“Conceive, model and quantify the forces and threats of finance in the digital society in order to optimise the use of human intelligence.”
Duc PHAM-HI
Head of the Finance & Quantitative Engineering Major
Anticipating future jobs in the financial sector
The combination of artificial intelligence and automated networks of distributed services/data (“blockchains”) is transforming the banking, financial and insurance industries. At the same time, our societal structure has shifted from a mindset of physical possession to one of virtualized sharing and continuous updating.
The objectives of the training
- Mastering the benefits and dangers of life through mathematical approaches
- Tame the math with numerical analysis and stochastic simulation techniques
- Transforming fears into processable multidimensional models
- Learn to frame risks through quantitative and analytical thinking
Curriculum
The triptych Teaching – Learning – Projects in the Finance and Quantitative Engineering Major at ECE follows the following guidelines: courses and subjects redesigned for a digital finance, math in design thinking, preservation of traditional strengths. The partnership with the research lab (with its autonomous heterogeneous agent macroeconomic models), which allows teaching – and researching – the practice of strategic forecasting around cryptocurrencies, is a specificity of the ECE.
- Stochastic differential equations
- VBA language
- Artificial intelligence
- Rate curve
- Quantitative macroeconomics
- Machine learning applied
- Cryptocurrency law
- …
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Focus on Duc Pham-Hi, Head of the Finance & Quantitative Engineering Major.
- Engineer ECP (1980)
- Doctor of Engineering (1985)
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Sorbonne (1979)
- Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (1981)
- Previous positions held:
- Executive assistant of the Banque de France
- Previous academic positions:
- Associate Professor École Centrale Paris (operational research)
Some partner companies of the training.
(Liste non exhaustive)
Examples of opportunities
- Exotic products trader
- Commando” developer for trading rooms
- Risk manager
- Middle officer in banks
- Project manager of trading room software packages
- Data scientist
- Blockchain engineer
- Cryptocurrency Strategist
- Digital transformation consultant
- …