Case Studies | Machine Learning Market

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


The Desktop Doctor Hundreds of years of medical experience. An infinite patience and the ability to take every symptom into account. Precise and logical, up-to-date, and never short on ideas. All just casually sitting on your doctor’s desk. It may not have much of a bedside manner, but then its job is not to meet patients.
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.
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.