Hanlon Financial Systems Center

The Hanlon Financial Systems Center at Stevens Institute of Technology

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The data revolution has created seismic impact in every business sector, from life sciences to tourism, but few industries have experienced a technology-driven disruption quite like finance.

An expanding universe of financial and economic data is creating new technology-enabled job classes throughout the industry. Sophisticated algorithms are able to make smart trades faster and more reliably than humans. And new and evolving capabilities in data analysis and visualization are enabling greater agility for savvy investors, while introducing new risks and systemic challenges.

The Hanlon Financial Systems Center at Stevens Institute of Technology is the first facility of its kind in the United States, one that encourages the application of cutting-edge technologies in unique and creative ways to solve complex, systemic financial problems; uncover and exploit new opportunities through statistical analysis and modeling; challenge the conventions surrounding valuation and trading strategy; and manage the risks of interconnected markets.

CNBC 2018 Stock Draft

A team of six Quantitative Finance students in the Student Managed Investment Fund took third place in CNBC's 2018 Stock Draft. The team picked Facebook, Disney and Sage Therapeutics in the three-round draft, which pitted them against celebrity investors, former NFL players and more. Stevens was the only university represented in the competition.

Laura Murphy and Daniel Aversano announce Facebook as the first pick in the 2018 draft.

Madison Pasterchick and Jim Doran select Disney with the team's second-round draft pick.

Peyton Rieser and Madison Bertscha, with mascot Attila, announce Sage Therapeutics as Stevens' final pick in the draft.

Game-changing financial analytics labs

The center is home to two state-of-the-art financial systems labs, each of which contains powerful hardware and leading-edge software tools that replicate the look and feel of the technologies in place at finance companies. These labs challenge students to apply lessons in asset pricing, risk management, portfolio strategy and cybersecurity to real business problems.

Dr. Eleni Gousgounis, in a dark jacket and red blouse, teaches a class before a screen displaying financial data.

Hanlon Financial Systems Lab

The Hanlon Financial Systems Lab places Bloomberg technologies and sophisticated software and data sets in the hands of students, teaching them to embrace evidence-based decision-making methods and challenging them to think about how analytics can create advantages.

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Financial Analytics and Data Visualization

The Hanlon Lab for Financial Analytics and Data Visualization offers the same technology as the Hanlon Lab, plus next-generation collaborative, presentation and visualization capabilities.

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One-of-a-kind educational possibilities

Students and partner companies enjoy incredible benefit from the Hanlon Financial Systems Center. Technology in the labs allows students to think critically about, and apply lessons in, machine learning, data visualization and risk engineering to the kinds of challenges they'll face at work. Partner companies send employees to software boot camps, lectures and workshops to stay current with changing technologies.

A female student points at data on a screen as three other students look on in the Hanlon Lab.

Degree programs

Finance programs at the School of Business leverage the Center and its lab facilities to immerse students in world-class technology.

Degree programs

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Executive education

The Center provides training that teaches employees how to use technology, data and analytics to uncover opportunities and solve problems in finance.

Executive training

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Certificates

The School of Business offers four-course graduate certificates that leverage the high-technology environment of the Center and its lab facilities.

Certificate programs

Creating impact through research

Research at the Hanlon Financial Systems Center spans areas ranging from financial engineering, statistics and econometrics to electrical engineering, artificial intelligence and cognitive computing.

Research overview

Risk

Explores new and evolving techniques to assess, predict and manage risk in digital markets.

Risk research

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Capital Markets

Explores how technology can eliminate costs, redundancies and opportunities for fraud baked into the current financial system.

Capital markets research

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Technology and finance

Discoveries into technology's changing role in trading, portfolio strategy, optimization, regulatory considerations and beyond.

Technology and finance research