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The Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI) at University of Oxford invites applications for (up to) three fully-funded studentships in Machine Learning applied to Finance. The selected students will be supervised by members of the academic faculty at the OMI, namely Steve Roberts, Mike Osborne, Jan-Peter Calliess, Stefan Zohren and Xiaowen Dong.

Research areas:
  • Machine learning for multi-variate time-series modelling, forecasting and event detection
  • Information extraction and fusion from ensembles of unstructured, non-stationary data
  • Deep (probabilistic) learning for extracting actionable insight
  • Dynamic learning under uncertainty for strategy and policy estimation in delayed reward environments
  • Understanding complex dynamic relationships on graphs and networks
  • Natural Language Processing for financial forecasting
  • Probabilistic multi-agent models
  • Optimisation, Decision-making and active learning

Award Value: tuition fees are covered at the level set for UK/EU students, as are Oxford Course Fees (c. £7,730 in total p.a.). The stipend (tax-free maintenance grant) is c. £15,000 p.a. for the first year, and at least this amount for a further two and a half years.

Start date: October 2019

Eligibility

  • Applications are open to both UK & EU students (full award – fees plus stipend) and international students (partial award – fees at UK/EU rate plus stipend).
  • Applicant must hold first-class honours degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics or similar
  • Experience in machine learning and data analysis; Mathematical maturity with emphasis on estimation, inference and optimization theory;
  • Ability to code in high-level scientific development language, e.g. Python, R, Matlab;
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills (English).

Application:

  • Graduate application form with quoted reference number 19ENGIN_SROMI.
  • Informal enquiries should be addressed to Prof. Steve Roberts: steve.roberts@oxford-man.ox.ac.uk.
—————–Quick Overview————-
OrganizationUniversity of Oxford
CountryUK
Fellowship LevelDoctoral
Subject areasEngineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics
Fellowship amountVaries
EligibilityOpen to UK/EU/International students
Deadline25th January 2019
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