Latest News

Recent updates and announcements from the BRAINS research group.



December 25, 2025
AI-R2D2 Workshop at IEEE ICBC 2026

Following our inaugural AI-R2D2 workshop at the ACM AI in Finance Conference (ICAIF 2025) in Singapore (November 2025), we are organizing the next edition at IEEE ICBC 2026 in Brisbane, Australia (June 2026).

Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2026

Co-organizers: Zachary Feinstein, Wei Cai, Mary Lai Salvaña, Aaron Green, and Fernando Spadea.

Learn more about AI-R2D2 →

December 22, 2025
Faculty Spotlight in CRAFT Annual Report

Oshani Seneviratne is featured in the Faculty Spotlight Q&A in the CRAFT 2025 Annual Report.

Read the CRAFT 2025 Annual Report →

November 28, 2025
Keynote at Solid Symposium 2026

Oshani Seneviratne will be giving a keynote address at the Solid Symposium (30 April – 1 May) in London.

View Solid Symposium Speakers →

November 17, 2025
FinSurvival Competition Winners Announced

Oshani Seneviratne, along with Fernando Spadea, Kristin Bennett, Aaron Green, Adrien Pavão, and Corey Curran, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the inaugural FinSurvival Competition at ICAIF 2025. This event brought together outstanding teams who tackled the challenge of time-to-event survival modeling for DeFi lending markets.

Congratulations to the winning teams!

  • First Prize: Team Afinit (Jaehyeok Shin, hyeonwoo Jeon)
  • Second Prize: Team ron0410530 (Rong-Lin Jian)
  • Third Prize: Team A*STAR IHPC & SRM University-AP (Manjil Nepal, Parth Kiran Hanchate, Gao Fei, Wei Qingsong, Renuga Kanagavelu)

We are grateful to all participants for their hard work, and we extend a special thank you to the ICAIF community for their support in making this competition possible. We also sincerely thank our financial supporters, ChaLearn, Ava Labs/Avalanche, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for enabling this effort.

Learn more about FinSurvival Competition →

November 11, 2025
Brave Conversations in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Oshani Seneviratne and Fernando Spadea, along with Anni Rowland-Campbell, organized Brave Conversations in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Learn more about Brave Conversations Colombo →