Research Funding Overview

Funding Partners

Horizon Europe - MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network

Project	Grant	Amount	Period	Role
DIGITAL - Digital Finance: Reaching New Frontiers CORDIS Website	101119635	EUR 3,792,542	2024-2027	Coordinator

Horizon 2020

Project	Grant	Amount	Period	Role
FIN-TECH - A FINancial supervision and TECHnology compliance training programme CORDIS Website GitHub	825215	EUR 200,000	2019-2021	Project Leader

Total project: EUR 2,500,000 | 24 partners | Coordinator: Universita degli Studi di Pavia

COST Actions

Action	Number	Amount	Period	Role
Fin-AI - Fintech and AI in Finance: Towards a Transparent Financial Industry COST Website Wiki	CA19130	EUR 800,000	2020-2024	Action Chair
MI-NET - Mathematics for Industry Network COST Website	TD1409	-	2015-2019	MC Member
HiTEc - Text, functional and other high-dimensional data in econometrics COST Website	CA21163	-	2022-2026	WG Member

Fin-AI: 300+ researchers from 51 countries | MI-NET: 36 countries | HiTEc: 32 countries

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Project	Grant	Amount	Period	Role
Narrative Digital Finance: structural breaks, bubbles & market narratives SNF	IZCOZ0_213370	CHF 236,118	2023-2026	PI
Network-based credit risk models in P2P lending markets SNF	205487	CHF 347,836	2022-2025	PI
SPARK - Hybrid Approach for Sustainable Investment Identification SNF	190703	CHF 150,000	2020-2021	PI
Anomaly and fraud detection in blockchain networks SNF	IZSEZ0_211195	CHF 6,700	2022-2023	PI
Mathematics and FinTech: Digital Transformation SNF	C16.0049	CHF 300,000	2016-2019	PI
Blockchain and Virtual Currencies SNF	162442	CHF 100,000	2017-2018	Co-PI

CTI - Commission for Technology and Innovation

Predecessor to Innosuisse (renamed in 2018)

Project	Number	Amount	Period
Large Scale Data-Driven Financial Risk Modelling ZHAW ARAMIS	25349.1	CHF 309,000	2017-2018

Innosuisse - Swiss Innovation Agency

Project	Number	Amount	Period
Currency Hedging for SMEs and Pension Funds ZHAW	26213.2 PFES-ES	CHF 439,610	2018-2021
Strengthening Swiss Financial SMEs through Reinforcement Learning GitHub	47959.1 IP-SBM	CHF 312,315	2021-2022
Towards Explainable AI and Machine Learning in Credit Risk ZHAW	41084.1 IP-SBM	CHF 282,969	2020-2022
Decentralized Financing of Fairtrade Producers Using Blockchains ZHAW	46638.1 IP-SBM	CHF 250,539	2020-2023
Digitalization of Non-Bankable Assets (Art) ZHAW	41937.1 IP-SBM	CHF 300,000	2020
DIGIM - Digital Real Estate Dossier ZHAW ARAMIS	30016.1 IP-ICT	CHF 204,012	2018-2020
Human-machine collaboration to crowdsource insights	39936.1 INNO-SBM	CHF 15,000	2021
Prototype for ESG Scoring engine - Green Finance	63513.1 INNO-ICT	CHF 15,000	2022-2023
Deep Learning and AI for Trading (Innovation Cheque) ZHAW	39294.1 INNO-ICT	CHF 15,000	2019-2020
Advanced AI-Supported Rating Models for P2P Lending (Innovation Cheque) ZHAW	44596.1 INNO-SBM	CHF 15,000	2020-2021
Conferences on AI in Finance - Networking Events (TFV)	2155008307	CHF 80,000	2021-2024
Blockchain-based model for Fairtrade financing (Innovation Cheque) ZHAW	37010.1 INNO-SBM	CHF 15,000	2019
Digital AI in Finance ARAMIS Innosuisse Portal	Pending verification	-	-
AI Orchestrator ARAMIS Innosuisse Portal	Pending verification	-	-

SBFI - Leading House MENA

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) programme hosted by ETH Zurich for academic cooperation with Middle East and North Africa.

Project	Number	Amount	Period	Role
Implied Risk Premia Leading House MENA SBFI	Pending verification	-	-	PI

Babes-Bolyai University (UBB)

International Advanced Fellowship programme funded by Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania).

Project	Contract / ID	Programme	Role
International Advanced Fellowship-UBB UBB	21PFE/30.12.2021 (ID: PFE-550-UBB)	International Advanced Fellowship-UBB	International Advanced Fellow

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