Program
KDD Finance Day 2023 will take place on August 7, 2023, 9:15 am-5:00 pm PDT in room Grand A in the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center.
| 9:00am | 9:15am | Opening Remarks | Daniel Borrajo/Tucker Balch (J.P.Morgan Chase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:15am | 10:15am | Morning Keynote | Manuel Veloso (J.P.Morgan Chase/CMU)
Title: Human-AI Interaction in Finance: A Learning Journey Host: Daniel Borrajo |
| 10:15am | 11:15am | Invited talks | Gregor Schubert (UCLA)
Title: Generative AI and Firm Values An Bo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Title: Reinforcement Learning for Quantitative Trading Host: Grace Wang |
| 11:15pm | 12:00pm | Lunch and networking | (Lunch buffet will be provided to Finance Day Attendee) |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | Lunchtime Keynote | Subbarao Kambhampati (Arizona State University)
Title: Avenging Polanyi's Revenge: Exploiting the Approximate Omniscience of LLMs in Planning without Deluding Yourself In the Process |
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | Invited talks | Isaac Tamblyn (Cash App)
Title: Agent based models of financial platforms for machine learning development Zhen Zeng (J.P.Morgan Chase) Title: Visual Perspectives on Finance Time Series Host: Grace Wang |
| 2:00pm | 2:15pm | Break and networking | |
| 2:15pm | 3:15pm | Afternoon Keynote | Susan Athey (Stanford University)
Title: Foundation Models for Economic Data: Applications to Modeling Career Trajectories |
| 3:15pm | 4:45pm | Invited talks | Ron Bekkerman (Cherre)
Title: The Data Science Perspective on Real Estate Investments Dhagash Mehta (BlackRock) Title:Similarity Learning in Finance Jay Pujara (USC) Title: Using Structured Knowledge for Better Modeling of Financial Data Host: Grace Wang |
| 4:45pm | Closing Remarks | Grace Wang (NJIT) |
Keynote Speakers
Manuela M. Veloso
Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research
Herbert A. Simon University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
NAE member; Former President, AAAI; Fellow, ACM, AAAI, IEEE, and AAAS
Subbarao Kambhampati
Professor of Computer Science, Arizona State University
Former AAAI President; Fellow, ACM, AAAI, AAAS
Susan Athey
The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford University
2023 President of the American Economics Association
First female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
Invited Speakers
Dhagash Mehta
Head of Applied Machine Learning Research for Investment Management, BlackRock
An Bo
President’s Council Chair Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Co-Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Ron Bekkerman
Strategic Advisor and former CTO, Cherre
Isaac Tamblyn
Machine Learning Manager, Cash App
Jay Pujara
Director of the Center on Knowledge Graphs, University of Southern California
Gregor Schubert
Assistant Professor of Finance, University of California, Los Angeles
Zhen Zeng
AI Research Lead, J.P. Morgan AI Research