Practice of Digital Finance – Research Workshop
Organized by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE)
Time & Location
15 Jan 2026, 09:00 – 16 Jan 2026, 17:00
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Piața Romană 6, Room Virgil Madgearu, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
About the event
The Practice of Digital Finance workshop provides a collaborative platform for doctoral researchers to present and discuss their ongoing work at the intersection of finance, technology, and data science.
Organized under the framework of the MSCA Doctoral Network “Digital Finance – Reaching New Frontiers”, this two-day event brings together MSCA fellows and ASE PhD students to exchange ideas, showcase research progress, and receive constructive feedback from faculty and peers.
The program includes:
Research presentations on topics such as artificial intelligence in finance, blockchain technologies, risk modeling, and sustainable digital innovation;
Thematic discussions focused on methodological approaches, empirical findings, and future publication strategies.
By fostering academic dialogue within the doctoral community, the event strengthens ASE’s and the DIGITAL network’s commitment to advancing rigorous and innovative research in digital finance across Europe.
We aim for PhD students to present their work. If you plan to present, please click the “Register” button, fill in your topic, and send your slides.
Time Schedule
Thursday (15/01)
10:00 – 10:20 → Registration
10:20 – 10:30 → Opening Session
10:30 – 11:00 → A Spectral Guide to the Spatial Weight Matrix Selection – Fulvio Raddi
11:20 – 11:50 → Improving Trustworthiness of Financial LLMs: A Research Proposal – Karolina Weyna
13:00 – 13:30 → First hitting time analysis for DeFi portfolios – Ginavar Andrei-Theodor
13:30 – 14:00 → FINDER-LLM: FINancial Anomaly DEtection and Recognition using Large Language Models – Siang-Li Jheng
14:20 – 14:50 → White paper on Cryptocurrency Indices – Găman Ștefan
14:50 – 15:30 → PhD Network Discussion
Friday (16/01)
10:00 – 10:30 → Registration
10:30 – 11:00 → Empirical Mode Decomposition – Wolfgang Karl Härdle
11:20 – 11:50 → Introducing Neobank models that work. Where do we stand? – Anastas Dzurovski
13:00 – 13:30 → Hierarchical Time series in finance – Owen Chafffard
13:30 – 14:00 → AI Listening to Central Bank: From words to market and macroeconomy – Rahul Tak
14:20 – 15:00 → PhD Network Discussion
15:00 – 15:30 → Closing Session