Semyon Malamud

EPFL CDM SFI SFI-SM
EXTRA 213 (Extranef UNIL)
Quartier UNIL-Dorigny
1015 Lausanne

Awards

Best discussant award at the 14th Annual Conference in Financial Economic Research

2017

INQUIRE joint seminar prize

2015

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Johannes Schwab, Onur Demiray

Past EPFL PhD Students

Yuan Zhang (2018), Teng Andrea Xu (2024)

Courses

Big Data and Machine Learning for Financial Economics

FIN-622

This class is an introduction to Machine Learning and High-Dimensional Statistics in Finance. We start with a purely empirical approach, focusing first on high-dimensional regressions, then moving to kernel methods and deep learning, and then studying equilibrium implications.

Machine learning in finance

FIN-407

This course aims to give an introduction to the application of machine learning to finance, focusing on the problems of portfolio optimization, return prediction, and textual analysis. A particular focus will be on deep learning and the practical details of applying deep learning models to finance.