IEEE CIFEr 2014
IEEE

CIFEr 2014 Commitees

Organizing Committee

General Chair

Antoaneta Serguieva, General Chair CIFEr 2014 Antoaneta Serguieva
Chair Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Financial Computing and Analytics Group
Computer Science Department
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
phone: +44-203-108-1063
email: a.serguieva .a_t. ucl.ac.uk
www: www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/A.Serguieva.html

Honorary Chair

Ron Yager, Honorary ChairRonald R. Yager
Machine Intelligence Institute
Iona College
New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA
phone: 212 249 2047
fax: 646 350 0712
www: www.panix.com/~yager/HP/rry.html
Robert Golan, Honorary ChairRobert Golan
DBmind Technologies Inc.
2829 Indian Creek Drive, Suite 1211
Miami, Florida 33140, USA
phone: 305 695 9344
www: www.dbmind.com/pages/2/index.htm

Program Chair

Dietmar Maringer, Program ChairDietmar Maringer
Department of Quantitative Methods Economics and Business Faculty
University of Basel
Peter Merian-Weg 6, P.O. Box
Basel CH-4002, Switzerland
University of Geneva,Department of Economics
email: dietmar.maringer .a_t. unibas.ch
www: www.unibas.ch/maringer

Keynote, Tutorial, & Panel Session

Uzay Kaymak, Tutorial, & Panel Session ChairsUzay Kaymak
School of Industrial Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven 5600 MB, Netherlands
email: u.kaymak .a_t. ieee.org
www: is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/ukaymak
Antoaneta Serguieva, General Chair CIFEr 2014 Antoaneta Serguieva
Chair Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
Financial Computing and Analytics Group
Computer Science Department
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, UK
phone: +44-203-108-1063
email: a.serguieva .a_t. ucl.ac.uk
www: www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/A.Serguieva.html

Publication Chair

Berc Rustem, Publication ChairBerc Rustem
Department of Computing
Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
email: br a_t doc.ic.ac.uk
www: www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~br/
Vasile Palade, Publication ChairVasile Palade
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Coventry University
Priory Street, Coventry, CV1 5FB, United Kingdom
email: vasile.palade at coventry.ac.uk
www: www.coventry.ac.uk/vasile-palade/

Communications Chair & Webmaster

Rui Almeida, WebmastersRui J. Almeida
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Webmaster

Vytautas Savickas, WebmasterVytautas Savickas
University College London, London.

Treasurer

Dawn BaileyDawn Bailey
University College London
Dept. of Computer Science
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
email: D.Bailey .a_t. cs.ucl.ac.uk
www: UCL department of Computer Science

Venue Sponsor

Samuel Murray, Venue SponsorSamuel Murray
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, USA.

CFE TC Representatives - IEEE CFE TC Website

Uzay Kaymak, IEEE CFE TC ChairUzay Kaymak
School of Industrial Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven 5600 MB, Netherlands
email: u.kaymak .a_t. ieee.org
www: is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/ukaymak
Chenghui CaiChenghui Cai
MQT Investments LLC
10 Exchange Place
6299 Austin St. FL2
Rego Park, New York 11374, USA
email: caichenghui .a_t. gmail.com
www: www.aitrading.org
Akira NamatameAkira Namatame
Dept. of Computer ScienceNational Defense Academy
Hashirimizu 1-10-20
okosuka, Kanagawa 239-8686, Japan
email: nama .a_t. nda.ac.jp
www: www.nda.ac.jp/~nama

Program Committee

Honorary Program Committee

Yaneer Bar-Yam, Honorary Program CommitteeYaneer Bar-Yam
New England Complex Systems Institute, USA.
John Birge, Honorary Program CommitteeJohn Birge
University of Chicago, USA.
Piero Bonissone, Honorary Program CommitteePiero Bonissone
General Electric GRC, USA.
Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Honorary Program CommitteeBernadette Bouchon-Meunier
CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
Mark Broadie, Honorary Program CommitteeMark Broadie
Columbia University, USA.
Peter Carr, Honorary Program CommitteePeter Carr
Morgan Stanley, USA.
Andrew Lo, Honorary Program CommitteeAndrew Lo
MIT, USA.
Michael Dempster, Honorary Program CommitteeMichael Dempster
Univ. Cambridge, and CSA, UK.
J. Doyne Farmer, Honorary Program CommitteeJ. Doyne Farmer
Univ. Oxford, UK.
David Fogel, Honorary Program CommitteeDavid Fogel
Natural Selection Inc, USA.
John Moody, Honorary Program CommitteeJohn Moody
ICSI, Berkeley, USA.
William Shaw, Honorary Program CommitteeWilliam Shaw
Univ. Colege London, and Winton Capital, UK.
Philip Treleaven, Honorary Program CommitteePhilip Treleaven
Univ. College London, UK
Edward Tsang, Honorary Program CommitteeEdward Tsang
Univ. Essex, UK.
Rachel Yager, Honorary Program CommitteeRachel Yager
Business School at Metropolitan College of New York, USA
Xin Yao, Honorary Program CommitteeXin Yao
Univ. Birmingham, UK.

Competition Committee

Peter BelingPeter Beling
Associate Professor
University of Virginia, USA
William SchererWilliam Scherer
Associate Professor
University of Virginia, USA
Roy HayesRoy Hayes
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Virginia, USA
Mark PaddrikMark Paddrik
Office of Financial Research
U.S. Treasury Department, USA

Competition Programming/Coding Team

Scott TepsupornScott Tepsuporn
B.S. Student
University of Virginia, USA
Art ChaidarunArt Chaidarun
B.S. Student
University of Virginia, USA

International Program Commitee

Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova, Banco de Mexico, Mexico

Rui Jorge Almeida, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Amir Atiya, University of Cairo, Egypt

Nalan Basturk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Peter Beling, University of Virginia, United States

Matthew Butler, iPerceptions, Canada

Shu-Heng Chen, NCCU, Taiwan

Vladimir Cherkassky, University of Minnesota, United States

Wei Cui, University College Dublin, Ireland

Sebastian Deininger, Business and Economics Faculty, Uni Basel, Switzerland

Manfred Gilli, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies Inc., United States

Kiyoshi Izumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Michael Kampouridis, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Uzay Kaymak, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Susan Kriete-Dodds, University of Basel, Switzerland

Philip Leong, University of Sydney, Australia

Serafin Martinez Jaramillo, Banco de Mexico, Mexico

Viorel Milea, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Wing Lon Ng, University of Kent, United Kingdom

Nikolay Nikolaev, Goldsmiths College, United Kingdom

Michael O'Neill, UCD, Ireland

Christian Oesch, University of Basel, Switzerland

Sandra Paterlini, European Business School Wiesbaden, Germany

Peter Sarlin, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Olivier Scaillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Vitaly Schetinin, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Kurt Schmidheiny, University of Basel, Switzerland

Enrico Schumann, VIP Value Investment Professionals AG, Switzerland

Antoaneta Serguieva, University College London, United Kingdom

Easwar Subramanian, Tata Consultancy Services, India

Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Marco Wiering, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Anna Wilbik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Garnett Wilson, Afinin Labs, Inc., Canada

Peter Winker, University of Giessen, Germany

Steve Young, Steven, United States

Jin Zhang, University of Basel, Switzerland