Computational Economics and Finance
Farshid Balaneji
External PhD candidate
Current position
I am an external Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Fields of interest
Primary: Machine Learning Methods in Algorithmic Trading
Secondary: Natural Language Processing
Work in Progress
Classifying the price trends on the S&P 500 by studying the news.
Education
Master of Science: Scientific Computing
Heidelberg University - Germany
Thesis: Financial Networks: From a Copula Perspective
Master of Science: Quantitative Finance
University of Bologna - Italy
Thesis: Studying Banking systems In the Light of System's Signature
Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering
Amir Kabir University of Technology - Iran