天美传媒

Senior Lecturer in Financial Technology

Dr Azeez Oyedele is an Oracle Certified Professional Java Standard Edition 6 Programmer (OCP-JP 6) and a reviewer for

• Safer Communities
• Applied Economics Letters (Routledge Taylor& Francis Group)
• Information Technology and People
• Applied Economics Journal
• International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Qualifications

• PhD in Finance & Econometrics (with Computation)
• MSc in Quantitative Finance
• BSc (Hons) in International Finance
• Oracle Certified Professional Java Standard Edition 6 Programmer (OCP-JP 6)

Executive Programmes

• 鈥淟ean Thinking鈥�, The Lean Six Sigma Company
• 鈥淒igital Transformation: From AI and IoT to Cloud, Blockchain, and Cybersecurity鈥�, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Professional Education
• 鈥淔inTech Opportunities: Taking A Strategic Approach鈥�, Imperial College Business School Executive Education

Teaching Expertise

• Econometrics (BSc)
• Statistics (BSc)
• Financial Market: Theory & Practice (BSc)
• Corporate Finance (BSc & MSc)
• Finance for Managers (MSc & MBA)
• Financial Markets, Portfolio Management & Investment (MSc)
• Big Data and Machine Learning (BSc & MSc)
• Accounting & Finance (BSc & MSc)
• Python Programming for Finance (BSc)

Research Expertise

Azeez is interested in collaboration and to supervise prospective PhD students in the following research areas:

• Financial Econometrics
• Finance and Commodities Derivatives
• Corporate Finance; Equity Research and Valuations
• Financial Risk & Investment Portfolio Management
• AI, Big Data, IoT (Internet of Things) & Machine Learning
• FinTech, AgricTech & RegTech
• Economics cost-benefit analysis
• Forecasting-Based Financing and Carbon Emissions

Projects

Industry: AI-based Process For Automating Document Intelligence
(Research)

Project Title: Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change Using Drone-Based Machines and AI-enabled Digital Twin For Forecast-based Financing System: A PRISMA Review of Literature and Expert Mapping Exercise

Total Value: 拢3,228; Funding Agency: 天美传媒 Business & Management Research Institute

Project Title: Capacity Development in Africa: Present and Future

Total Value: 拢3,550; Funding Agencies: UWS Graduate School & Vice Principal; Research Office, UWS School of Engineering and Computing, UWS International Centre

Partner: Kashmir Store Scotland Limited

Academic Excellence in FinTech鈥� as an Award of Recognition to FinTech research by Reputation Poll International during the Reputable Banks & FinTech Awards 2022, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Publications

• (2024) 鈥淏ig Data Innovation and Implementation in Projects Teams: Towards a SEM Approach to Conflict Prevention鈥�, Information Technology and People (with Owolabi, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Alaka, H. A., Olawale, O. A., Aju, O. O., Akanbi, L. A., and Ganiyu, S. A.,)
• (2023) 鈥淧erformance comparison of deep learning and boosted trees for cryptocurrency closing price prediction鈥�, Expert Systems With Applications鈥�, (with Ajayi, A. O., Oyedele, L. O., Bello, S. A., and Jimoh, K. O.,)
• (2018), 鈥淔orecasting OPEC oil price: a comparison of parametric stochastic models鈥�, (with Nwafor, C. N.), European Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 10, No. 10, Pp. 49 鈥� 60
• (2017), 鈥淐ritical factors for insolvency prediction: towards a theoretical model for the construction industry鈥� (with Alaka, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Owolabi, H. A., Akinade, O. O., Bilal, M., and Ajayi, S. O.), International Journal of Construction Management, Vol. 17, Issue 1, Pp. 25 鈥� 49
• (2017), 鈥淪imulation and hedging oil price with geometric Brownian motion and single-step binomial price model鈥� (with Nwafor, C. N.), European Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 9, No. 9, Pp. 68 鈥� 81

Contact Details

E: Azeez.Oyedele@beds.ac.uk