Name: QuantUniversity Autumn School 2020Theme: AI and ML EnablementCourses: -Data Science with Python-AI & Machine Learning for Financial Professionals-Model Risk & Governance
Start: 2020-10-06T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-12-22T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Online

QuantUniversity Autumn School 2020

Theme:

AI and ML Enablement

^_Courses:

^{_{-Data Science with Python}}

^{_{-AI & Machine Learning for Financial Professionals}}

^{_{-Model Risk & Governance}}

July

2020

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September

2020

RSVP

Courses offered

Just Enough Python for Data Science- Finance Edition

Machine Learning and AI for Financial Professionals

Model Risk Management for Machine Learning Models

The Fintech Bootcamp

Guest lectures

Lecture 1

Generative Adversarial Networks - A Master Class

Dr.Gautier Marti

10/27/2020 11.30-1.00pm EST

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Lecture 2

Fintech in the Post-Covid Age

D Shahrawat, CFA, Rosenblatt Securities & Sarah Biller, Fintech Sandbox

11/04/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

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LectuRe 3

Ethical Use of AI in Financial Markets

Dan Liebau, Lightbulb Captial

11/12/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

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Lecture 4

Synthetic Data Generation in Finance

Stefan Jansen
11/18/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

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Lecture 5

Responsible AI in Action

12/02/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

Dr.Valeria Sadovykh,PWC

Dr.Reid Blackman, Virtue Consultants

Jun Wu, Forbes Reporter

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Lecture 6

Machine Learning Interpretability:Self-Explanatory Models: Interpretability, Diagnostics and Simplification

12/09/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

Dr.Agus Sudjianto, Wells Fargo

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Lecture 7

A Unified Framework for Model Explanation

12/16/2020 11.30-1.00pm EST

Ian Covert, University of Washington

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Lecture 8

Alternative Data and the API Jungle

12/22/2020 12.00-1.00pm EST

Yaacov Weinstock, CFA

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, QuantUniversity

James Perkins

Brad Franklin

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Speakers

Dr.Gaurtier Marti

AI Quantitative Researcher

Sarah Biller

Fintech Sandbox

Dushyant (D) Shahrawat, CFA

Rosenblatt Securities

Dan Liebau

Lightbulb Capital

STEFAN JANSEN

Data Strategy | End-to-end ML Solutions

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA

Quantuniversity

Jun WU

Forbes

dr.Reid blackman

Virtue consultants

Dr.Valeria Sadovykh

PWC

DR.Agus Sudjianto

Wells Fargo

Ian covert

University of washington

yaacov weinstock

James Perkins

Refinitiv

Brad Franklin

Factset

Speaker Block #3

Paul M. Patterson

CEO

Earthworks Garden

Speaking on:

Bugs

Cassandra Bernstein

Vice President

Broker Garden

Speaking on:

Headphones that will change your life

Katherine Moore

Marketing Specialist

City Paradigm

Speaking on:

Entrepreneurship: The rights and the wrongs

Anthony Blanchard

HR Officer

Furniture Control

Speaking on:

Lumbar support in the work and home environments

8 Courses + 12 Lectures from Quants, Innovators and Thinkers to kick off a Fall of learning!

Machine Learning

- Just Enough Python for Data Science

- Machine Learning and AI for Financial Professionals

- Production Grade AI and ML Applications *NEW*

Model Risk & Governance

- Model Risk Management for Machine Learning Models

- Explaining Explainable AI and Fairness in ML Systems *NEW*

- Stress Testing in the age of #Covid19

Fintech

The Fintech Bootcamp - 8 Facets of FIntech *NEW*

Algorithms

- Algorithms that power the Marketing World - Search, Recommendations, Pricing and Networks *NEW*

QuantUniversity Summer School 2020

Course offerings

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Qu Speaker Series 2020

Talks by Quants, Innovators and Thinkers

^{_{We are honored to invite eminent quants, thinkers and innovators to lead 10 FREE lectures as a part of the Qu Speaker Series. Join us for an exciting summer!}}

Dr.Reha Tutuncu

Point 72

Reha leads portfolio construction efforts at Point 72. He is an expert in factor investing and optimization techniques and is a co-author of the book - Optimization in Finance

Sri Krishnamurthy

QuantUniversity

Sri is the founder of QuantUniversity and researches and teaches machine learning and model risk and fintech related topics at QuantUniversity and Northeastern University

Dr.Joseph Simonian

Autonomous Investment Technologies

Joseph is a co-editor of the Journal of Financial data science and is an expert in applying machine learning and model validation.

Dr.Agus Sudjianto

Wells Fargo

Agus leads corporate Model Risk efforts at Wells Fargo. He is a renowned expert in applying machine learning to quant models

Tony Guida

Ram Active Investments

Tony leads quant research efforts at Ram Active Investments. He is the co-author of the upcoming book- Machine Learning for Factor investing

Dr.Matthew Dixon

Illinois Institute of Technology

Matthew teaches Mathematical finance, Machine learning and related topics at IIT and is a co-author of the upcoming book- Machine Learning in Finance

Dr.Igor Halperin

Fidelity Investments

Igor leads AI research efforts at Fidelity and also teaches Financial Machine Learning at NYU. He is the co-author of the upcoming book- Machine Learning in Finance

Dr.Paul Bilokon

Imperial College, London

Paul teaches Mathematical finance, machine learning etc. and is the founder of Thalesians. He is the co-author of the upcoming book- Machine Learning in Finance

Dr.Jörg Kienitz

Quaternion

Jörg is a partner at Quaternion Risk Management. He is working on applying machine learning in finance with a focus on model risk. He has authored many books on Financial modeling. Jorg teaches at the University of Wuppertal

Jennifer Jordan

EIR at Techstars

Jennifer is an EIR at Techstars and works with startups in the AI/ML space and has interests in AI explainability, bias mitigation and fairness

Ben Steiner

BNP Paribas Asset Management

Ben is an expert in the application of machine learning and model risk management for investment firms. He also teaches risk management at Columbia University

Schedule

July 8th

Practical issues in Asset Management

Dr.Reha Tutuncu, Point 72

(Access Recording and Slides here)

July 22nd

Modular Machine Learning for Model Validation

Dr.Joseph Simonian

July 29th

Model Validation

Dr. Agus Sudjianto

Aug 5th

Coming soon

Aug 12th

Machine learning for Factor investing

Tony Guida

Aug 19th

Machine Learning in Finance - Key trends

Dr.Matthew Dixon

Dr.Paul Bilokan

Dr.Igor Halperin

Aug 26th

Coming soon

Sep 2nd

AI Explainability and Bias

Jennifer Jordon

Sep 9th

Validation and Machine Learning - Some thoughts on Deep Neural Networks -

Dr.Jorg Kientz, Ben Steiner

Past Course participants

OCC, Federal Reserve Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, UBS, US Bank, LeggMason, KDPW, ING, Wells Fargo,UBS, Genpact, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Lusitania, American Family Insurance, and many more from 13+ countries

In addition, QuantUniversity offered 53 scholarships to participants of the PRMIA risk management challenge in May worth $30,000 to support learning in universities especially in these challenging times of #covid19. See our announcement on this -> here

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What our Participants are saying

"The examples of applications of the concepts in the world of Finance which is something which comes to mind at first. This is missing from other courses. The concept of labs on Qu.Academy are very good since it helps to start off with the coding of concepts."

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