CIFEr 2012 Committees
Organizing Committee
General Chair
 | Ronald R. Yager Machine Intelligence Institute Iona College New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA phone: 212 249 2047 fax: 646 350 0712 email: yager .a_t. panix.com www: www.panix.com/~yager/HP/rry.html |
Program Chair
 | Robert Golan DBmind Technologies Inc. 2829 Indian Creek Drive, Suite 1211 Miami, Florida 33140, USA phone: 305 695 9344 email: golan .a_t. dbmind.com www: www.dbmind.com/pages/2/index.htm |
Finance Chair
 | Chenghui Cai Global Market Opera Solutions, LLC 10 Exchange Place Jersey City, NJ 07302, USA email: caichenghui .a_t. gmail.com www: www.aitrading.org |
Publication Chair
 | Adam Ghandar School of Computer Science University of Adelaide South Australia, 5000, Adelaide, Australia email: adam.ghandar .a_t. adelaide.edu.au www: www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/adam.ghandar |
Honorary Chair
 | Tomaso Poggio MIT, USA. |
Liaison for CIFEr 2013 in Singapore
 | Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore IEEE CIFEr 2013 site |
Liaison for CIFEr 2014 in London
 | Antoaneta Serguieva Computer Science Intelligent Systems Group Centre in Financial Computing University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT, UK phone: +44-203-108-1063 fax: +44-207-387-1397 email: a.serguieva .a_t. ucl.ac.uk www: www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/people/A.Serguieva.html |
NYC Venue Sponsor
 | Eric Newcomer Credit Suisse, USA. |
CFE TC Representatives - IEEE CFE TC Website
 | Shu-Heng Chen, Chair AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics National Chengchi University #64 Zhinan Road Sec. 2 Taipei 11623, Taiwan phone: +886-2-2938-7308 email: chen .shuheng .a_t. gmail.com www: www.aiecon.org/ |
 | Dirk Van den Poel, Vice Chair Marketing Modeling / Analytical CRM Ghent University Tweekerkenstraat 2 Gent B-9000, Belgium email: dirk.vandenpoel .a_t. ugent.be www: www.crm.ugent.be |
 | Xuezhong He, Vice Chair School of Finance and Economics University of Technology PO Box 123 Sydney, NSW 2007 , Australia phone: +61 2 9514 7726 fax: +61 2 9514 7711 email: tony.he1 .a_t. uts.edu.au www: datasearch.uts.edu.au/business/staff/finance/details.cfm?StaffId=85 |
Keynote, Tutorial, & Panel Session Chairs
 | José M. Merigó University of Barcelona, Spain. |
 | Uzay Kaymak University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands. |
 | G. A. Vijayalakshmi Pai PSG College of Technology, India. |
Meeting Management
 | David Jaffe Jaffe Management Inc., New York, USA. |
Local Industry Liaisons
 | Phillip Bennet Deutsche Asset Management, USA. |
 | Jan Dash Bloomberg LP, USA. |
 | Roy S. Freedman Inductive Solutions, Inc, USA. |
 | David vun Kannon Deloitte, USA. |
Webmasters
 | Rui J. Almeida Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
 | Viorel Milea Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
Program Committee
Honorary Program Committee
 | Yaser Abu-Mostafa CalTech, USA. |
 | John Birge University of Chicago, USA. |
 | Piero Bonissone General Electric GRC, USA. |
 | Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier Université Denis Diderot, France. |
 | Mark Broadie Columbia University, USA. |
 | Peter Carr Morgan Stanley, USA. |
 | Michel Crouhy NATIXIS, France. |
 | Emanuel Derman Columbia University, USA. |
 | Stephen Figlewski Stern School of Business, USA. |
 | David Fogel Natural Selection Inc, USA. |
 | Paul Glasserman Columbia University, USA. |
 | Andrew Lo MIT, USA. |
 | Robert J. Marks Baylor University, USA. |
 | John Moody ICSI, Berkeley, USA. |
 | John Mulvey Princeton University, USA. |
 | Lei Xu Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. |
Program Committee
Mohammad Saad Al-Ahmadi, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Hans Amman, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Peter Angeline, Resurgent Capital Services, USA
Payman Arabshahi, University of Washington, USA
Mohamed Arkate, Ullink, France
Amir Atiya, Cairo University, Egypt
Alireza Bahiraie, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA
Rob Blake, RR Donnelley, USA
Anthony Brabazon, University College Dublin, Ireland
Derek Bunn, London Business School, UK
Chenghui Cai, Duke University, USA
Agostino Capponi, Purdue University, USA
Montserrat Casanovas, University of Barcelona, Spain
Oscar Castillo, Tijuana Inst. Technology, Mexico
Pei-Chann Chang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Vladimir Cherkassky, University of Minnesota, USA
Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Dave Coker, London School of Business and Finance, UK
Ben Collingsworth, Harris Corp, USA
Gavan Corr, NYSE Technologies, USA
Maciej Dabrowski, Deri, Ireland
Jan Dash, Bloomberg LP, USA
Herbert Dawid, Bielefeld University, Germany
Suash Deb, C. V. Raman College of Engineering, India
Vasant Dhar, Stern NYU, USA
Mark Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Camilo Franco, Barcelona University, Spain
Gianluca Garbellotto, Iphix, USA
Adam Ghandar, University of Adelaide, Australia
Anna Gil-Lafuente, University of Barcelona,Spain
Manfred Gilli, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Salvo Greco, University of Catania, Italy
Walter Hamscher, Standard Advantage, USA
Daryl Hepting, University of Regina, Canada
Ariful Hoque, University of South Australia, Australia.
