COST FinAI PhD School on Fintech and AI in Finance 2024
June 10 - 14, 2024
Enschede, the Netherlands
Summary
Welcome to the COST FinAI PhD School on Fintech and AI in Finance 2024!
We are excited to announce a further edition of this COST Action CA19130 Training series. This meeting is organized by the COST Action CA19130 on Fintech and AI in Finance, under the auspices of COST - European Cooperation in Science and Technology. The event will showcase the Action's expertise with a focus on integrating advanced computational technologies with financial practices. Expert speakers will delve into the transformative potential of Generative AI in finance, discussing its role in automation and decision-making. Topics include the deployment of chatbots and large language models in financial technologies, highlighting innovations in customer interaction and financial advising.
Some facts about the COST Action 19130
\- 51 countries
\- 200+ researchers from 100+ universities
\- Funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme of the EU
Keywords
Fintech, Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Transparency in Finance, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies.
This event is based upon work from COST Action 19130, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), www.cost.eu.
Date & Venue
Day 1-5:
10\. June 2024, 09:30 – 14. June 2024, 14:00
University of Twente, Ravelijn, Hallenweg 17, 7522 NH Enschede, the Netherlands
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Day 1-5
Campus of the University of Twente
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Schedule
| Date | Start Time | Session | Topic | Speaker | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | June 9th, 2024 | 18:00 | | Pre-event dinner (self-funded) | | | | | | | | | June 10th, 2024 | 10:00 | Session 1 | ML Application in Managerial Impact Research (RA1315) | Cheng Meng | | | 10:30 | Session 2 | Cryptoeconomics and Mechanism Design (RA1315) | Frederik Bernard | | | 11:00 | Session 3 | LLM Risk Measures (RA1315) | Daniel Traian Pele | | | 11:30 | Session 4 | Chatbots, LLMs & FinTech (RA1315) | Jamal Nasir | | | 12:00 | Lunch | | | | | 13:45 | Session 4 | Reinforcement Learning (RA 2504) | Wouter van Heeswijk, Martijn Mes | | | 1830 | Dinner | | | | | | | | | | June 11th, 2024 | 09:30 | Session 1 | UT Welcome and Opening (RA1315) | Martijn Mes, Jos van Hillegersberg (tbd) | | | 10:00 | Session 2 | GenAI and its applications in Finance (RA1315) | Vijaya Marisetty | | | 10:45 | Session 3 | SDA Smart Data Analytics (RA1315) | Wolfgang Härdle | | | 11:30 | Session 4 | NLP and potential uses (RA1315) | José Muñiz | | | 12:00 | Lunch | | | | | 13:45 | Session 5 | Workshop on Data Modelling, Step by Step; Public P2P Lending Data (RA1315) | Karsten Wenzlaff, Stefana Belbe | | | 15:00 | Break | | | | | 15:30 | PhD Qualifier Yiting Liu (Public) | Network-based credit risk modeling in P2P lending markets (RA3411) | Yiting Liu | | | 18:30 | Dinner | | | | | | | | | | June 12th, 2024 | 09:30 | Paper writing session in subgroups | MSCA + COST paper writing (RA1315) | | | | 10:00 | Paper writing session in subgroups | MSCA + COST paper writing (RA1315) | | | | 11:00 | Paper writing session in subgroups | MSCA + COST paper writing (RA1315) | | | | 12:00 | Lunch | | | | | 13:45 | Introduction to eXplainable AI (in RA2501) | The course will focus on methods and technologies designed to make AI decision-making transparent and understandable to humans. It will cover topics like model interpretability, feature importance, and techniques to visualize and communicate the reasoning behind AI predictions effectively. | Branka Hadji Misheva | | | 18:30 | Dinner | | | | | | | | | | June 13th, 2024 | 09:00 | Pick up bikes at UPark, let us know if you need them for the entire week | | | | | 09:30 | Session 1 | Green finance and risks of climate change (RA1315) | Albulena Shala | | | 09:45 | Session 1 | The Impact of fintech solutions on achieving esg principles (RA1315) | Albulena Shala | | | 10:00 | Session 2 | Workshop on survey modeling: individual crypto investors in the Nordic countries: The workshop will focus on the empirical study of the main drivers of crypto participation (incl. psychological ones) (RA1315) | Roman Matkovskyy | | | 10:30 | Session 3 | Convert Ideas to Business (RA1315) | Manmeet Abroll | | | 11:00 | Session 4 | TBD | Özgür Yildrim | | | 11:30 | Session 5 | Systematic Literature Review utilization in the field of AI research (RA1315) | Anastas Dzurovski | | | 11:00 | Cycling to lunch place | | | | | 12:30 | Lunch | | | | | 14:00 | Cycling | Windmill | Marcos Machado | | | 18:30 | Dinner | | | | | | | | | | June 14th, 2024 | 09:30 | COST Action CA19130 Working Group Meetings | (RA1315) | tentative | | | 10:30 | COST Action CA19130 Working Group Meetings | (RA1315) | tentative | | | 11:30 | Closing and Outlook | (RA1315) | Joerg Osterrieder | | | 12:00 | Lunch | | | | | 14:00 | Voluntary Proposal writing session | (RA1315) | | | | TEST | | | |
Speakers
Joerg Osterrieder
Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at University of Twente and Professor of Sustainable Finance at BFH
Branka Hadji Misheva
Professor of Applied Data Science and Finance at BFH
Roman Matkosvkyy
Associate Professor, Rennes School of Business
Jamal Nasir
Professor
Vijaya Marisetty
Professor, Indian Institute of Management
Wouter van Heeswijk
Assistent Professor, University of Twente
Yiting Liu
PhD student, University of Twente
Daniel Traian Pele
Professor, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy
Stefana Belbe
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Statistics and Cybernetics & Interdisciplinary
Karsten Wenzlaff
University of Hamburg
Frederik Bernard
Researcher, University of Twente
Wolfgang Härdle
Professor, Humboldt University Berlin
José Muñiz
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bath
Albulena Shala
Professor, University of Prishtina
Manmeet Abroll
Entrepreneur
Anastas Dzurovski
Organizing Committee
- Joerg Osterrieder, Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at University of Twente (Netherlands) and Professor of Sustainable Finance at BFH (Switzerland)
- Lennart John Baals, University of Twente, and Bern University of Applied Science (BFH)
- Christina Kolb, Assistent Professor, Cyber Security and Resilience, University of Twente
- Ioana Coita, Lecturer, University of Oradea (Romania)
- Roman Matkovskyy, Associate Professor, Finance and Accounting, Rennes School of Business
- Marcos Machado, Assistent Professor in Business and Information Systems, University of Twente
- Liana Stanca, Professor, Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
- Karolina Bolesta, Lecturer in Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Procter & Gamble (Poland)
- Karsten Wenzlaff, Lecturer for Business Administration, specifically digital markets (Germany)
How to attend
The event is hybrid and open to everyone upon registration.
You can register here as on-side participant and via the Zoom registration for online participation.
Physically
Day 1 - Day 5:
June 10th – June 14th, 2024.
University of Twente, Ravelijn Building,Hallenweg 17, 7522 NH Enschede, Netherlands
Remotely (Zoom)
Day 1 - Day 5:
June 10th – June 14th, 2024.
09:30 – 17:00, Amsterdam time.
Please register here.