Time Title Speakers/Authors
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks Manuela Veloso / Sameena Shah
(J.P. Morgan AI Research)
9:00-9:40 Keynote: Machine Learning in Finance - Lessons Learned Charles Elkan
(Goldman Sachs)
9:40-9:50 “The Cat is Out of the Bag” Explainable Risk Ranking with Financial Reports Ting-Wei Lin
(National Chengchi University)
9:50-10:00 Economic News Impact Analysis Using Causal-Chain Search from Textural Data Kiyoshi Izumi
(University of Tokyo)
10:00-10:10 Mining company sustainability reports to aid financial decision-making Tushar Goel
(Tata Consultancy)
10:10-10:20 Leveraging Contextual Text Representations for Anonymizing German Financial Documents David Biesner
(Fraunhofer)
10:20-10:30 A Robust Transferable Deep Learning Framework for Cross-sectional Investment Strategy Kei Nakagawa
(Nomura Asset Management)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:40 Keynote: Learning from Incidental Supervision Signals Dan Roth
(University of Pennsylvania)
11:40-11:50 The Automated Venture Capitalist: Data and Methods to Predict the Fate of Startup Ventures Mohammad Ghassemi
(Ghamut Corporation)
11:50-12:00 Classifying and Understanding Financial Transaction Data Using Graph Neural Network Xiaoxiao Li
(Yale University)
12:00-12:10 Label Augmentation via Time-based Knowledge Distillation for Financial Anomaly Detection Hongda Shen
(University of Alabama in Huntsville)
12:10-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:10 Keynote: Advancing Textual Question Answering Danqi Chen
(Princeton University)
2:10-2:50 Keynote: Minimally Supervised Knowledge Graph Induction from Text Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo
(IBM Research)
2:50-3:30 Panel Panelists
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Poster Session