NEW FACES @ RMI

New Staff

Wang Dongxu joined RMI’s CRI Team as a Research Analyst on 15 February 2019. Dongxu (Celeste) graduated from NUS Information Systems in 2016 and has previously worked at Garena as an IT Product Manager. She loves traveling, gym training, reading books, and watching Japanese comics.

On 18 March 2019, Chien Yu-Hung joined RMI as a Research Analyst with the CRI Team. Yu-Hung graduated from National Taiwan University with a Double Degree in Finance and Mathematics. He was previously an intern with the RMI CRI team.

Michael Polim joined RMI as a Specialist Associate, starting 13 May 2019. Michael graduated from Temasek Polytechnic in 2015 and has previously worked as network technician with a side of development work. In his free time he likes to swim, read up on interesting topics, current affairs, and memes on the internet.

Distinguished Visitor

Prof. David Yao visited NUS from 5 to 10 May 2019 as part of the NUS Finance & Risk Management Cluster's Interdisciplinary Speaker Series. Prof. Yao is the Piyasombatkul Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, where he is the Founding Chair of the Financial and Business Analytics Center at Columbia Data Science Institute, and more recently, Co-Director of the Columbia Fintech, AI and Business Analytics (FABULYS) Initiative. His research and teaching interests are in applied probability and stochastic systems, focusing on resource control and risk management issues. His honors and awards include the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Franz Edelman Award from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from IBM Research, and Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. He is an IEEE Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He currently serves on the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

On 6 May 2019, Prof. Yao met RMI's faculty members and spent an interactive afternoon with selected MFE students. Read more on our WeChat official account.