Welcome to Hongik Unviersity's Fintech Lab

by School of Business and Management,
Dept. of Computer Engineering, and
Dept. of Industrial Engineering & Data Science

Hongik's Fintech Lab is the collaborative and interdisciplinary research lab from professors of Finance, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering & Data Science, who are interested in Quantitative Finance and Application of AI, NLP, VR, Blockchain and Data Science to various problems in Finance, such as RPA, Asset Management (Robo Advisory, Quant Investment), High Frequency Trading, DeFi, Credit Scoring, Fraud Detection, etc.

We are composed of 5 professors, Prof. Hyuncheol Hwang,
Prof. Ha Yoon Song, Prof. Jun Park, Prof. Young Yoon, Prof. Chunghun Ha, and graduate/undergrad students working on these fields.

"Banking is necessary, banks are not."
- Bill Gates (1994)


"There are two big opportunities in the future financial industry. One is online banking, where all the financial institutions go online; the other is internet finance, which is purely led by outsiders."
- Jack Ma (2016)

“DeFi has the potential to completely reinvent the world's financial systems, merging the scale and familiarity of the traditional economy with the security, efficiency, and transparency of the public blockchain.”
- Steven Becker


Our Vision:

World-level research and development for finance to be innovative and beneficial for all people with the most advanced technologies