[Dec-09] Top 50 Research Achievement Awards, Korea Government

• Prof. SONG was honored as the recipient of the Top 50 Research Achievement Awards (Commendation) from the Korea Government (Ministry of Education).

[Nov-28]  1st Place Winner, Sovereign Wealth Fund KIC Research Paper Competition

• Team:  JANG Yunsu, SHIN Sungweon, and JUN Joon Ho 

[Nov-16]  2nd Place Winner, ACM ICAIF 2025 Cryptocurrency Forecasting Competition

• Team:  FINX@HYU (BYUN Jun Young, RYU Dongwon, OCK Seungeun, and SONG Jae Wook)

[Oct-30]  Outstanding Paper Award, KAFE

• • Authors:  SONG Jae Wook, RYU Dongwon, CHOI Young Hoon, OCK Seungeun, and BYUN Jun Young

[Oct-10]  Early Career Researcher Award, KSIE

• Prof. Song was honored as the recipient of the KSIE Early Career Researcher Award.

[Sep-01]  New Post-Doc, Graduate students, and Undergraduate Research Assistants

• SONG Jungyoon joined the FINX Lab as a post-doctoral researcher.

• JUN Joon Ho and JANG Yunsu completed their undergraduate RA program and entered into BS/MS degree program.

• SHIN Sungweon, KIM Soobeen, and LEE Jiwoo began their roles as undergraduate RAs in the FINX Lab.

[Aug-31]  M.S. Degree Conferred 

• LEE Dongwoo earned the MS degree and joined SK Hynix as a data scientist.

[Aug-31]  MS/PhD Degree Conversion Program

• NA Yosep was selected for the MS/PhD Degree Conversion Program.

[Aug-27]  Government Research Grant Awarded  |  NRF of Korea

• Robust Generative Representation Learning of Financial Data Using Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder and Its Applications

[Jul-09]  Industry Internship Training

• RYU Dongwon was selected for a two-month Data Science Internship at PwC Consulting.

[Jul-01]  Concurrent Employment During Ph.D. Program

• KIM Namhyoung was employed as a Quantitative AI Researcher at RiskX Tech while concurrently undergoing the dissertation review process for the doctoral degree. 

[Jun-16]  Industry Internship Training

• LEE Dongwoo was selected for a two-month Data Science Internship at PwC Consulting.

[May-19]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Dunamu

• Empirical Validation of On-chain Data-driven Factors in the Cryptocurrency Market.

[Mar-12]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  KFTC

• Analysis of Financial Activities using AI Technologies.

[Mar-06]  Industry Internship Training

• CHOI Young Hoon was selected as a six-month Quantitative Research Intern at StudioB Crypto.

[Mar-01]  New Graduate Students and Undergraduate Research Assistants

• KIM Juhwan completed the RA program and entered into the MS/PhD degree program.

• JUN Joon Ho and JANG Yunsu began their roles as undergraduate RAs in the FINX Lab.

[Jan-08]  Certification Achieved

• CHOI Young Hoon passed GARP-FRM Exam Part II and is now a GARP-FRM credential holder. 

[Sep-11]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• Yoonsang Lee and Jaewon Dong completed the RA program and returned to the University of Oxford.

[Sep-01]  New Graduate Students & Undergraduate RA

• Junyoung Park and Dongwon Ryu began their MS studies at FINX Lab.

• Yosep Na joined as an undergraduate RA.

[Aug-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• Dongwoo Lee completed the RA program and entered MS/PhD track.

[Aug-01]  New Undergraduate RA 

• Kyu Il Sim began his RA role (joint internship at SpaceMap).

[Jul-11]  Industry Consulting Project Awarded  |  S-Oil (w/ FastCampus)

• S-OIL CDS Training Intermediate (2023) course projects consulting.

[Jul-03]  New Undergraduate RAs

• Yoonsang Lee, Jaewon Dong, and Juhwan Kim joined as undergraduate RAs.

[Jul-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  RiskX Tech

• Pricing of Exotic Options and Structured Products via Machine Learning

[Jun-09]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Hyundai Glovis

• Used-vehicle-index and its time-series forecasting model

[Jun-01]  Government Research Grant Awarded  |  NRF of Korea

• Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio using Vector Quantization-Variational Autoencoder (w/ Prof. Chulwoo Han @ SKKU)

[May-13]  3rd Place, KSIE Student Research Competition

• 설명 가능한 인공지능을 이용한 지역별 출산율 차이 요인 분석 (Dongwoo Lee et al.)

[May-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  FnDataLab

• Machine Learning-driven risk rating assessment of global investment assets

[Apr-01]  Research Contract Awarded  |  Gyeongsangbuk-do Government

• Machine Learning-based simulator for healthy-life-years prediction

[Feb-28]  Completion of Post-doc & MS Programs

• Poongjin Cho joined Gachon University (Dept. of Software, AI Major) as Assistant Professor.

• Younghwan Cho earned an MS degree, remained at FINX through Jun-2023, then entered the PhD program at UIUC.

• Chulho Yoo earned an MS degree and joined PwC Consulting as a data scientist.

[Feb-01]  New Undergraduate RA

• Dongwoo Lee began his role as an undergraduate RA.

[Sep-11]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• LEE Yoonsang and DONG Jaewon completed the RA program and returned to the University of Oxford.

[Sep-01]  New Graduate Students & Undergraduate RA

• PARK Junyoung and RYU Dongwon began their MS studies at FINX Lab.

• NA Yosep joined as an undergraduate RA.

[Aug-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• LEE Dongwoo completed the RA program and entered MS/PhD track.

[Aug-01]  New Undergraduate RA 

• SIM Kyu Il began his RA role (joint internship at SpaceMap).

[Jul-11]  Industry Consulting Project Awarded  |  S-Oil (w/ FastCampus)

• S-OIL CDS Training Intermediate (2023) course projects consulting.

[Jul-03]  New Undergraduate RAs

• LEE Yoonsang, DONG Jaewon, and KIM Juhwan joined as undergraduate RAs.

[Jul-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  RiskX Tech

• Pricing of Exotic Options and Structured Products via Machine Learning

[Jun-09]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Hyundai Glovis

• Used-vehicle-index and its time-series forecasting model

[Jun-01]  Government Research Grant Awarded  |  NRF of Korea

• Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Portfolio using Vector Quantization-Variational Autoencoder (w/ Prof. Chulwoo Han @ SKKU)

[May-13]  3rd Place, KSIE Student Research Competition

• 설명 가능한 인공지능을 이용한 지역별 출산율 차이 요인 분석 (Dongwoo Lee et al.)

[May-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  FnDataLab

• Machine Learning-driven risk rating assessment of global investment assets

[Apr-01]  Research Contract Awarded  |  Gyeongsangbuk-do Government

• Machine Learning-based simulator for healthy-life-years prediction

[Feb-28]  Completion of Post-doc & MS Programs

• CHO Poongjin joined Gachon University (Dept. of Software, AI Major) as Assistant Professor.

• CHO Younghwan earned an MS degree, remained at FINX through Jun-2023, then entered the PhD program at UIUC.

• YOO Chulho earned an MS degree and joined PwC Consulting as a data scientist.

[Feb-01]  New Undergraduate RA

• LEE Dongwoo began his role as an undergraduate RA.

[Aug-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• PARK Min Ho completed the RA program and entered the MS degree program.

[Jul-11]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  IOI Soft

• Sales analytics based on graph neural network and natural language processing

[Jul-04]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Dunamu

• Development of machine learning based asset pricing factor model

[Jul-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Hyundai Glovis

• Wholesale used-vehicle pricing model compression based on deep learning

[Jul-01]  Research Contract Awarded  |  KOFPI

• 2022 business effectiveness analysis on fine dust reduction forest project

[Jun-13]  Industry Consulting Project Awarded  |  S-Oil (w/ FastCampus)

• S-OIL CDS Training Intermediate (2022) course projects consulting

[Mar-08]  Deputy Director Appointment

• CHO Poongjin was appointed Deputy Director of the FINX Lab and joined Hanyang University’s Dept. of Industrial Engineering as an Assistant Teaching Professor.

[Mar-01]  Internal Research Fund Awarded  |  HYU

• Multifractal analysis of cryptocurrency market using the capital asset pricing model filtering

[Feb-28]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• HAN Eunbi completed the RA program and entered the MS degree program at UIUC.

[Feb-07]   Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Confidential

• Pre-ISP for Artificial Intelligence-driven Competency Test

[Jan-03]  Industry Internship Training

• YOO Chulho was selected as a two-month internship at PwC Consulting.

[Jan-01]  New Undergraduate RA

• PARK Min Ho began his role as an undergraduate RA.

[Oct-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Hyperlounge

• Business analytics for small and medium-sized enterprises

[Sep-01]  New Undergraduate RA

• HAN Eunbi began her role as an undergraduate RA.

[Sep-01]  Government Research Grant Awarded  |  NRF of Korea

• A study on social policy to respond to changes in social structure such as polarization

[Jul-30]  MS/PhD Degree Conversion Program

• CHOI Young Hoon  was selected for the MS/PhD Degree Conversion Program.

[Jun-01]  Government Research Grant Awarded  |  NRF of Korea

• Loan eligibility classification model using explainable artificial intelligence

[May-01]  Research Contract Awarded  |  KOFPI

• 2021 business effectiveness analysis on fine dust reduction forest project

[Apr-27]  3rd Place, DB Foundation Financial-Economics Contest

• Team:  CHO Younghwan and YOO Chulho

[Mar-29]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  Hyundai Glovis

• Used vehicle retail price prediction and leasing/rental residual value estimation models

[Mar-01]  New Graduate Students

• KIM Namhyoung and OCK Seungeun began the MS/PhD program.

[Feb-28]  Completion of Post-doc & Undergraduate RA Programs

• PARK Ji Hwan completed the post-doc and joined the OCIO Research Center at Mirae Asset Global Investment.

• BYUN Jun Young completed the RA program and entered the MS/PhD degree program.

[Dec-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• PARK Sungbin completed the RA program and returned to Columbia University.

[Dec-04]  Certificate Progress

• CHOI Young Hoon passed GARP-FRM Exam Part I.

[Sep-25]  3rd Place, SCGF Big-Data Competition

• Team:  BYUN Jun Young, CHOI Young Hoon, and YOO Chulho

[Sep-01] BK21 Four Awarded (Team HYU-IE)  |  NRF of Korea

• An education and research team for sharing and cooperation-based smart systems

[Sep-01]  Internal Research Fund Awarded  |  Hanyang University

• Anomaly detection in financial time series using the Voronoi diagram

[Sep-01]  New Post-doc, Graduate Students, and Undergraduate RAs.

• PARK Ji Hwan joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

• YOO Chulho and CHO Young Hwan began their BS/MS degree program.

• BYUN Jun Young and PARK Sungbin joined the lab as undergraduate RAs.

[Mar-01]  New Graduate Student

• CHOI Young Hoon began his MS degree program.

[Sep-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded |  Hyundai Glovis w/ Polarium

• Current/future price prediction algorithm in used-vehicle market

[Sep-01]  Internal Research Fund Awarded  |  HYU

• Algorithm for predictive analytics based on the distribution of financial return series and its characteristics

[Sep-01]  Government Research Grant Proceeded  |  National Research Foundation of Korea

• Open financial data-driven mathematical models and interdisciplinary analytics for financial product innovation

[Sep-01]  Lab Establishment & Director Appointment

• Professor SONG Jae Wook was appointed to the Department of Industrial Engineering at Hanyang University as an Assistant Professor and established the Financial Innovation & Analytics (FINX) Lab.