Woo Chang Kim, ISysE, KAIST, Korea.
Xian Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Yuxi Li, University of Alberta, Canada
Fan-Yong Liu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Milan Lovric, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Thomas Lux, University of Kiel and Kiel Inst. for the World Econ., Germany
Dietmar Maringer, University of Basel, Switzerland
David Martens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Serafin Martinez-Jaramillo, Mexican Central Bank, Mexico
Scott Mathews, Boeing, USA
Benjamin Melamed, Rutgers University, USA
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Attilio Meucci, Kepos Captial, USA
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of Adelaide, Australia
Asuncion Mochon Saez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Thomaidis Nikolaos, University of the Aegean, Greece
Ahmed Okasha, University of Kent, USA
Daniel Paraschiv, CIMRU National University of Ireland, Ireland
Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Zachary Pessin, Distributed Capital Inc, USA
David Quintana, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Christina Ray, Omnis, USA
Andri Riid, University of Estonia, Estonia
Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Saeed Roohani, Bryant University, USA
Yago Saez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Christer Samuelsson, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Martínez Serafin, Mexican Central Bank, Mexico
Wolfgang Schulze, Credit Suisse, USA
Koray Simsek, Sabanci University, Turkey
Akash Singh, IBM, USA
Andy Singleton, Assembla, USA
Roman Slowinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Chung-Ching Tai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Edward Tsang, University of Essex, UK
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane University, Japan
Dave Twardowski, Dartmouth College, USA
Stanislav Uryasev, University of Florida, USA
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Laurentiu Vasiliu, Peracton, Ireland
Daniel Veit, University of Mannheim, Germany
Susana Vieira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Paul Vincent, Tibco, USA
Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marco Wiering, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mike Willis, PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, USA
Garnett Wilson, Afinin Labs Inc., Canada
James Wong, ITG, USA
Joe Wood, Credit Suisse, USA
Liuren Wu, Baruch College, USA
Donald C. Wunsch, Missouri University, USA
Katsutoshi Yada, Kansai University, Japan
Rachel L. Yager, Metropolitan College of New York, USA
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Philip Yu, Hong Kong University, China
Tongkui Yu, Beijing Normal University, China
Wojciech Ziarko, University of Regina, Canada
Alex Zolotovitski, Microsoft, USA
Matthew Butler, University of York, UK
Fabon Dzogang, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Peter Sarlin, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Local IEEE Liaisons
Ajaijoe Koola IEEE NY Section Conference Coordinator, USA.
International Program Commitee
Rui Almeida | Payman Arabshahi | Amir Atiya |
Alireza Bahiraie | Nalan Basturk | Philip Bennett |
Anthony Brabazon | Matthew Butler | Chenghui Cai |
Agostino Capponi | Oscar Castillo | Vladimir Cherkassky |
Dave Coker | Maciej Dabrowski | Fabon Dzogang |
Enric Junqué de Fortuny | Gianluca Garbellotto | Adam Ghandar |
Robert Golan | Guido Governatori | Walter Hamscher |
David Jaffe | Woochang Kim | Ajaijoe Koola |
Xian Li | Yuxi Li | Jose Lindahl |
Milan Lovric | Dietmar Maringer | David Martens |
Scott Mathews | Viorel Milea | Daniel Paraschiv |
David Quintana | Graham Rong | Peter Sarlin |
Martínez Serafin | Antoaneta Serguieva | Akash Singh |
Ponnuthurai Suganthan | Nikolaos Thomaidis | Edward Tsang |
Laurentiu Vasiliu | Susana Vieira | Pai Viji |
Lipo Wang | Marco Wiering | Garnett Wilson |
James Wong | Liuren Wu | Ronald Yager |
Philip Yu | Tongkui Yu |