PhD Position in Machine Learning for Digital Fincance

at  Universiteit Twente

KEY TAKEAWAYS

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  Hours
  38 - 40 hr.
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  Salary indication
  Salary gross/monthly
  based on full-time
  € 2,770 - € 3,539
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  Deadline
  5 May 2024
  You will be a member of the MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network on Digital Finance, a European Research and Training programme with several leading European universities and companies involved, such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where you will spend at least 18 months in total.
  In your project, you will do research on and apply machine learning techniques to make a real-world impact in academia and at financial institutions. A potential research topic is the design of an intelligent search bot that maximises AI technologies to improve the accessibility and user experience of public data portals. Further research will focus on ML techniques and NLP to improve supervisory technology (Suptech) methods. Both topics are relevant and of interest to the ECB and BIS, e.g. as part of their tool Olympus, that provides support in various areas, such as advanced analytics, process automation and digital collaboration.
  You will join the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems (IEBIS) section of the High-tech Business & Entrepreneurship Department (HBE) at the Faculty of Behavioral Management and Social Sciences (BMS).
  Background
  This Ph.D. position is one four positions at the University of Twente (UT) and one of 19 positions in the context of the international Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions project DIGITAL. Information about all other positions is available at EURAXESS, if you are interested in any of the other positions as well, clearly state that in your cover letter.
  DIGITAL’ main goal is to significantly advance the methodologies and business models for Digital Finance through five interconnected research objectives:
• Towards a European financial data space
• Artificial intelligence for financial markets
• Towards explainable and fair AI-generated decisions
• Driving digital innovations with Blockchain applications
• Sustainability of Digital Finance
  Those are all key strategic priorities of the European Commission over the next five years.
  The challenge
  A competitive European financial sector is vital for the modernization of the European economy across sectors and to turn Europe into a global digital player.
  Are you prepared to reshape the financial sector by doing research on those topics? If this resonates with you, this position could be your ideal opportunity!

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