Frédéric Abergel is Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Mathematics Applied to Systems and Director, BNP Paribas Chair of Quantitative Finance, École Centrale Paris, France. His research interests are financial markets, modelling of derivatives, and empirical properties of financial data. Since 2008 Professor Abergel has been a member of the organizing and scientific committees of the annual Financial Risks International Forum, Paris and he is also organizer of the annual econophysics conference EP-KOL, Kolkata. He is managing editor of the journal Quantitative Finance.
Hideaki Aoyama is a Professor in the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan. His research interests are theoretical physics, high-energy physics, mathematical physics, and econophysics. He is a Lifetime Member of both the American Physical Society and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Professor Aoyama is Scientific Chief Advisor to Credit Risk Database (Tokyo) and Principal Advisor
