Case Studies | Machine Learning Market

The case studies highlight some of the real world applications addressed and business solutions found by Pascal consultants.


Letting stones go unturned Wéiqí, Baduk or simply, Go. Over two thousand years old, this challenging game of strategy and tactics has taught warriors, monks and intellectuals to focus, concentrate and plan. But a program is beginning to change our views of what is possible. In computer competitions this multi-armed bandit has stolen first prize more often than any other. It’s MoGo, or Monte Carlo Go.
The mind reading wizard Telepathy was once nothing more than a parlour trick played by illusionists to entertain us. Now something resembling telepathy is becoming a reliable reality. Even if you control every movement of your muscles or flicker of your eyes, you will never hide your brain activity. The magic word is not abracadabra, but Hex-o-Spell!
Financial Prediction Gaining wealth on the stock market based on statistical arbitrage is an area ripe for the application of machine learning and related methods. UCL's clients include large financial organisations that require state of the art prediction methods based on both low to high frequency trading. UCL has developed state of the art prediction methods that track market dynamics which translate into profitable portfolio allocations. Success in this area demands an understanding of the underlying dynamics of the statistics underlying markets, and also when these dynamics changes.