Dr. Stefan Zohren

Professor

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Biography

Stefan Zohren is a Professor at the University of Oxford and a Supernumerary Member at Worcester College. He serves as the Deputy Director at the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His work includes mentoring in the FinTech stream at the Creative Destruction Lab, where he collaborates with industry partners such as NVIDIA, Graphcore, Nokia, and Lockheed Martin. Professor Zohren's research centers on applied machine learning in finance, economics, and natural sciences, with particular interest in deep learning, reinforcement learning, and network approaches, as well as natural language processing (NLP). He has extensive consulting experience leading machine learning projects across various application domains including finance and healthcare. He holds a DPhil in Mathematical Physics from Imperial College. His recent publications explore topics like generative diffusion models in financial simulations, stock market instability using graph auto-encoders, and neural networks integrated with large language models for decision-informed portfolio optimization.

Research Interests

Experience

Supernumerary Member

2020-01-01 — Present

Worcester College • Oxford

Professor

2019-01-01 — Present

University of Oxford • Oxford

Research Associate

2018-01-01 — Present

Oxford Internet Institute • Oxford

Awards

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Turing Fellowship

2022-01-01
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Marie Curie Fellowship

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JSPS Fellowship

Requirements for University of Oxford

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:24
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Politics, International Relations, Economics, History, Law, Philosophy or Sociology
Application Checklist
  • Three academic references
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Statement of Purpose (1,000 words)
  • Two academic essays (2,000 words each)
Specialization Notes

Department of Politics and International Relations - Higher Level English requirement.