Associate Professor (Reader) in Machine Learning
School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
The Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Alan Turing Institute | Bayes Centre | Gen AI Lab
School of Mathematics, Gran Sasso Science Institute
email: f dot tudisco at ed.ac.uk
Huge congratulations to PhD students Kevin Zhang and Denis Zorba for winning first place at the ACM ICAIF 2025 Cryptocurrency Forecasting Competition, a flagship international challenge in AI for Finance, under team name “8k3”! They defeated approximately 130 competitors and 740 submitted models.
Their winning approach demonstrates the power of neural oscillators as architectures for time series forecasting. They successfully turned our recent research paper on GNN neural oscillators into a top-performing cryptocurrency forecasting model.
They received praise for their “advanced approaches and innovative solutions for cryptocurrency forecasting” and have presented their work orally at the ICAIF 2025 Award Ceremony on November 16, 2025, at the Sheraton Towers Singapore.
👉 Check out the paper: Stuart-Landau Oscillatory Graph Neural Network
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