school of economics peking university-九游会平台

　　from september 13th to 17th, 2022, invited by the school of economics at peking university, serguei maliar, associate professor of the department of economics of santa clara university, opened the summer course "artificial intelligence in economics and finance" (including 6 lectures), covering machine learning basic theory to economics application and solution. this course was funded by peking university's "overseas famous lecturer program". the activity was hosted by li bo, assistant professor of the school of economics at peking university. 50 teachers and students from domestic and foreign academic institutions such as peking university, tsinghua university and indiana university participated in the course.

serguei maliar held online lectures

　　at the beginning of the courses, li bo made an opening remark. he expressed his welcome to serguei maliar and introduced his research direction, the basic information of the students, and the brief situation of the course. then, serguei maliar introduced the course’s topic, syllabus and arrangement.

serguei maliar introduced machine learning

　　in this series of courses, serguei maliar explained the principle and content of supervised learning and further explained the principle and application of unsupervised learning and its role in solving economic models. on this basis, serguei maliar deeply analyzed reinforcement learning. finally, li bo expressed his gratitude to serguei maliar for offering this course and welcomed him to come to china for offline teaching next time. serguei maliar also expressed his great expectation and thanked the students for their active participation in this course.

　　group photo of the courses

　　lecturer profile

　　professor maliar earned his b.s in physics and applied mathematics from moscow institute of physics and technology; his m.a. in economics from central european university (czech republic); his ph.d. in applied mathematics from zaporozhye state university (ukraine); and his ph.d. in economics from the university of pompeu fabra (spain). he is also a visiting associate professor in the department of economics at stanford university and a visiting fellow at the hoover institution. he has taught at the university of alicante, fabre pompeo and the university of chicago (ice project). he also served as director of graduate studies in economics at the university of alicante.