NTU Summer School & Conference 2025 - AI for Finance
04 Jul 2025 at 09.00 AM - 07 Jul 2025 at 06.30 PM
Industry/Academic Partners, Public
NTU Summer School on 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.
Lecturers
• 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.
The Summer School schedule is shared exclusively with shortlisted participants.
NTU Conference on AI for Finance
Join us on 7 July 2025 for the NTU Conference on AI for Finance, held as part of the augural NTU AI & Business Forum Series. Taking place at the Gaia Auditorium, Nanyang Business School (NBS), the event brings together leading academics, researchers, and industry practitioners to explore how AI is transforming the world of finance – through keynote speeches, research presentations, poster sessions, and panel discussions.
Key Topics
• 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)
Keynote Speaker: Conference
• Gordon Phillips (Dartmouth College)
Gordon Phillips is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and a professor of finance. He teaches the 2nd year course Venture Capital and Private Equity and specializes in private equity, mergers, and the impact of financial decisions on firms' strategic decisions. He is a faculty advisor at the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, where he was the faculty director for 5 years, reorganizing and helping to expand the previously named Center for Private Equity. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Duke University, HEC Paris, Insead, MIT, and Southern Mediterranean University. He received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. His areas of research include corporate finance and how financial decisions impact firms' strategic decisions, and contracting in financial markets. His work in corporate finance includes studies of private equity issuance, capital structure, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, how leverage buyouts and other forms of high debt influence a firms' and rivals' investment decisions. Recent research published in the Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Financial Studies has been on applying computational linguistics to firm financial statements to analyze merger synergies, dividends and product market competition. Research published in the Journal of Finance has been on real and financial booms and busts and mergers and acquisitions and how firms organize across multiple markets. He recently presented the keynote address on PIPEs (private investment in public equity) to an audience of executives and finance professionals. He has served as an associate editor at The Review of Financial Studies and The Journal of Corporate Finance.
• Sopnendu Mohanty (Global Finance & Technology Network
Sopnendu Mohanty is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), a global advisory and investment firm. At GFTN, he leads innovative strategies that drive development and transformation in the financial sector through four operating arms: Forums, Advisory, Platform, and Capital. He served the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as its first Chief Fintech Officer for nearly a decade, establishing Singapore on the global map as a leading center for innovation in the financial sector and a dynamic hub for fintech development. He continues to advise MAS on technology and innovation. He currently serves on several boards, including the board of A*STAR, Singapore’s leading public sector agency dedicated to advancing scientific discovery and technological innovation. Before his leadership role in the public sector, he spent nearly two decades at Citigroup. He is credited with developing many public goods, including the notable PayNow, Singapore’s digital public infrastructure for payments. He conceptualized the globally well-known Singapore Fintech Festival and its global network of forums; today, the GFTN forum is the world’s largest convenor of tech, policymakers, and the financial sector community. Mr. Mohanty has co-authored several patented works in digital finance and received numerous industry accolades. He advises governments and various institutions on policies and implementation strategies for innovation, infrastructure, and ecosystem development in the financial sector.
Conference Date
Date: 7 July 2025
Time: 9.00 am – 6:30 pm (Registration starts at 8:30 AM)
Mode: In-person at Gaia Auditorium, NBS
Registration has closed.