EIM and Perpetuals Launch Doctoral Research Group Focused on AI in Financial Markets

More than 20 EIM doctoral researchers are working on sophisticated AI trading models at a leading AI trading company.

20+ doctoral researchers

More than 20 EIM doctoral researchers are involved in the initiative.

3+ years

The initiative is expected to run for at least three years, reflecting the doctoral research cycle.

Focus areas

Behavioral finance, trader performance classification, market microstructure, and model risk.

Doctoral Research Discussion Around Table

Research Group

About the Research Group

EIM doctoral students are working alongside Perpetuals’s team to develop sophisticated AI trading models that combine machine learning with crowd intelligence to surface unique market insights. With direct access to Perpetuals’s proprietary trading datasets and live venue data, researchers are focusing on behavioral finance, trader performance classification, market microstructure, and model risk.

The initiative is led by Patrick Gruhn, CEO of Perpetuals and Professor of Practice in Quantitative Finance at EIM. More than half of the participating researchers are currently employees of Perpetuals.

Rigorous doctoral research meets real-world trading data.

Working with a renowned academic institution like EIM gives Perpetuals even more engineering firepower. Adding these doctoral researchers to our data...

Patrick Gruhn

CEO of Perpetuals

This collaboration creates an opportunity to examine important applications for using real-world financial-market data and infrastructure. There's rea...

Prof. Dr. Michael Neubert

Head of Institution at EIM