Joint Lab of Finance and Business Intelligence

Based on behavioral finance theory and neurofinance theory, Joint Lab of Finance and Business Intelligence is dedicated to modeling the decision-making behavior of financial markets and constructing transaction algorithms. From the two core modules of trading algorithm and trading system, the technical bottleneck of financial-market intelligent algorithm trading system is broken through. The application of algorithm trading in the stock, futures, and foreign exchange markets is explored. And an intelligent investment adviser financial quantitative trading system based on a digital intermediate platform is constructed. This includes extracting the characteristic variables that can accurately reflect the investors in the stock market, futures market, and foreign exchange market based on the frontier behavioral finance theory and neurofinance theory; Artificial intelligence method is adopted to continuously optimize and iterate, break through the limitations of traditional financial transaction algorithms, and form the core of a new generation of intelligent financial quantitative transaction algorithm database. It will build a clear design blueprint for an intelligent investment and care financial quantitative trading system and optimize the recommendation service for the customer's financial investment product.

Joint Directors

Joint Director Prof. Xiaolan Yang, Ph.D. in Economics from Zhejiang University, Vice Dean of School of Business and Management, Shanghai International Studies University. Professor Yang was selected as one of the "Four Batch’" Talents of Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Leading Talents of Shanghai. The main research fields of Professor Yang include behavioral experiment method, application of neural experiment methods in finance and economy, big data finance and financial science and technology. In recent years, professor Yang has undertaken many scientific research projects, such as national social science fund youth projects, national social science major projects sub-projects, and national self-science fund youth projects. Professor Yang has published multiple SCI/SSCI papers, including Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Economic Inquiry, and won Shanghai Philosophy Social Science Award.

Joint Director Prof. Xu Zhang, Neuroscientist, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for advancing science in developing countries) Fellow, and Member of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. He received his Ph.D. of Neuroscience from Karolinska Institute, Sweden, in July 1994. In 1994, he successively worked as a lecturer, associate professor and professor, and deputy director at the Neuroscience Institute of Fourth Military Medical University. In 1999, he became a professor and principal investigator in the Lab of Sensory System at Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was appointed as a professor of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Shanghai Brain-Intelligence Engineering Center, and President of Guangdong Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology respectively. He is also the President of the Chinese Neuroscience Society, the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Cell Biology, and the Vice President of the Pain Branch of the Chinese Medical Association.