FinTech Collaborative

pexels-photo-908284The WPI FinTech Collaborative is an interdisciplinary partnership of faculty, students, and industry sponsors focused on creating a more cohesive academic and institutional strategy for the creation, implementation, and commercialization of innovative Financial Technology (“FinTech”).

The Collaborative synthesizes the work of a network of experts across disciplines to solve challenges in FinTech.

business-innovation-money-icon-40218WHY PARTNER WITH WPI?

WPI has a long history of thought leadership at the intersection of finance and technology. We solve real-world FinTech challenges through project-based learning, applied interdisciplinary expertise, and collaboration in the financial and technology sectors.

WPI is the first and currently the only Academic Institution in the country to offer a Full Stack Fintech Program with Majors in Undergraduate, Graduate, and PhD. See the press release of this huge milestone. 

  • Fintech Majors
  • Highly engaged faculty and students.
  • Recognized pioneer in project-based learning and truly innovative research.
  • Global presence with initiatives in FinTech and other disciplines on every continent.
  • Active participant in FinTech ecosystems in Massachusetts, New York, RI, and more
  • One of the original members of the Mass Fintech Hub in Jan 2020. https://massfintechhub.com/
  • Over 150-year history of academic rigor linking practice and theory.
  • Peer-leading capacity to solve real-world challenges creatively, quickly and nimbly in collaboration with our industry partners.
  • International distinction in the interdisciplinary application of business, technology, math, and data science for complex problem-solving.
  • History of connecting companies to leading edge talent through extensive career services and project-based learning initiatives.

man-coffee-cup-penFINTECH “Facts, Figures, and Information”

Now, next, and beyond: Analysis of the FinTech Ecosystem in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – October 2020

KPMG Reassessment of the Fintech Industry in Massachusetts – November 2023

Mass FinTech Hub Website

 

startup-photosFINTECH AND WPI PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

WPI is recognized globally for its project-based curriculum, which places faculty-advised student teams with a variety of sponsoring organizations on every continent in the world.

Two of WPI’s longest running and most highly regarded project initiatives work at the intersection of finance, data, mathematics, and technology, and they are actively engaged in the WPI FinTech Collaborative:

The Wall Street/FinTech Project Center organizes undergraduate and graduate project-based learning initiatives in FinTech for WPI students and faculty in partnership with financial and technology industry leaders and innovators like Angelo, Gordon & Co., Vestigo Ventures, BNP Paribas, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

CIMS also organizes various FinTech-related project initiatives, including the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics. Started in 1998 and funded by the National Science Foundation, it is the first mathematics REU program in the United States that exclusively involve students in real-world projects sponsored by corporate partners, including (for example) State Street Corporation.

pexels-photo-256520WPI FINTECH COLLABORATIVE FACULTY

Various WPI faculty from multiple programs and departments throughout the University participate in the WPI FinTech Collaborative (e.g., The Business School, Mathematical Sciences, Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Cybersecurity).

They bring professional experience, multi-disciplinary expertise, extensive research, and enthusiasm and dedication to WPI students to our FinTech projects and other related initiatives.

Learn more about some of our faculty partners.

Picture of WPI Project Center building.

The current Project Center building on the campus of WPI in Worcester, MA was built in 1902 to serve as a commercial and educational iron foundry where students learned to case machine parts from molten metal. It was later converted into a high-tech forge shop that produced many of the intricately designed components Robert Goddard used in his liquid fueled rocket experiments. Today the building serves as the home to the Career Development Center and the Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division, which oversees student helps manage more than 50 WPI project centers around the world.

WPI FINTECH PROJECT CENTER CONTACTS

Rob Sarnie | Professor of Practice of Finance/FinTech/MIS (The Business School) 

Marcel Blais | Professor of Teaching (Mathematical Sciences/Data Science)

Wilson Wong | Associate Teaching Professor (Computer Science)