The following people actively contribute to the success of Advanced Financial Systems Research. Their expertise ranges from Natural Language Processing, Fuzzy Logic and Advanced User Interfaces Modelling to Algorithm Theory, Computer Science and Advanced Statistics.
Marco Costantino - Ph.D. M.Sc. BA
Marco Costantino specialises in Natural Language Processing and Information Extraction applied to finance. He has written several publications in leading international journals and participated to several international conferences. He was also interviewed in a study conducted by the European Commission regarding the use of Natural Language Processing and Speech Recognition in the financial industry and was cited in the European Commission Journal The Journal of Record For Human Language Technology as one of the leading experts of this field. He has been chairman of the International Conference on Computational Finance 2004. To be held in Bologna, Italy, between the 21-23 April 2004.
He is currently head of equity derivatives quantitative development technology at Royal Bank of Scotland Financial Markets in London.
Paolo Coletti - Ph.D. M.Sc. BA
Paolo Coletti got a Master Degree in Mathematics at the University of Trento, Italy. After his PhD in Applied Mathematics in the field of computational fluid dynamics, he worked as a researcher on statistical language models and user-machine dialogue interfaces. He is currently professor of Computer Science at the School of Economics and Management and professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy. His current research topics include concept extraction from financial news, statistical models for financial decisions and for technical analysis.