AI Advancement Award 2025
The winners of the PLEXUS Artificial Intelligence Award from 2025
The winners of the PLEXUS Advancement Award for
Artificial Intelligence from 2025
The PLEXUS Artificial Intelligence Award
In 2025, PLEXUS Investments offered the “PLEXUS Award for Artificial Intelligence in Finance” for the sixth time. The award was once again endowed with 10,000 Euros, which will benefit the winners’ further research on AI and machine learning in the financial sector.
The Winners 2025
The call for entries for the sixth Advancement Award ended on 31 December 2025. The distinguished jury is now back in action. Over the coming weeks, it will evaluate the submitted master’s theses and dissertations and select the winner(s). The winners will be honoured in May at the sixth AI conference organised by PLEXUS, ‘Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Sector,’ in Liechtenstein.
The Panel of Judges
Christof Kutscher
i.a. Executive Chair of Lancry Natural Capital.
Prof. Walter Farkas
Professor of Quantitative Finance with the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich, and Associate Member of the Department of Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).
Prof. Stefan Mittnik
Professor of Financial Econometrics, until 2020 at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU) and co-founder of Scalable Capital, a digital financial service provider.
The Conditions of Participation
The deadline for submitting research papers was 12/31/2025. Students with their Master’s thesis (in exceptional cases Bachelor’s thesis) and doctoral candidates with their dissertation submitted to a university or university of applied sciences to obtain their respective academic degree were eligible to participate. Read the complete conditions of participation in the linked document.
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