A warm welcome to Mr Yunhua Pei, who joins us this month to begin his PhD studies, supervised by Dr John Cartlidge and Dr Jin Zheng. Yunhua has an MSc in Data Sciecne from University of Sheffield, and he joins us from China CITIC Bank, where he has worked as a quantitative trading development engineer for one year. Yunhua’s research will exlpore deep learning approaches for financial market forecasting.