Ajim Uddin completed a Ph.D. in Business Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research area is FinTech and the application of machine learning to finance, with a special focus on financial networks. He has applied his research toward the development of a dynamic graph learning framework for asset pricing and incorporating signed networks, i.e., positive and negative connections, in equity pricing models. He is also working on understanding the influence of network connections among decision-makers in the financial decision-making process. This includes designing a network projection model to examine how being connected to more managers or connected to prominent managers influences institutional investors' herding behavior and portfolio performance. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Quantitative Finance, Global Finance Journal and Finance Research Letters. He also received the "Best Contribution to Theory" and "Overall Best Conference Paper" awards at the 51st Annual Conference of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute.

Ph.D. ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ; Business Data Science ; 2022

M.S. ; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville ; Economics and Finance ; 2017

M.B.A. ; Shahjalal University of Science & Technology ; Finance and Banking ; 2016

B.B.A. ; Shahjalal University of Science & Technology ; Finance and Banking ; 2013

https://web.njit.edu/~au76/

FIN 315 - FUND OF CORPORATE FINANCE

BDS 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION & RES

FIN 611 - INTRO TO TOPICS IN FIN TECH

BDS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

FIN 315 - FUND OF CORPORATE FINANCE - HONORS

Dr. Uddin’s teaching interests include Financial Technology (FinTech), Data Mining and Machine Learning for Finance, and Financial Data Analytics.

FinTech, Application of Machine Learning in Asset Pricing, Graph Neural Network

Bhaskar Goswami, Ajim Uddiin. 2025. "Significance of predictors: revisiting stock return predictions using explainable AI." Annals of Operations Research , pp. 1572-9338.

Ajim Uddiin, Xinyuan Tao, Dantong Yu. 2024. "The network factor of equity pricing: a signed graph laplacian approach." Journal of Financial Econometrics .

Ajim Uddiin, Xinyuan Tao, Dantong Yu. 2023. "Attention based dynamic graph neural network for asset pricing." Global Finance Journal , vol. 58 .

Mohammad Abdullah, Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury, Ajim Uddiin, Syed Moudud-Ul-Huq. 2023. "Forecasting Non-Performing Loans Using Machine Learning." Journal of Forecasting , vol. 42 , no. 7 .

Jingyi Gu, Sarvesh Shukla, Junyi Ye, Ajim Uddiin, Guiling Wang. 2023. "Deep Learning Model with VADER Sentiment Score in Stock Price Prediction." SN Business & Economics , vol. 3 , no. 119 .

"DySTAGE: Dynamic Graph Representation Learning for Asset Pricing via Spatio-Temporal Attention and Graph Encodings"
ACM, November, 2024.

"A Fast Non-Linear Coupled Tensor Completion Algorithm for Financial Data Integration and Imputation"
4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance: ICAIF'23, November, 2023.

"A Fast Non-Linear Coupled Tensor Completion Algorithm for Financial Data Integration and Imputation"
4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance: ICAIF'23, November, 2023.

"NMTucker: Non-linear Matryoshka Tucker Decomposition for Financial Time Series Imputation"
ACM, November, 2023.

"The Network of Mutual Funds: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Estimating Mutual Funds Performance"
ACM, November, 2023.

"Core Matrix Regression and Prediction with Regularization"
November, 2022.

South Asian Journal of Business Studies
Editor, Associate Editor , 2024