Semyon Malamud

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Johannes Schwab, Onur Demiray, Giuseppe Matera Past EPFL PhD Students Rémy Praz, Evgeny Petrov, Yuan Zhang, Julien Arsène Blatt, Erik Hapnes, Teng Andrea Xu, Boris Kuznetsov Courses Big Data and Machine Learning for Financial Economics FIN-622 This class is an introduction to Machine Learning and High Dimensional Statistics in Finance. We start with purely empirical approach, focusing first on high dimensional regressions then moving to kernel methods and deep learning, and then study equilibrium models. Machine learning in finance FIN-407 This course aims to give an introduction to the application of machine learning to finance, focusing on the problems of portfolio optimization, return prediction, and textual analysis. A particular focus will be on deep learning and the practical details of applying deep learning models to finance. Awards Best discussant award at the 14th Annual Conference in Financial Economic Research 2017 INQUIRE joint seminar prize 2015