Quantitative Finance Summer Camp 2016 New Frontiers in Quantitative Finance 11 August 2016 LKCSB Level 3 Seminar Room 3.9 Programme Schedule Time Programme Speaker 0900hr 0925hr 0930hr Welcome Address Industry Presentation I Breakfast @ Catering Area 3A A Look at Asia Pacific Trading Practices in the Era of Electronic Trading Assistant Professor TEE Chyng Wen SMU Mr Farid MOSLEHI KCG Holdings, Inc 1030hr 1130hr 1300hr 1400hr Industry Presentation II Paper Presentation I Electronic Trading in the FX Market Lunch @ Catering Area 3A Algorithmic Trading and the Market Price of Liquidity Risk Paper Presentation II Enhanced Equity-Credit Modelling for Contingent Convertibles Mr Gaurav MALHOTRA UBS AG Associate Professor Christopher TING SMU Professor KWOK Yue-Kuen HKUST 1500hr 1520hr 1620hr 1630hr Paper Presentation III Tea break @ Catering Area 3A On the Ross Recovery under the Single-Factor Spot Rate Model Closing Remarks End of Session Professor Masaaki KIJIMA TMU Assistant Professor TEE Chyng Wen SMU
Speakers Profile Industry Speakers Mr Farid MOSLEHI Senior Advisor, KCG Holdings, Inc Farid Moslehi is Senior Advisor at KCG Holdings, Inc. Prior to this appointment, Farid was CEO of KCG Asia Pacific responsible for operations in the region. He has wide experience in risk management and trading, gained as the Head of Asia for GETCO from 2012, until the company s merger with Knight Capital Group to form KCG in July 2013. He joined GETCO in 2005 and has served in a variety of capacities, including Chief Risk Officer, trader and team leader in both data services and risk management. Before GETCO, Farid was an independent trader for 6 years. Prior to that, he was a fixed income derivatives trader with Bank One and First Chicago. Earlier in his career he held positions in technology, quantitative research and risk management at Lehman Brothers, CIBC and First Chicago Farid has a B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. currencies. Mr Gaurav MALHOTRA Executive Director & APAC Head of Principal Electronic Trading FX, Rates & Credit, UBS AG Gaurav joined UBS in 2011 where he runs Electronic Principal Trading for Asia Pacific in the FX, Rates & Credit division. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for providing automated pricing to clients through numerous channels and risk management of all flows in the principal electronic trading book. He covers FX & Precious Metals Spot along with US Treasuries. Within FX, the product set consists of G10, EM Deliverable and Scandinavian Prior to UBS, Gaurav worked for 6 years at Barclays Bank in Singapore where he was Head of BARX FX Spot Trading for Asia Pacific Gaurav graduated in 2004 from The University of Auckland, New Zealand with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) specializing in Software Engineering. Academic Speakers Associate Professor Christopher TING Area Coordinator of Quantitative Finance Group, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University Christopher Ting is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Finance at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He served as the founding director of the Master of Science in Quantitative Finance programme and is currently the Area Coordinator of the Quantitative Finance group. Dr Ting earned his Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and Master of Science Degree in Physics from the University of Tokyo, funded by two Japanese Government scholarships that were administered by the Public Service Commission of Singapore.
Thereafter, he earned his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the National University of Singapore whilst working at DSO National Laboratories. During the 2008 2009 financial crisis, he took on the challenge as a professional proprietary trader with a proprietary trading firm. He has published many papers in a wide range of areas and his current research interest is focused on derivatives, quantitative trading, and risk management. Dr Ting is the author of the book entitled An Introduction to Quantitative Finance: A Three-Principle Approach. Professor KWOK Yue-Kuen Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Yue-Kuen Kwok is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He was awarded his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1985. He serves as the Program Director for the Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Economics, and the Master of Science Degree in Financial Mathematics at HKUST. Dr Kwok s research interests concentrate on pricing and risk management of equity and fixed income derivatives. He has authored 2 books: Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives, published with Springer Verlag, and Applied Complex Variables for Scientists and Engineers, published with Cambridge University Press. Additionally, he has supervised 13 PhD students and published more than 100 research papers in leading research journals. Professor Masaaki KIJIMA Financial Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University Masaaki Kijima is a Professor of Financial Engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University. He received his PhD from Simon Business School, University of Rochester in 1986. Since then, he has held multiple professorships with leading economic and mathematical departments such as the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Kyoto University. He is the author of two books entitled Markov Processes for Stochastic Modeling, published in 1997, and Stochastic Processes with Applications to Finance", which was published in 2013, both published with Chapman & Hall, London. Moreover, he has published more than 100 papers in international journals specializing in applied probability and financial engineering. Dr Kijima currently serves as an associate editor at SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics.