[Nov-15]  2nd Place, Antalpha Crypto Market Simulation Competition (ICAIF ’24)

• Team:  FINX@HYU (Dongwon Ryu, Jun Young Byun, and Jae Wook Song)

[Nov-8]  Outstanding Paper Award, KORMS

• Authors:  Seung Eun Ock, Jun Young Byun, Namhyoung Kim, and Jae Wook Song

[Sep-30]  Degree Program Change

• Dongwoo Lee switched from the MS/PhD to MS degree program.

[Sep-23]  Industry Research Projects Awarded  |  KCIS & WFRI

• (KCIS) Machine-learning-driven Data Imputation for MyData Merging

• (WFRI) Analysis of the Latest Global Trends in Research on Artificial Intelligence in Finance

[Sep-01]  Promotion to Associate Professor

• Professor Jae Wook Song, Director of the FINX Lab, was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Hanyang University.

[Aug-31]  M.S. Degree Conferred 

• Minho Park earned the MS degree and joined LG Energy Solution as a data scientist.

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

• Generative, Predictive, and Prescriptive Maintenance Architecture for Autonomous Production System (w/ Prof. Sukjoo Bae[PI] & Misuk Kim[Co-PI] @ HYU and Pilsung Kang[Co-PI] @ SNU)

[Jun-26]  Stage I Recognition, International Quant Championship (WorldQuant)

• Team:  Jun Young Byun, Min Ho Park

• Recognition:  1st Place (University Round),  Top 20% (Global)

[May-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  LG Electronics 

• Pilot Study on Machine Learning-Based Stock-Keeping Unit Management Solution

[Apr-08]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  KBank 

• Machine learning-based fear and greed index incorporating market sentiment and corporate value

[Mar-04]  Industry Internship Training

• Junyoung Park was selected for a six-month internship at FnGuide (AI Team).

[Mar-01]  Industry Research Project Awarded  |  FnDataLab 

• Machine Learning-Based Model Portfolios for Retirement Pension Management

[Feb-29]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• Joseph Na completed the RA program and entered the MS degree program.

[Jan-31]  Completion of the undergraduate RA program

• Kyu Il Sim completed the undergraduate RA and an internship at Spacemap.

[Jan-19]  Industry-Academic Scholarship Selection

• Min Ho Park was selected as an industry-academic scholarship student for LG Energy Solutions (DX @ CDO).

[Jan-18]  Short-term Study Abroad Selection

• Min Ho Park was selected for the Machine Learning and Data Mining program at NC State University (3 weeks, through Feb-10).

[Jan-01]  Lab Renaming

• The laboratory was renamed Financial Innovation & Decision Analytics (FINX) Lab to emphasizing decision-making research.

[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.

[Aug-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

• Min Ho Park 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

• Poongjin Cho 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

• Eunbi Han 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

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

[Jan-01]  New Undergraduate RA

• Min Ho Park 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

• Eunbi Han 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

• Young Hoon Choi 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:  Younghwan Cho and Chulho Yoo

[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

• Namhyoung Kim and Seung Eun Ock began the MS/PhD program.

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

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

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

[Dec-31]  Completion of Undergraduate RA Program

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

[Dec-04]  Certificate Progress

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

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

• Team:  Jun Young Byun, Young Hoon Choi, and Chulho Yoo

[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.

• Ji Hwan Park joined as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

• Chulho Yoo and Young Hwan Cho began their BS/MS degree program.

• Jun Young Byun and Sungbin Park joined the lab as undergraduate RAs.

[Mar-01]  New Graduate Student

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