FPGA Based Accelerators for Financial Applications

Dr.-Ing. Christian De Schryver graduated in Information Technology in 2008 and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2014, both from the University in Kaiserslautern, Germany. At this place, he is currently a Post-Doc and Senior Member of the Customized High Performance Computing (CHPC) research team within the Microelectronic Systems Design Research Group headed by Prof. Dr. Norbert Wehn. His research interests are design methodologies for application-tailored heterogeneous execution platforms, hardware accelerators for supercomputing applications (in particular finance and big data processing) and system-level design flows.

10 Computational Challenges in Finance.- From model to application: calibration to market data.- Comparative study of acceleration platforms for Heston's stochastic volatility model.- Towards Automated Benchmarking and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Systems in Finance.- Is High Level Synthesis ready for business? An Option Pricing Case Study.- High-Bandwidth Low-Latency Interfacing with FPGA Accelerators Using PCI Express.- Pricing High-Dimensional American Options on Hybrid CPU/FPGA Systems.- Bringing Flexibility to FPGA Based Pricing Systems.- Exploiting mixed-precision arithmetics in a multilevel Monte Carlo approach on FPGAs.- Accelerating Closed-Form Heston Prices for Calibration.