NTU Summer School & Conference 2025 - AI for Finance

Join us for the upcoming Summer School as part of the NTU AI & Business Forum Series from 4–6 July 2025 at Nanyang Business School (NBS). Over three days of intensive lectures and workshops, world-renowned faculty and industry practitioners will explore recent advances in both theoretical and applied AI for finance. Early-career researchers and PhD students will get to deepen their expertise in AI-driven financial research by integrating economic, computing, and data sciences in empirical work, with applications in multiple fields such as asset pricing, corporate finance, and financial accounting.

 

• Bo An (Nanyang Technological University)

• Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Semyon Malamud (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

• Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)

• Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago) 

 

The following key areas will be covered:

• Overview of how machine learning and AI are transforming finance and accounting research 

• Financial forecasting: from penalised regression techniques to deep neural networks and LLMs 

• Advances in deep learning for asset pricing and incorporating ML/AI into asset pricing models including factor pricing, estimating the stochastic discount factor etc 

• Reinforcement learning for trading and portfolio management 

• ML tools for solving and estimating dynamic structural models 

• 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

A unique opportunity to engage with top-tier academics, gain hands-on computational insights and present your research in lightning round sessions.

• 20 April 2025: Application deadline

• 10 May 2025: Notification of admission results

Join us for the NTU Conference on AI for Finance on 7 July 2025 as part of the NTU AI & Business Forum Series. Held at the Gaia Auditorium in Nanyang Business School (NBS), this event will bring together leading academics, researchers, and industry practitioners to explore the transformative role of AI in finance through keynote speeches, research presentations, poster sessions and panel discussions.

 

• Algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies 

• AI in risk management and credit scoring 

• AI-based portfolio optimisation 

• Natural language processing in financial applications 

• Robo-advisory services and fraud detection 

• Financial forecasting and market sentiment analysis using AI/ML 

• Reinforcement learning for dynamic trading 

• AI regulations and ethical decision-making in Financial AI 

• Other AI-related research in finance

Conference Chairs

• Jun Yang (Nanyang Technological University)

• Hui Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

• 20 April 2025:  Deadline for conference paper submission

• 10 May 2025:  Notification of paper submission outcome

• Authors are invited to submit full papers in English.

• Authors must submit one (1) blinded manuscript in PDF format, no more than 20MB (i.e., without author names or affiliations).

• Each individual can only present one paper at the conference.

Date:  7 July 2025

Time:  9.00 am – 6:45 pm (Registration starts at 8:30 AM)

Mode: In-person at Gaia Auditorium, NBS