“To accelerate research and education of technologies that help people make better financial decisions”
Affiliate Membership
We are grateful for the generous support of our 2017 Affiliate members: State Street Global and BBVA.
$175,000 per year membership supports the students, research and educational goals of the AFTLab.
Affiliate Membership Benefits
· Invitation to all AFTLab events
· Named sponsorship and table at Annual AFTLab Fintech Forum
· Company may send one Visiting Fellow to work on-campus alongside the AFTLab
· One seat on the AFTLab Advisory Board
· Hosted executive visits to Stanford campus
· Student recruiting opportunities
· Real time advisory of research agenda
This program is governed by Stanford University’s published policies on research and treatment of research results. A full description can be found here.
Annual Fintech Forum
(Save the Date for Jan 18, 2018)
Highlights from 2017 AI in Fintech Forum
Steve Jurvetson (DFJ Ventures), Amir Khosrowshahi (Intel/Nervana), Ashish Goel (Stanford MS&E, Stripe), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures, Opendoor) with Joe Grundfest, Sid Dalal (AIG), Apaar Sadhwani (Google Brain), Adam Coates (Baidu), Angela Strange (Andreessen Horowitz), Chris Brahm (Bain)
Student Research Poster Session
Annual Retreat
· Intimate, senior-level retreat with AFTLab Faculty & Advisory Board
· Strategic Discussion & Lab Update: Goals and Direction, State of the Union, Panel Discussion
· Networking Dinner
Special Workshops
· 3-hour afternoon workshop format
· Hands on modules taught by faculty, industry leaders, senior PhD
· Rotating topics may include:
Deep Learning
NLP for Financial Data
Fraud Detection
PhD Student Research Talks
· 5-8 talks per quarter
· Doctoral students discuss their research and solicit real-time feedback
· Opportunity to give input in how research could be framed
Stanford Fintech Seminar Series
· Once a week speakers (8 total) in Seminar sequence per quarter
· Autumn quarter (Industry focused)
· Spring quarter (Research focused)
· Last session features top posters from AFTLab project courses
Core Areas
Machine Intelligence
High Performance Computing
Theory & Algorithms
Consumer Credit
SME & Corporate Credit
Real Estate
Investec & Capital Markets
Other Application Areas
Payments
Identity & Fraud Detection
Bitcoin & Blockchain
Energy, Commodities & Agriculture
Financial Regulation/ RegTech
Systemic Financial Risk
Insurance/ InsureTech
Faculty
Kay Giesecke (Director)
Kapil Jain (co-Director)
Nick Bambos
Lisa Borland
Stephen Boyd
Peter Glynn
Ashish Goel
Gerd Infanger
Ramesh Johari
Markus Pelger
Benjamin Van Roy
Yinyu Ye
Students
Current PhD: Bernardo Ramos, Robert Stacey, Michael Ohlrogge, Enguerrand Horel, Yexiang Wei, Ruoxuan Xiong, Jason Zhu, Enzo Busseti
Selected Former PhD: Apaar Sadhwani (Google Brain), Ian Osband (DeepMind), Gerry Tsoukalas (UPenn), Abhishek Sheshadri (Goldman Sachs), Alex Shkolnik (UC Berkeley)
Selected Masters Employers: Cubist Systematic, Hutchin Hill, PDT Partners, Data Capital, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Microsoft, SAP, Google
Advisory Board
Steve Jurvetson, DFJ
Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel
Robert Sears, BBVA
W. Scott Simon, Prudent
Collaborating Researchers
AFTLab is proud to collaborate with researchers in the following Stanford groups:
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
Institute of Design (d.school)
Data Science Initiative (SDSI)
The Hoover Institution
Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Social Algorithms Laboratory (SOAL)
Directors
Kay Giesecke, giesecke@stanford.edu
Kapil Jain, kkjain@stanford.edu
Development
Mauricio Valencia (Corporate), mvalenci@stanford.edu
Matthew Bahls (Individual), mbahls@stanford.edu