This award includes a fast-tracked review and possible publication of the paper in the Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Economics, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Topic Editors: Alessia Paccagnini, University College Dublin and CAMA, Maria Iannario, University of Naples Federico II, Joerg Osterrieder, University of Twente and Berner Fachhochschule BFH, Adamaria Perotta, University College Dublin, Fabio Parla, University of Palermo, Hanna Kristín Skaftadóttir, Bifrost University.
The Best WI-FI 2024 Young researcher Paper will be selected by the Young Researcher Workshop Panel together with representatives of the Diversity team from all papers being at the same time orally presented by the Young researcher authors during regular sessions of the Woman in Fintech 2024 Conference.
The young researcher must be the lead investigator of the paper, which is certified by the researcher’s advisor. The quality of the presented paper itself (and not its oral presentation) will predominantly determine the evaluation.
This year’s finalists are:
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- Ștefana Belbe (Cioban) with “Evaluation of the space-time effects of Covid-19 on loans and savings in Romania – A spatial panel data approach at county level”
Ștefana Belbe (Cioban)
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- Antonio Cola & Rosario Urso with “Statistical Analysis of FinTech Data: Insights from Unsupervised to Supervised Approaches”
Antonio Cola & Rosario Urso
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- Christos Adam with “Segmenting female students’ perceptions about Fintech using Explainable AI”
Christos Adam
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- Sofia Giantsidi with “Optimizing Financial Forecasting: Reservoir Computing and Self-Adaptive Cuckoo-Genetic Algorithm”
Sofia Giantsidi
- Stina Morina with “Beyond the Screen: Banking Conversational AI”<\li>
Stina Morina
The finalists are asked to prepare a speed talk, where they will be assessed based on the quality of the research. The winner will receive an award which includes a fast-tracked review and possible publication of the paper in the Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Finance and Economics”, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
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Contest Chair
Maria Iannario (Università degli Studi di Napoli – Federico II)
Contest committee
- Petros Dellaportas, Athens University of Economics and Business
- Alessandra Tanda (University of Pavia)
Jury Members
- Ioana Coita
(University of Oradea) - Petre Lameski
(“Ss. Cyril and Methodius” University – Skopje) - Daniele Marazzina
(Politecnico di Milano) - Codruta Mare
(Babeș-Bolyai University) - Jörg Robert Osterrieder
(Bern University of Applied Sciences) - Belma Ozturkkal
(Kadir Has University) - Alessia Paccagnini
(Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School University College Dublin) - Rezarta Perri
(University of Tirana) - Albulena Shala
(University of Prishtina) - Catarina Silva
(University of Coimbra) - Elevtheria Paschalidou
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
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