Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA)

Computational Finance workshop

We held this workshop at the University of Essex in September 2017. Our invited speaker was Richard Olsen founder of Blockchain and Financial product provider Lykke.

AI Seminars

We hold AI seminars in conjunction with the AI research group of CSEE. Speakers are internal members of our department as well as external experts, like Ioannis Caragiannis from the University of Patras.

Economics and Computer Science seminar series

In 2018/19 this seminar series was run jointly by CCFEA and the Economics department with very distinguished world-leading scientists as invited speakers.

• November 7: Nina Bobkova (EUI)
• November 16: Elias Koutsoupias (University of Oxford)
• December 13: Noam Nisan (Hebrew University)
• May 1: Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
• May 15: George Christodoulou (University of Liverpool)
• May 22: Paul Goldberg (University of Oxford)
• June 4: Philipp Strack (Berkeley University)
• June 19: Gabriel Carroll (Stanford University)

Anniversary lecture

We celebrated the 18-year anniversary of our centre in October 2020 with a talk by Professor Edward Tsang. Edward is an emeritus professor at the University of Essex. He is a co-founder (2002) and previous Director (2009-2016) of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA). Professor Tsang discussed "Detecting regime change in computational finance" on Friday 16th October.

SAGT 2022

We hosted the 15th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2022) at the University of Essex.

The conference had world renowned keynote speakers including Prof. Aggelos Kiayias who talked about Decentralizing Information Technology: The Advent of Resource Based Systems.

• Knowledge Transfer Partnership project - "Novel applications of optimisation, game theory and machine learning methods for the legal sector" funded by InnovateUK. Partners: University of Essex and Stephenson Harwood LLP.
• ESRC Funded Project - "An evaluation of the school admission experience: minimising contact and appeals as a cost reduction measure". Partners: Essex County Council, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, and Essex Business School at the University of Essex.
• KTP with Newcross Healthcare Solutions Limited - To use novel techniques in machine learning and game theory to develop an automated and intelligent staff-shift matching system to be deployed on Newcross' HealthforceGo app, enabling better fulfilment of the shifts offered by our care-provider partners. 

Relevant degrees:

• MSc Computational Finance
• MSc Algorithmic Trading
• MSc Financial Technology (Computer Science)

PhD students:

• Chen Chen
• Eva Christodoulaki
• Kam Yoon Chong
• Zheng Gong
• Fatima Habbab
• Bosiu Clement Kaibe
• Shengnan Li
• Xinpeng Long
• Shaui Ma
• Ahoora Rostamian
• G.S. Rukanda
• Ozgur Salman
• Rongsen Zhang
• Qi Zhao
• Hao Zhou

MSc by Dissertation:

• Jessica Fernanda Cebrian Aguirre.

Committee participation

Dr Michael Kampouridis is the Chair of the IEEE Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee (TC), and all CCFEA academics are members of the TC.

Workshops

Workshops organised by CCFEA academics:

• Workshop on Fair Resource Allocation: Concepts, Algorithms and Complexity - In conjunction with the 22nd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2021).
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics.
• Workshop on the Distortion and Information-Efficiency Tradeoffs - In conjunction with the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC 2020).
• Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Fairness - In conjunction with the 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2019).