Call for Papers
Scope and Objectives
The Special Track: Secure Financial Intelligence (SecureFinAI) invites researchers, academics, and industry professionals to submit original papers on secure financial intelligence with open models. AI has been increasingly developed and applied to various financial tasks, such as automated trading, search, and regulatory compliance. It’s required to ensure these intelligent systems are not only high-performing but also transparent, secure, and reliable. Open models, such as LLaMA, DeepSeek, and Mistral, play a critical role in building transparent and responsible FinAI systems. This Special Track aims to showcase cutting-edge research, foster collaboration, and encourage the development of secure financial intelligence.
The Special Track will explore the future of secure financial intelligence and contribute to innovative solutions for a connected world with special interest in, but not limited to:
- Financial large language models (FinLLMs)
- Reasoning FinLLMs
- Multimodal Financial Foundation Models (MFFMs)
- FinRL: financial reinforcement learning for dynamic decision-making
- Real-time financial data for financial intelligent systems
- Addressing policy instability in FinRL: decision transformer, etc.
- Evaluation and benchmarking suite for FinRL and FinLLMs
- Financial applications and prototypes
- Financial agents (FinAgents): autonomous trading, regulatory compliance, AI tutor, search agent, etc.
- Security and guardrails for FinAI systems
- Privacy for FinAI: federated learning, differential privacy, etc.
- Promoting open models in the finance sector
- Emerging trends: quantum-inspired RL, zero-knowledge proofs, blockchain integration, future research for FinAI.
Submissions
We welcome submissions from the SecureFinAI 2026, and also general submissions, using the IEEE template.
Submission Guidelines:
https://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2026/ids/submission.html
Important Dates:
- Paper submission: March 10th, 2026
- Notification: March 20th, 2026
- Registration: April 1st, 2026
- Camera Ready: April 1st, 2026
Organization Committee
General Chair
- Keyi Wang, Columbia University
- Jiechao Gao, Stanford University
- Xiao-Yang Liu, Columbia University
Program Chair
- Colin Lin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Kaiwen He, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Columbia University
Technical Program Committee
- Darin Shao, John Hopkins University
- Jingyu Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Yupeng Cao, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Yan Wang, Yale University
- Tianlei Zhu, Columbia University
- Chenri Luo, Columbia University
- Junshuo Liu, Columbia University
- Jifeng Li, Columbia University
- Jaisal Patel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Qinchuan Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Chris Ding, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Allan Feng, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Thomas Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Zhiyuan Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Felix Tian, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
