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, Giuseppe Matera

Past EPFL PhD Students

Rémy Praz, Evgeny Petrov, Yuan Zhang, Julien Arsène Blatt, Erik Hapnes, Teng Andrea Xu, Boris Kuznetsov

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 purely empirical approach, focusing first on high dimensional regressions then moving to kernel methods and deep learning, and then study equilibrium models.

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.