Best Paper Award

Best Paper:

The Effect of Liquidity on the Spoofability of Financial Markets

Authors: Anri Gu (University of Michigan)*; Yongzhao Wang (University of Michigan); Chris Mascioli (University of Michigan); Mithun Chakraborty (University of Michigan); Rahul Savani (Univ. of Liverpool); Theodore Turocy (University of East Anglia); Michael Wellman (University of Michigan)

Best Paper Runner Up:

FinQAPT: Empowering Financial Decisions with End-to-End LLM-driven Question Answering Pipeline

Authors: Kuldeep Singh (Michigan State University)*; Simerjot Kaur (JP Morgan Chase); Charese Smiley (JP Morgan Chase)

Best Paper Honorary Mention:

Cluster-driven Hierarchical Representation of Large Asset Universes for Optimal Portfolio Construction.

Authors: Nail Khelifa (ENSAE Paris); Jérôme Allier (ENSAE Paris); Mihai Cucuringu (University of Oxford and The Alan Turing Institute)*

FraudGT: A Simple, Effective, and Efficient Graph Transformer for Financial Fraud Detection. 

Authors: Junhong Lin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)*; Xiaojie Guo (IBM Research); Yada Zhu (IBM Research); Samuel Mitchell (MIT); Erik Altman (IBM); Julian Shun (MIT)