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From: "Aste, Tomaso" t.aste@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Lecturer Senior lecturer position opening Date: 22 May 2014 17:01:41 pm GMT+1
We are advertising a new position in our group:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIU153/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-financial-compu... Deadline for application June 16.
We are looking to complement and strengthen our existing expertise in Financial Computing & Analytics by recruiting an outstanding researcher with expertise in computational finance and other related areas such as: financial risk modelling, statistical analysis of financial data and big data analytics, computational valuation of financial securities. Candidates should have demonstrated capability of initiating and conducting exciting world-class research. They will be evaluated chiefly on the significance and novelty of their research to date, their promise of leading a group in a fruitful program of research and their capability to teach computational finance related subjects.
Members of the Financial Computing & Analytics group (http://fincomp.cs.ucl.ac.uk/) work in a broad area that includes algorithmic trading, valuation and hedging of derivatives, portfolio optimisation, risk modelling, high-frequency trading, financial data analytics, econophysics, complex systems, agent-based modelling. Furthermore, there is a growing activity in high-performance computing with both CPU and GPU clusters, as well as big data handling, sharing and processing. The group has ongoing collaborations with a large number of financial firms. Our Centre for Doctoral Training and our master programs (http://fincomp.cs.ucl.ac.uk/courses/) attract world-class students. The Computer Science Department at UCL is a very exciting environment for research with great facilities and strong tradition in interdisciplinary studies. UCL has retained fourth place in the QS World University Rankings 2013/14 (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings), making UCL one of the four UK universities in the top ten and the second ranked UK institution after the University of Cambridge.
Please forward this mail to potentially interested applicants.
Regards, Tomaso
Tomaso Aste t.aste@ucl.ac.uk UCL Computer Science http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/tomaso_aste/ Malet Place Tel. +44 20 7679 0430 London WC1E 6BT Fax. +44 20 7387 1397
New Publication: http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140404/srep04589/full/srep04589.html
— Dr. Guido Germano
Senior Lecturer, Financial Computing and Analytics Group Admissions Tutor, MSc Financial Risk Management Department of Computer Science, University College London Mail: Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Office: Room 6.02, Malet Place Engineering Building, London WC1E 7JE Tel. +44 20 7679 3697, fax +44 20 7387 1397, cell. +49 170 8090109 g.germano@ucl.ac.uk, www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.germano
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