prospective students

What you can expect

Students pursuing the innovative CCFEA MScs (MSc Computational Finance, MSc Agent-Based Computational Economics and E-Markets) and the established CCFEA Doctoral programme (leading to PhDs in Computational Finance or Computational Economics) will receive rigorous training in the principles of quantitative finance and microeconomics along with computational skills for:

design and testing of market micro structure
risk management and financial engineering in non-Gaussian environments
artificially intelligent adaptive and reinforced learning techniques, heuristic optimisation and evolutionary computation
study of complex dynamics and self-organisation in evolving agent models and networks and
policy analysis

The Centre has over 40 students and a number of them have had internships with prestigious City Institutions such as HSBC, Old Mutual and the Bank of England. One of the high lights of the CCFEA curricula is the operationally relevant projects and work experience oriented Expert Lecture Series where projects are done under the supervision of industry experts.

PhD students are encouraged and supported to attend international conferences and summer schools.

PhD topics include:

Trading Algorithms
Dynamic Risk Management
Heuristic optimization and AI in Financial Modelling
High frequency finance
Credit risk and derivatives
Agent-based Modelling
Network Adoption Games
E-Commerce Negotiation
Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems
Systemic Risk from Credit Risk Transfer