Speakers
Keynote Speaker I
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Prof. Jerome Yen
University of Macau, Macau
Prof. Yen
currently a Distinguished Professor in the
Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at the
University of Macau (UM). He obtained his Ph.D.
in Systems Engineering and MIS from the
University of Arizona. He used to hold
appointments in the Department of Finance and
Department of Mathematics at HKUST as adjunct
professor as an honorary professor in the Dept
of EEE at HKU. Prof. Yen is a well-established
researcher and practitioner in the finance and
banking community. He has published more than
seventy journal papers in respectable journals
and five books in China Financial Markets, Algo
Trading and High Frequency Trading, as well as
Pricing of Structured Products and Options
Trading. His research has now focused on using
hardware accelerators, like FPGA, GPU, and
RSIC-V, to design platforms to improve the
efficiency and accuracy of the financial
computation.
Prof. Yen was the Deputy Chief Risk Officer at
Cathay Financial Holdings (CFH) from 2005 to
2007 and Director of the Internet Finance
Division of Hong Kong Applied Science and
Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). He also
provided advisory/consulting services to leading
financial institutions, for example, Societe
Generale, Hang Seng Bank, AIA, Bank of East Asia
(BEA), Essences Securities in China, Great-wall
Invesco, SinoPac, and China Construction Bank
(CCB) in risk management, exotic options and
structured products pricing, as well as building
platform to support quick development of mutual
funds.
Keynote Speaker II
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Prof. Tokuro Matsuo
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology,
Japan
Dr. Tokuro Matsuo
is a full professor at Advanced Institute of
Industrial Technology since 2012. He received
the doctor degree of engineering from Dept. of
Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of
Technology in 2006. He is an invited professor
at University of Nevada, Jas Vegas, USA since
2016; a guest professor at Bina Nusantara
University, Indonesia since 2015; a research
project professor of Collective Intelligence
Research Center at Nagoya Institute of
Technology, Japan since 2015; a research fellow
of SEITI in Central Michigan University, USA
since 2010; and an executive director of
International Institute of Applied Informatics
since 2011. He was a visiting researcher at
University of California at Irvine in 2010-2011;
was a research fellow at Shanghai University
between 2010 to 2013; and was a research project
professor of Green Computing Research Center at
Nagoya Institute of Technology between 2011 to
2014. His current research interests include
electronic commerce and business, service
science and marketing, business management,
artificial intelligence, material informatics,
tourism informatics, convention administration
research, and incentive design on e-services.
Some of his researches are presented in the top
international conferences on AAAI, IEEE CEC,
AAMAS, and WWW. He chaired a lot of
international conferences including IEEE/ACIS
SNPD 2009, 2012 and 2014, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2010
and 2013, IEEE IWEA 2007-2012, ACAN 2005-2012,
and AAI 2012-2016. He gave over 70 keynotes and
invited talk at international conferences,
symposia, and seminars. He also received over 40
awards and research grants from research
foundations, company and Government. He is also
commissioned as Japan Conference Ambassador,
Kumamoto City MICE Ambassador, and Adviser of
Information Promotion of Japan.
