The Computer Engineering Lab (http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/cel/) in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering is seeking postdoctoral researchers for a research initiative funded by the Australian Research Council and Westpac Bank. Applicants should have completed their PhD in machine learning.
This project involves the use of parallel computing and machine learning to improve the management of a bank’s foreign exchange risk. An environment will be developed to provide an interface to scalable computational resources to manage large quantities of foreign exchange data. Machine-learning techniques will then be applied to forecast market activity in this environment.
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