Seminar in AI-Driven Finance

3 units

The course provides students with an opportunity to delve deep into one aspect of AI-driven finance and write an extensive paper on this topic. Project topics will change year to year because this is an extremely fast developing field but will focus on applications of AI to problems in finance. The course allows students to interact with the frontier of financial AI in an experiential learning format under the guidance of faculty who are experts in the field. The paper must include an analytical component as well as data analysis and may be one of the following: research paper analyzing data and testing an hypotheses related to AI in finance; proposal for an AI-driven finance startup, from initial pitch to minimum viable product (MVP) and 2-year plan, that uses technological advances in LLMs into finance; or any other topic with approval of the instructors.