FI 8092 - AI and Advanced Analytics Applications in Finance

3 Credit Hours
Corequisites: FI 8090.
Description
This is an advanced graduate elective course on artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics applications in finance. Students will develop skills for applying modern machine learning methods and other analytics techniques to address practical problems encountered in asset management, corporation finance, and financial institutions settings. Students will develop programming skills using Python language for the applications of these methods. The techniques discussed and applied include tree regression, neutral network, textual analysis, web scraping, data visualization, and model assessment and selection using cross-validation.