Bezirgen Veliyev is a Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. He has obtained his PhD in 2012 from the University of Vienna. He is a research fellow at Aarhus Center for Econometrics and Danish Finance Institute.
Bezirgen's main research interests are within financial econometrics, machine learning, microeconometrics, and quantitative finance. He has published in top field journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Financial Economics.
Bezirgen currently teaches Machine Learning for Finance, Forecasting with Machine Learning, and Economic Forecasting. In the past, he has taught various other courses including Advanced Financial Econometrics, Fixed Income Analysis, Causal Inference, and Introduction to Empirical Economics.