It’s about perspectives - Main Goals

QuantLab - ML aims to combine the disciplines of Financial Mathematics and Machine Learning. It is meant to develop an infrastructure of carrying out research in this area, develop and conduct teaching and cooperating with industry partners (Banks, Energy, Insurance, IT). The QuantLab – ML at Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW) also serves as a platform for connecting with like-minded people which are at present only loosely coupled. This includes an academic cooperation with several universities ...

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QuantLab is an initiative of Prof. Dr. Christian Fries at Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich. This is the starting point of the initiative. We at BUW want to team up with the original QuantLab but focus on the Machine Learning aspect and its interplay with Quantitative Finance. This perspective takes a fresh look to the subject but also is a great complement to the current initiatives taking place at BUW. We also wish to attract industry partners that are financial institutions, energy trading firms or IT firms supplying Machine Learning frameworks.