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Recent updates and announcements from the BRAINS research group.
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.
Oshani Seneviratne is featured in the Faculty Spotlight Q&A in the CRAFT 2025 Annual Report.
Oshani Seneviratne will be giving a keynote address at the Solid Symposium (30 April – 1 May) in London.
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.
Oshani Seneviratne and Fernando Spadea, along with Anni Rowland-Campbell, organized Brave Conversations in Colombo, Sri Lanka.