Practice of Digital Finance – Research Workshop

Organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE)

Time & Location

15 Jan 2026, 09:00 – 16 Jan 2026, 17:00

Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piața Romană 6, Room Virgil Madgearu, 010374 Bucharest, Romania

About the event

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The Practice of Digital Finance workshop provides a collaborative platform for doctoral researchers to present and discuss their ongoing work at the intersection of finance, technology, and data science.

Organized under the framework of the MSCA Doctoral Network “Digital Finance – Reaching New Frontiers”, this two-day event brings together MSCA fellows and ASE PhD students to exchange ideas, showcase research progress, and receive constructive feedback from faculty and peers.

The program includes:

Research presentations on topics such as artificial intelligence in finance, blockchain technologies, risk modeling, and sustainable digital innovation;

Thematic discussions focused on methodological approaches, empirical findings, and future publication strategies.

By fostering academic dialogue within the doctoral community, the event strengthens ASE’s and the DIGITAL network’s commitment to advancing rigorous and innovative research in digital finance across Europe.

We aim for PhD students to present their work. If you plan to present, please click the “Register” button, fill in your topic, and send your slides.

Time Schedule

##### Thursday (15/01)

10:00 – 10:20 → Registration

10:20 – 10:30 → Opening Session

10:30 – 11:00 → A Spectral Guide to the Spatial Weight Matrix Selection – _Fulvio Raddi_

11:20 – 11:50 → FINDER-LLM: FINancial Anomaly DEtection and Recognition using Large Language Models – _Siang-Li Jheng_

13:00 – 13:30 → First hitting time analysis for DeFi portfolios – _Ginavar Andrei-Theodor_

13:30 – 14:00 → White paper on Cryptocurrency Indices – _Găman Ștefan_

14:20 – 15:00 → PhD Network Discussion

##### Friday (16/01)

10:00 – 10:30 → Registration

10:30 – 11:00 → Systemic Risk Cascades in Pension Fund Networks: Evidence and Mathematical Framework – _Megang Junile_

11:20 – 11:50 → Empirical Mode Decomposition – _Wolfgang Karl Härdle_

13:30 – 14:00 → Hierarchical Time series in finance – _Owen Chafffard_

14:00 – 14:30 → AI Listening to Central Bank: From words to market and macroeconomy – _Rahul Tak_

14:50 – 15:20 → Introducing Neobank models that work. Where do we stand? – _Anastas Dzurovski_

15:20 – 15:50 → PhD Network Discussion

15:50 – 16:00 → Closing Session

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