Module Supervisor: Dr Yik-Chung WU (HKU email: ycwu at hku.hk)
Lecturer: Professor Edward TSANG (HKU email: epktsang at hku.hk)
Subclass A Teaching Assistant: Chaoyi XING (HKU email: u3013979 at connect.hku.hk)
Subclass B Teaching Assistant: Tingyu MO (HKU email: motingyu at connect.hku.hk)
Subclass C Teaching Assistant: Kaiyue SUN (HKU email: kaiyue at connect.hku.hk)
Moodle: AI in Finance
Subclass A [ELEC7082_2A_2025] /
Subclass B [ELEC7082_2B_2025] /
Subclass C [ELEC7082_2C_2025]
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Lectures Plan:
Following is a tentative teaching plan.
This plan will be adjusted according to progress and feedback from students.
Links to the lectures recorded in Moodle will be filled in below (login to access).
Lecture 1: Overview 2026.01.21/22/23
Lecture 2: Computation, the Missing Ingredient in Classical Economics 2026.01.28/29/30
Lecture 3: Machine Learning, Overview 2026.02.4/5/6
- Mock Test: Friday 2026.02.06 21:30-21:36 (6 minutes), 0%
Lecture 4: Machine Learning, Technical Details 2026.02.11/12/13
- Test 1: Friday 2026.02.13 21:15-21:45 (30 minutes), 20%
Lecture 5: Financial Forecasting with Genetic Programming 2026.02.25/26/27
Lecture 6: Directional Change for Knowledge Representation 2026.03.04/05/06
Lecture 7: Data analysis 2026.03.18/19/20
Lecture 8: Portfolio Optimization 2026.03.25/26/27
- Test 2: Friday 2026.03.27 21:15-21:45 (30 minutes), 20%
- Project specification
Lecture 9: Test 2 Review; Population-based Incremental Learning 2026.04.01/02/10
Lecture 10: Population-based Incremental Learning 2026.04.08/09/17
Lecture 11: Algorithmic Trading 2026.04.15/16/24
Lecture 12: Summary 2026.04.22/23/24
Lecture 13: AI at Finance Frontier (Non-examinable) 2026.04.29/30
- Project Deadline: 2026.05.09 12:00 noon, 30%
- Test 3: Friday 2026.05.15 19:15-20:00 (45 minutes), 30%
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Last updated: 2026.04.11
Background:
Mandelbrot set, which is
related to finance