IUCRC Phase I RPI: Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT)

该项目建立了推进金融技术研究中心（CRAFT），致力于研究金融科技，即金融与技术的结合。由于计算机科学的进步和计算硬件的实际进步，金融科技行业正在发展，它几乎影响到更广泛经济中的所有其他行业。CRAFT的愿景是将行业合作伙伴、学术研究人员、联邦机构和学生聚集在一起，开展和推进跨学科金融科技研究、创新和劳动力培训，以支持新产品、服务和企业。CRAFT @Rensselaer带来了一系列互补的能力，结合了Rensselaer在计算机科学，数据科学和定量金融方面的成熟优势，并专注于机器学习，人工智能，自然语言处理，分布式账本技术和网络分析方面的具体方法。该中心将支持核心金融服务的创新，如交易、投资、支付、贷款和保险，并在实体经济的重要领域发展创新，如医疗保健、供应链、可持续发展和绿色金融。CRAFT @Rensselaer还将对开发和评估金融技术创新及其应用进行研究，以支持政策和监管需求。CRAFT将通过帮助更好地理解潜在颠覆性技术的好处和风险，对经济产生广泛的影响。这些研究项目将使政策制定者和行业参与者能够更好地了解和管理风险，从而减少意外后果和中断的可能性。由于新技术往往与创新和增长联系在一起，因此CRAFT可能会为更有活力的经济做出贡献。关于教育，这些项目将导致可用于教育和培训的技术和过程。为高中学生提议的讲习班将扩大所有学科的参与。该中心存储库将托管在史蒂文斯图书馆。项目的数据、代码和成果将按照中心数据管理政策在CRAFT服务器上组织和维护至少十年或更长时间。在培训模块和软件包被记录和测试后，它们将通过流行的公共代码托管服务（如GitHub）发布并提供。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project establishes the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) devoted to research on fintech, the conjunction of finance and technology. The fintech industry is growing as a result of advances in computer science coupled with practical advances in computing hardware, and it affects almost all other industries in the broader economy. The vision of CRAFT is to bring together industry partners, academic researchers, federal agencies, and students to conduct and advance interdisciplinary fintech research, innovation, and workforce training in support of new products, services and ventures.CRAFT @Rensselaer brings a range of complementary capabilities combining Rensselaer’s well-established strengths in computer science, data sciences, and quantitative finance, and focusing on specific methodological thrusts in machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed ledger technologies, and network analytics. The center will support innovations in core financial services, such as, trading, investing, payments, lending, and insurance, and develop innovations in important segments of the real economy, such as, health care, supply chains, sustainability & green finance. CRAFT @Rensselaer will also conduct research on developing and evaluating financial technologies innovations and their applications to support policy and regulatory needs.CRAFT will have a broad impact on the economy by helping to better understand the benefits and risks of potentially disruptive technologies. The research projects will allow policy makers and industry participants to better understand and manage risks, thus reducing the possibility of unintended consequences and disruptions. Since new technologies are often associated with innovation and growth, CRAFT may contribute to a more vibrant economy. With respect to education, the projects will lead to technologies and processes that can be used in education and training. The proposed workshops for high school students will broaden participation in all disciplines.The center repository will be hosted at Stevens library. The data, code, and the results of projects will be well organized and maintained on the CRAFT server according to the Center data management policy for at least ten years or longer. After the training modules and software packages are documented and tested, they will be released and made available through popular public code hosting services such as GitHub.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.