AI Lab

Quantum Economics AI Lab

Research at the intersection of economics, artificial intelligence, and quantum-inspired mathematical formalism.

Core Insight

Price is not a fixed value.

Before a transaction occurs, market prices exist as a probability distribution.

A trade acts as a measurement collapsing uncertainty into an observed price.

P(price)
Pre-tradeDistribution
MeasurementCollapse
Post-tradeObserved Price
Technical Capabilities
01

Probabilistic Inference

Bayesian and variational inference engines for real-time estimation of latent economic states from heterogeneous data streams.

02

Deep Sequence Models

Transformer and state-space architectures trained on multi-decade macro-financial panel data for regime classification and forecasting.

03

Natural Language Processing

Large-scale semantic extraction from central bank communications, earnings calls, and economic news to quantify textual policy signals.

04

Causal AI

Structural causal models and counterfactual inference methods for policy evaluation and intervention analysis.

05

Reinforcement Learning

Multi-agent RL environments simulating market interaction, enabling discovery of emergent equilibria under bounded rationality.

06

Graph Neural Networks

Network-based learning over financial interconnectedness graphs for systemic risk propagation modeling.

Collaborate

We collaborate with institutions and technical teams working at the intersection of economics, artificial intelligence, and financial systems.

Our work spans theoretical modeling, data-driven research, and applied financial analysis.

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Opportunities

We work with students interested in economic modeling, artificial intelligence, and financial systems.

01Research internships for undergraduate students
02Master's dissertation supervision and research collaboration
03PhD-level research projects and academic collaboration

We primarily work with students based in Zurich, while also supporting a limited number of students globally each year. Outstanding students may continue working with us as research fellows.

Our research environment is closely connected to the Zurich academic ecosystem.

Trajectories

Students who have worked with us, in collaboration with SciEcon, have gone on to:

Xinyu TianDuke University · Baidu
Tianyu WuNorthwestern University · TikTok
Jiasheng ZhuYale University
Yixuan LiNYU · Google · ByteDance
William ZhaoPrinceton University
Lewis TianCornell University · Bank of America
Zesen ZhuangDuke University
···and many more
Mentorship

We also support external PhD researchers working on related topics.

Ye YuanPhD candidate, Technical University of Munich (TUM)