A warm welcome to Mr Wenyu Gu, who joins us this month to begin his PhD studies, supervised by Prof Dave Cliff and Dr Wei Wei. Wenyu is a recent graduate of our own MSc Financial Technology with Data Science, University of Bristol, UK, where he spent the year as Student Rep. Wenyu’s PhD is funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) - University of Bristol (UoB) PhD Scholarships Programme, and his research will explore agent-based simulation modelling and AI-methods for automated trading.