Takehiro Takayanagi (D1 at the time of the award) , Department of Technology Management for Innovation, received Excellence Research Award at GPIF Finance Awards for Students

On 21st March 2024, Takehiro Takayanagi (D1 at the time of the award) , Izumi Laboratory, Department of Technology Management for Innovation, received Excellence Research Award at GPIF Finance Awards for Students.

GPIF Finance Awards for Students

The GPIF Finance Awards for Students are designed to provide students and student groups conducting research in the field of pension fund management and related areas with an opportunity to present their research, interact with each other to deepen understanding, and to recognize and award those whose research is deemed valuable. The aim is to widely disseminate the content of the recognized research and encourage further in-depth study in the field.

About awarded research

When applying recommendation system insights to financial markets, there are various domain-specific challenges, such as the dynamic changes in the characteristics of the items being recommended and the significance of the cold start problem for users with limited transaction history. This study proposes a recommendation system tailored to the financial domain that faces these challenges. The proposed model achieved higher accuracy than existing methods in predicting investor behavior tasks. Finally, the study summarized the remaining challenges in applying recommendation systems to financial markets and discussed future research directions.