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Two 4 year studentships of £16,000pa are offered in evolutionary computation applied to financial computing.
Financial trading is increasingly dominated by algorithms that compete for profit. Join us in the quest to evolve reliably profitable trading algorithms to fill the niches of the electronic marketplace. We plan to expose trading algorithms to the rigours of accelerated evolution that optimize their parameters using genetic algorithms and evolve entirely new algorithms using genetic programming.
We in the Computer Science department at UCL combine a unique set of skills and expertise that position us to accomplish this task. We bring together the UK PhD Centre in Financial Computing and CREST. The Financial Computing Centre is a collaboration of University College London (UCL), the London School of Economics (LSE), the London Business School (LBS) and twenty leading financial institutions; please visit www.financialcomputing.org to learn more. CREST builds on the three foundations of program dependence, information theory and optimisation to analyse, understand, and improve software. CREST hosts the monthly CREST Open Workshop Programme (the COWs); please visit http://crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ to learn more.
Starting in September 2013, successful candidates will undertake a one-year MRes (Masters of Research) with the Financial Computing Centre in their first year. The MRes comprises three Masters-level modules (selected from any suitable courses provided by UCL, LSE or LBS) plus a year-long research project. In years 2–4, the student will continue their PhD in SSE group.
We are happy to consider candidates from any scientific discipline. However, the successful candidate should demonstrate:
1. A strong academic background;
2. Strong quantitative and programming skills;
3. The ability to learn advanced maths, programming, and statistics.
Please direct any enquiries or applications to Prof. Mark Harman [log in to unmask] or Dr. Earl Barr [log in to unmask]
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