With downturns in markets, fraud is often revealed (think crypto recently). This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in uncovering fraud, data science, and learning about research. Opportunity for those intellectually curious students possibly interested in later pursuing a PHD. Current topics of fraud examination include: new frauds, PPP fraud, and crypto-currencies. Professor Griffin is Chaired McCombs professor and nationally recognized researcher. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/this-texas-finance-p…) His research focuses on investigating and using big data, econometrics, statistics, machine learning, and other data tools to examine and often uncover questionable financial practices to shed light on the financial sector.
Past Research assistants are a highly select group that have gone on to prestigious PHD programs and top finance jobs. Graduate Students can also apply for a higher level. Must be able to work at least 6-10 hours per week, can be much more in the summer. Please write a brief email to PHD candidate, Mr. Mahajan (prateek.mahajan@mccombs.utexas.edu) as to how you meet the requirements and what you hope to gain from the experience along with your resume. Also, cc Professor Griffin.
Looking for exceptional graduate and undergraduate students to assist in academic research mostly related to uncovering Financial Fraud. It is preferable to have at least some programming experience, especially experience with scraping and Natural Language Processing (NLP). For undergraduate students, we prefer Juniors (or Sophomores) that are honors students and with a high GPA.
Graduate Students can also apply for a higher level.
Must be extremely talented, self-motivated, diligent, and with a quantitative background. Open to various backgrounds and majors.
Ongoing projects, possibly several semesters
-Data collection -Reading and editing research papers -Literature review and description -Data analysis -Text Analysis
