Scope: The NTU Summer School\/Conference on AI for Finance will focus on the financial implications and applications of artificial intelligence, addressing the rapid adoption of AI technologies within the financial sector.<\/p>\n
The summer school will offer three days of intensive lectures and workshops, while a one-day conference will bring together top researchers and leading practitioners to discuss recent advances in both theoretical and applied work in AI for finance. In addition, the conference will serve as a platform to unite academic researchers and practitioners, facilitating discussions on cutting-edge AI research in asset pricing, portfolio management, corporate finance, and financial accounting.<\/p>\n
Summer School Lecturers:
\n\u2022 Professor Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
\n\u2022 Professor Semyon Malamud (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne)
\n\u2022 Professor Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
\n\u2022 Professor Dacheng Xiu (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)<\/p>\n
Conference Scientific Committee
\nChairpersons:
\n\u2022 Professor Jun Yang (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<\/p>\n
Committee members:
\n\u2022 Professor Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Svetlana Brzgalova (London Business School)
\n\u2022 Professor Leland Bybee (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
\n\u2022 Professor Xin (Simba) Chang (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Zhimin Chen (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Lauren Cohen (Harvard University)
\n\u2022 Professor William Cong (Cornell University)
\n\u2022 Professor Winston Dou (University of Pennsylvania)
\n\u2022 Professor Anastassia Fedyk (UC Berkeley)
\n\u2022 Professor Byoung-Hyoun Hwang (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Wei Jiang (Emory University)
\n\u2022 Professor Serhiy Kozak (University of Maryland)
\n\u2022 Professor Roger Loh (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Semyon Malamud (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne)
\n\u2022 Professor Maximilian Muhn (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
\n\u2022 Professor Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
\n\u2022 Professor Seth Pruitt (Arizona State University)
\n\u2022 Professor Sadat Reza (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Simon Scheidegger (University of Lausanne)
\n\u2022 Professor Yinan Su (Johns Hopkins University)
\n\u2022 Professor Huan Tang (University of Pennsylvania)
\n\u2022 Professor Neng Wang (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business)
\n\u2022 Professor Dacheng Xiu (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
\n\u2022 Professor Yuchen Yang (University of Zurich)
\n\u2022 Professor Wenjun Zhu (Nanyang Technological University)
\n\u2022 Professor Guofu Zhou (Washington University in St. Louis)<\/p>\n
Summer School Application
\nThe NTU Summer School is open to early-career researchers and early\/mid-stage PhD students from all around the world. This intensive three-day program will provide hands-on computational instruction and equip participants with essential tools for applying AI to finance. The curriculum will integrate economics, computing, and data sciences, with a focus on asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial accounting.<\/p>\n
Tentative topics include:
\n\u2022 Overview of how machine learning and AI are transforming finance and accounting research
\n\u2022 Financial forecasting: from penalized regression techniques to deep neural networks and LLMs
\n\u2022 Advances in deep learning for asset pricing and incorporating ML\/AI into asset pricing models (including factor pricing, estimating the stochastic discount factor, etc.)
\n\u2022 Reinforcement learning for trading and portfolio management
\n\u2022 ML tools for solving and estimating dynamic structural models
\n\u2022 Use of computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) in finance, covering both traditional methods (e.g., topic models\/LDA) and state-of-the-art large language models<\/p>\n
The application deadline is 20 April 2025, 11:59PM (SGT). Applicants will be informed of the admission results by 10 May 2025. Apply for summer school: https:\/\/event.ntu.edu.sg\/ntu-summer-school-AI-2025<\/p>\n
Conference Paper Submission
\nThe Conference on AI for Finance invites faculty members, PhD students, industry practitioners, and thought leaders from all around the world to submit full papers that address the rising adoption of AI in finance. The conference organiser is open to papers within the broad area of cutting-edge AI research in asset pricing, portfolio management, corporate finance, and financial accounting.<\/p>\n
Key topics include:
\n\u2022 Algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies
\n\u2022 AI in Risk management and credit scoring
\n\u2022 AI-based Portfolio optimization
\n\u2022 Natural language processing in financial applications
\n\u2022 Robo-advisory services and fraud detection
\n\u2022 Financial forecasting and market sentiment analysis using AI\/ML
\n\u2022 Reinforcement learning for dynamic trading
\n\u2022 AI regulations and ethical decision-making in Financial AI
\n\u2022 Other AI-related research in finance<\/p>\n
The submission deadline is 20 April 2025, 11:59PM (SGT). Applicants will be informed of the paper submission outcome by 10 May 2025. Submit your papers: https:\/\/event.ntu.edu.sg\/call-for-papers-ai-for-finance-2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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