Antoine Didisheim
Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer), Finance at University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolAntoine Didisheim is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Finance at the University of Melbourne who blends rigorous finance training with advanced machine learning expertise, holding a PhD from the Swiss Finance Institute and a Distinction MSc in Data Science from UCL. He researches AI applications in finance, with a recent focus on how large language models behave in financial forecasting, memory of returns for backtesting, long-context reasoning limits, and interpretable confidence metrics. His work has appeared in top finance journals, been covered by VoxEU and the Financial Times, and earned the Q-Group Jack Treynor Prize 2024. Equally comfortable with Python, R and C++, he combines academic insight with practical data-analytics experience from consulting and teaching roles. An underappreciated strength is his focus on model interpretability and behavioral-like biases in LLMs, bridging theoretical finance and real-world model risk.
9 years of coding experience
University College LondonMaster's degree, Finance, General, Master's degree, Finance, General at HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of LausanneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Finance, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Finance, General at SFI Swiss Finance Institute
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Github Skills (7)
javafx6
intellij-platform6
jetbrains6
intellij6
intellij-plugin6
java6
latex5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AntoineDidisheim/didipack
May 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 3 years 7 months
AntoineDidisheim/theta_project
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:185 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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