinator: Prof. Charalampos Stasinakis
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): GTA (2 sessions)
Material: LASSO, support vector machine, and their applications in finance using R
Artificial Intelligence in Finance (ACCFIN5230) [files at GitHub]
Course Coordinator: Prof. Georgios Sermpinis
Level / Subject: Graduate / Finance
Role(s): GTA (2 sessions)
Material: Neural networks, genetic algorithm and their applications in finance using R
Econometrics 2: Multiple Regression and Applications (ECON4004)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Sisir Ramanan
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Economics
Role(s): GTA (6 sessions, 150 students)
Materials: Panel data, probit model, and time series analysis in Stata
2011-2013: Ghadir University, Guilan, Iran
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Accounting
Course(s):
Introductory Statistics for Accounting
2009-2013: Payame Noor University, Guilan, Iran
Level / Subject: Undergraduate / Statistics
Course(s):
Statistical computing with S-PLUS
Nonparametric Statistics
Time Series Analysis
Multivariate Analysis
Design of experiments
"Hadi Movaghari is a great lecturer and seminar tutor. He gives great examples, great engagement and tries to connect with students"
Derivatives (2025-2026), University of Leicester
"A friendly environment was created which allowed us to ask questions easily"
Derivatives (2025-2026), University of Leicester
"The way the module was taught was very easy to understand because of the interactive learning."
Derivatives (2025-2026), University of Leicester
"Hadi, he really understood the content he teaches so it’s easy for him to make the class understand as well."
Derivatives (2025-2026), University of Leicester
“there is basic knowledge of mathematics and statistics, which is really technical and skillful for the future career. Hadi is a really responsible professor who would love to help each student and answer as many questions as he can. He is willing to make appointments with students who are struggling in this course. and his lecture is really clear and easy to follow even for students without basis. however, other teachers seemed too busy to make appointments and answer questions.”
Financial Econometrics (2023-2024), University of Glasgow
"The teacher's lectures are very lively and interesting, and I can always concentrate my attention involuntarily. The teacher explained the knowledge clearly so that I could understand it. It was a great class experience."
Financial Econometrics (2023-2024), University of Glasgow
"Professor Hadi is very serious and meticulous in his lectures."
Financial Econometrics (2023-2024), University of Glasgow