In this course, we invite leading financial firms to offer capstone projects in which students will be working in a group of 3 to 5 to complete a task. The project topics are designed to investigate recent developments with a combination of quantitative skills (the math/stat or machine learning part) and finance. The normal duration of a project is one semester. Project supervisors (namely, practitioner supervisor and course instructor) will meet each project team regularly to provide guidance throughout the course. All project teams will be required to present their work at the end of semester.