Fintech for the Common Good Interdisciplinary Lecture Series | School of Public Policy (SPP)

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is hosting a series of interdisciplinary lectures on the rapidly advancing field of financial technology, exploring how Wall Street firms and investors could benefit, efforts to regulate the industry to guard against fraud and abuse, and the potential for unintended outcomes as technology continues to evolve. The Fintech for the Common Good lecture series will feature speakers from the fields of finance, law and computer science to facilitate discussion and research collaborations. The lectures are free and open to the public.

Data science research and application expert Ted Senator, a former program manager with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will discuss the use of artificial intelligence to prevent cyberfraud on Tuesday, April 30 at 4 p.m. in the Commonwealth Honors College events hall. Senator has also held positions at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He is a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

This series is a collaboration among deans, faculty and graduate students from the UMass Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the Isenberg School of Management, and the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.

UMass Amherst can lead in fintech-related research and talent development. We invite faculty members, graduate students, and industry professionals interested in these topics to attend these talks and help drive future research projects. Future outgrowths might include new certificate or degree programs, applied research projects with industry partners, and new applications for technologies developed at UMass Amherst.