Expertise at Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top research-intensive universities, ranked 4th in the UK for research power (Times Higher Education, Overall Ranking of Institutions), with 83% of our research activity classified as world leading or internationally excellent in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.

Our ethos of ‘research without boundaries’ ensures that interdisciplinary research is at our core. Our outstanding science, arts, humanities, social sciences and clinical researchers readily work together to deliver solutions to the great global challenges of the 21st century.

Research interests cover multiple disciplines and areas – amongst those:

AI
Banking
Big data
Blockchain
Capital market anomalies
Cloud computing
Computer security
Corporate governance
Corporate pension risk analysis
Credit risk
Crypto currencies
Cryptography
Databases
Data quality
Data flows and real-time streaming
Data security & privacy
Design informatics

Econometrics of financial markets
Ethics
Financial innovation
Financial regulation
Human-Computer Interaction
Information security
Innovative entrepreneurship
Integration and exchange
Machine learning
Modelling
Natural language processing
Numerical analysis
Probabilistic modelling
Psychology of credit behaviour
Software security
Statistics
Systemic risk