Centre for Digital Finance

Our people

Learn about our academic experts, from their research interests to their contact details.

Dr Sasan Barak

Lecturer in Business Analytics

Research interests

  • Financial Machine Learning (including Portfolio Optimisation, Algorithmic Trading)
  • Forecasting (Model Selection, Meta-Learning, Deep Learning)
  • Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms in Analytics

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Shuyue Li

Research interests

  • Long Memory Regime Switching Dynamics
  • Machine learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Price Prediction and Trading Strategy Optimisation in Stock and Cryptocurrency Markets
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Dr Simon Troup

Principal Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • data wrangling, data science and data products
  • tech product strategy and business models
  • fintech unbundling and platforms
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Professor Simon Wolfe

Professor in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Financial regulations
  • Financial stability
  • Depositor protection schemes

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Songshan Qin

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Finance
  • Machine Learning in Finance
  • Sustainable Finance
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Dr Suhee Kim

Lecturer in Banking and Finance

Research interests

  • Empirical corporate finance
  • Law and finance
  • Corporate governance

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Tahir Nisar

Professor

Research interests

  • Crowdfunding
  • AI Automation
  • Social Media

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Tapas Mishra

Professor of Banking And Finance

Research interests

  • Long memory; Green finance and corporate culture; Mergers and Acquisition, Stochastic economic growth; Macroprudential policy and stress testing; Environmental and demographic volatility; Cryptocurrency modelling; Climate finance, Small Business Economics, and Innovation-diffusion modelling.
  • Demography-growth-environmental interdependence
  • Spatio-temporal models

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Thanassis Tiropanis

Professor

Research interests

  • Decentralised information systems and infrastructures
  • Decentralised information retrieval
  • Data (and Web) observatories

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Tiejun Ma

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Financial Risk Modelling
  • Investors Behaviour Modelling
  • Fintech
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