Keynote Speakers

Heng Ji, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science, Bloomberg
Johannes Hoffart, Senior Research Scientist, Goldman Sachs

Presentation Schedule

All timestamps reflect Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Time Title Speakers/Authors Link to Video
8:50am-9:00am Opening remarks    
9:00am-9:15am Knowledge discovery with Deep RL for selecting financial hedges Eric Benhamou
(Ai For Alpha)		 Video
9:15am-9:30am Boosting over Deep Learning for Earnings Stephen Choi
(LORA Technologies)		 Video
9:30am-9:45am Leaking Sensitive Financial Accounting Data in Plain Sight using Deep Autoencoder Neural Networks Marco Schreyer
(University of St. Gallen)		  
9:45am-10:30am Keynote: Rich text, lean knowledge bases: Knowledge extraction from financial documents Johannes Hoffart
(Senior Research Scientist, Goldman Sachs)		 Video
10:30am-11:00am Coffee Break    
11:00am-11:45am Keynote: Can we predict the future? Schema-guided complex event extraction and prediction Heng Ji
(Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)		  
11:45am-12:00pm A Comparison of Multi-View Learning Strategies for Satellite Image-Based Real Estate Appraisal Jan-Peter Kucklick
(Paderborn University)		  
12:00pm-12:15pm Explainable Deep Behavioral Sequence Clustering for Transaction Fraud Detection Wei Min
(eBay China)		  
12:15pm-12:30pm PayVAE: A Generative Model for Financial Transactions Niccolo Dalmasso
(Carnegie Mellon University)		  
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch Break    
1:30pm-2:15pm Keynote: Information in Context: Financial Conversations and News Flows Gideon Mann
(Head of Data Science, Bloomberg)		 Video
2:15pm-2:30pm Corporate Cyber-security Event Detection Platform Zheng Nie
(S&P Global)		  
2:30pm-2:45pm Data Augmentation Methods for Reject Inference in Credit Risk Models Jingxian Liao
(Intuit AI)		 Video
2:45pm-3:00pm Sensitive Data Detection with High-Throughput Neural Network Models for Financial Institutions Anh Truong
(Capital One)		  
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee Break    
3:30pm-4:15pm Keynote: Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Scientific Text Hannaneh Hajishirzi
(Assistant Professor, University of Washington)		 Video
4:15pm-4:30pm AR-Stock: Deep Augmented Relational Stock Prediction Tianxin Wei
(University of Science and Technology of China)		  
4:30pm-4:45pm Building a Credit Risk Model using Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation Hendra Suryanto
(Rich Data Corporation)		  
4:45:pm-5:00pm Closing Remarks