April 2021 Newsletter

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News from the Hanlon Financial Systems Center
News from the Hanlon Financial Systems Center at Stevens Institute of Technology: Vol. 1, No. 3
Word from the Director
Dr. Ionut Florescu, Director of Hanlon Labs, shares updates for April 2021 with fellow students and colleagues.
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Refinitiv Machine Readable News
Refinitiv Real-time News is the only structured textual news service for programmatic use that is powered by Reuters News. Reuters is the largest international news agency with more journalists in more countries than anyone else. Reuters has a long history of market-moving beats and exclusives related to macroeconomics, M&A activity, CEO changes or corporate wrongdoing. Hanlon lab provides students with access to Refinitiv MRN data which can be used for research and for class projects. Click here
Stevens students accepted to attend the National Conference of Undergraduate Research through their innovative research efforts
Stevens students Eden Luvishis, Bharddwaj Vemulapalli, Joshua Ronai, and Patrick Walther were recently accepted to attend the National Conference of Undergraduate Research through their innovative research efforts this past summer, working under Dr. Ionut Florescu. Their project, titled Financial Time Series Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks, provides a new way of modeling stock data. Read more
Stevens Capco Algo Trading Competition
We are hosting the Stevens Capco Algo Trading Competition (SCATC) currently, and it started in March of this year. This has been the third year we've hosted this competition. We have 14 teams admitted this year and they come from different departments at Stevens (Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, Finance, etc.) and both graduate and undergraduate students. In this competition, each team will develop and validate their quantitative strategy in SHIFT system, which is a realistic market replaying system. All the strategies are algorithmic and no human effort is involved during trading. Their algorithm is competing in one simulated market against each other and historical orders. We have 5 events with different themes this year, which involves different market scenario and even trading in market that is simulated by bot agents. A cash prize will be awarded to the top 3 teams. The competition is going to end in early May after 5 sessions. Stay tuned for results!
Upcoming Events
Managing Machine Learning Risk: Interpretability and Robustness
In this talk, Agus Sudjianto, executive vice president and head of corporate model risk for Wells Fargo, will discuss how to make sophisticated machine learning models. This self-explanatory model construct also facilitates model robustness test and design, a critical aspect when models operate in dynamically changing or adversarial environments. 
April 15, 2021 | 5-6 pm

Virtual Lecture: Industry Applications in Supply Chain Analytics
This virtual lecture, given by Stevens' leading supply chain expert, will highlight industry application projects in the area of supply chain analytics. Supply chain analytics refers to improvements in operational efficiency and effectiveness through data-driven decisions at the strategic, operational and tactical levels.
April 16, 2021 | 9-10 am

Virtual Lesson: Strategic Management Process
Join the Stevens School of Business for a mini-lesson on strategic management with Prof. Pranav Garg. “Studying strategy will help you develop a holistic view of a firm and understand why firms difference in performance. The strategic management process is a set of analyses and choices that helps explain how and why a firm may gain competitive advantage vis-à-vis its rivals.”
April 22, 2021 | 8-9 am

Virtual Lecture: 6G and the Future of Mobile and Business
That’s not a typo. Even though 5G deployment is still in its earliest phases, planning and discussion surrounding the evolution to 6G wireless technology is starting to begin. This webinar will introduce the key drivers and core requirements for 6G, including discussion of 6G.
April 27, 2021 | 10-11 am
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