UK PhD Centre in Financial Computing

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01 Financial Computing PhD Centre

Financial Computing PhD Centre

We are a national PhD training centre, covering financial IT, computational finance and financial engineering. A unique collaboration between UCL, LSE and the London Business School.

02 Our finance industry partners

Our finance industry partners

We have partnerships with 20 leading financial institutions. Our PhD students work closely with industry advisors on applied research projects within financial services companies.

03 Flexible PhD programme

Flexible PhD programme

4-year PhDs in a diverse range of research departments including computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, mechanical engineering and other areas applicable to financial computing.

04 Top academic resources

Top academic resources

With access to the most respected academic advisors in the field of financial computing, our students work with supervisors who can help them achieve a deep knowledge of their research subject areas.

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Featured Student

Sergio Alvarez is mainly interested in algorithmic trading (high or low frequency):

Long-short strategies, statistical arbitrage, options vs cash (borrow rates' signaling), etc.

We’re researching:

Machine learning, algorithmic trading, stochastic calculus, portfolio theory, artificial intelligence...

Explore the specialist research topics of our enrolled PhD students at the PhD Centre in Financial Computing.