about us

Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to CCFEA!

CCFEA is an interdisciplinary Centre with members coming from economics, finance and computer science backgrounds. We apply advanced computational techniques to finance and economics. We aim to bring researchers together to conduct research that they cannot do on their own.

Supported by Olsen Ltd, we specialize in research in high frequency finance. Our research agenda includes market modelling and analysis, traders modelling, risk management, forecasting and wind-tunnel testing.

CCFEA is affiliated to the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, from which we benefit from expertise in computational intelligence. We have international reputation in optimization, evolutionary computation, constraint satisfaction, games, fuzzy logic and agent-based technology.

Started in 2003, CCFEA was among the first to offer Masters and PhD degrees in Computational Finance and Agent Based Computational Economics. We aim to graduate students who are knowledgeable in not only finance and economics, but also the impact and potential of technology to finance and economics. Our expert seminar series expose students to real world finance. Our trading training course helps to develop our students in the front-line trading.

Our first cohort of Phd students have successfully defended their research and many of them are working in the City, central banks and academia. Our MSc students have reported that the operational content of their degree have given them an edge above other job applicants for jobs in financial institutions. Our researchers are innovative and exciting. If you like challenges, you are welcome to join us.

Professor Edward Tsang
Centre Director