香港城市大学（机器学习+金融）博士招生

To Prospective Students:

I am looking for prospective Ph.D. students who are interested in frontier research areas like empirical asset pricing via machine learning. One primary goal of my research is to develop statistical and machine learning methods for predicting asset returns in the cross-section and time series. Full scholarships (monthly stipend 16,500 HKD) are available for all admitted Ph.D. students.

CityU has a strong business school with top research ranking in the world (38, UTD ranking). Recent overall rankings of the university are 55 (QS), 110 (THE) and 172 (US News). Recent Ph.D. placements include top business schools in mainland China and financial sectors in HK. The particular research field of machine learning in finance has high research job demands in both academia and the hedge fund industry. Joint Ph.D. admission with our School of Data Science is also available.

Requirements:
1.Preferred majors: Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or any major with intensive statistics and programming training. Major GPA 3.5+ is required.
2.Preferred courses: mathematical statistics, econometrics, numerical linear algebra, and real analysis. Strong programming experience in is a high plus.

Prof. Gavin Feng
gavin.feng@cityu.edu.hk

原理机器学习还可以和金融结合起来啊。

想问一下如果没学过preferred courses是不是就不考虑录取？