August 23: Speakers Seven new studies on the influence of AI and Machine Learning in different areas of finance were presented and discussed. Simona Abis Assistant Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Leonidas Barbopoulos Chair in Finance and Programme Director for the MSc Accounting and Finance at the University of Edinburgh Sean Cao Associate Professor, Maryland University. Asaf Manela Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School Jillian Popadak Grennan Associate Professor, Santa Clara University Michael Weisbach Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance, Ohio State University Sudheer Chava Alton M. Costley Chair, Professor, Finance Area Coordinator, Director, Quantitative & Computational Finance (QCF) Program, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech Matthew Ringgeberger Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Utah Ansgar Walther Assistant Professor of Finance at Imperial College London Alejandro Lopez-Lira Assistant Professor at University of Florida Xing Huang Assistant Professor, Olin Business School Washington University Antonio Gargano Assistant Professor, C.T. Bauer College of Business at University of Houston
