Workshop – Frontiers in Fintech and Quantum Computing 2022
Workshop – Frontiers in Fintech and Quantum Computing 2022
Speakers
- Thorsten KOCH (Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
- Junye HUANG (IBM, Singapore)
- Radha Pyari SANDHIR (IBM, India)
- Wolfgang Karl HÄRDLE (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
- Xinxin FAN (IoTeX, USA)
- Kelvin TAN (DBS, Singapore)
- Stefan LESSMANN (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Thorsten Koch
Professor for Software and Algorithms for Discrete Optimization, Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin
Thorsten Koch
Professor for Software and Algorithms for Discrete Optimization, Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Koch is Professor for Software and Algorithms for Discrete Optimization at TU-Berlin and head of the Applied Algorithmic Intelligence Methods and the Digital Data and Information for Society, Science, and Culture departments at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). He has worked in several areas, especially the planning of infrastructure networks, chip verification, mathematical education and integer optimization.
From 2008-2014 he was the coordinator of the FORNE project, an industry collaboration project regarding gas transportation involving five universities and two research institutes. The project received the 2016 EURO Excellence in Practice Award of the European OR Society. From 2013-2019 he was head of the GasLab and the SynLab within the Research Campus MODAL (Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis Laboratory). The project Optimized Execution of Dispatching conducted together with Germanys largest Gas Transmission System Operator became finalist of the 2020 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award.
Currently, the work is focused on developing decomposition-based parallel methods for solving large-scale block-structured optimization problems. Such problems arise, for example, in data-driven, real-world analysis and planning of sustainable network infrastructures.
Junye Huang
Quantum Developer Advocate, IBM
Junye Huang
Quantum Developer Advocate, IBM
Junye Huang is a Quantum Developer Advocate at IBM. He is part of the IBM Quantum Community Team whose mission is building an open, diverse and inclusive quantum community. He is focusing on promoting quantum education in the Asia Pacific region. He organized the first Qiskit university hackathon in the world (before joining IBM) and is a guest lecturer for quantum computing courses at three Singapore universities (NUS, SMU and SUTD). Junye has given dozens of quantum technical talks and workshops on various topics including quantum finance. He was an invited speaker for SCxSC FinTech Conference 2021 organized Malaysia Securities Commission.
Junye led a team of 40+ to organize IBM Quantum Challenge 2021, an online quantum programming challenge, for celebration of 5th anniversary of IBM Quantum and 40 years of quantum computing. Over 1400 people from 76 countries participated in the event. This event pioneered the reservation of a dedicated quantum system for participants. He received Outstanding Accomplishment (highest level of recognition) from IBM Research for quantum education, together with the team behind Qiskit Global Summer School and Qiskit textbook.
His passion for quantum computers drives him to create educational games for quantum computers such as QPong, a quantum version of Pong which he created at the first Qiskit camp. QPong was subsequently ported to a physical Quantum arcade machine and toured around Europe, including the EU Quantum Flagship Event in Helsinki in October 2019
Radha Pyari Sandhir
Qiskit Advocate & India Quantum Community Manager, IBM
Radha Pyari Sandhir
Qiskit Advocate & India Quantum Community Manager, IBM
Radha Pyari Sandhir is a Qiskit Advocate and the India Quantum Community Manager at IBM Quantum. She's passionate about community growth and outreach, with a particular focus on engaging entry points for non-expert audiences.
Radha frequently combines her love for all things creative with educational endeavors. She has co-created a number of web apps and resources such as the Quantum Bubble Art Generator that generates a visual representation of quantum noise, and the D&D μStarter Kit for D&D players that harbors a quantum dice roller and generates characters. She conceptualized and authored The Photonic Trail: A Quantum Optics Treasure Hunt, a single-player fantasy game for QPlayLearn. She's organized numerous quantum events, including informal social gatherings centered on quantum, and was on the Scientific Board for the Internet Festival's Quantum Game Jam in November 2021.
Wolfgang Karl Härdle
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Wolfgang Karl Härdle
Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Karl Härdle completed his Dr. rer. nat. in Mathematics at Heidelberg University and received his habilitation in Economics at Bonn University. He was the founder and Director of Collaborative Research Center CRC 373 “Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes” (1994 - 2003), Director of CRC 649 “Economic Risk” (2005 - 2016) and also of C.A.S.E. (Center for Applied Statistics and Economics) (2001 - 2014). He is currently heading the Sino-German Graduate School (洪堡大学 + 厦门大学) IRTG1792 on “High dimensional non stationary time series analysis”. He is the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and director of the BRC the joint Blockchain Research Centre with Zurich U.
His current research focuses on modern machine learning techniques, smart data analytics and the crypto currency eco system. He has published more than 40 books and more than 350 papers in top statistical, econometrics and finance journals. He is highly cited, and among the top scientist registered at REPEC and has similar top notch rankings in other scales, such as the Handelsblatt ranking.
He has professional experience in financial engineering, structured product design and credit risk analysis. His recent research extends nonparametric paradigms into machine learning, decision analytics and data science for the digital economy. He is the Editor in Chief of the Springer Journal „Digital Finance“. He supervised more than 60 PhD students and has long-term research relations to research partners in the USA, Singapore, Prague, Warsaw, Paris, Cambridge, Beijing, Xiamen, Taipei among others
Xinxin Fan
Head of Cryptography, IoTeX
Xinxin Fan
Head of Cryptography, IoTeX
Xinxin Fan, Ph.D. is the Head of Cryptography at IoTeX, a Silicon Valley-based technology platform that is applying blockchain to secure and evolve the Internet of Things (IoT). He is responsible for directing the company’s strategy and product roadmaps as well as developing the core technologies and IP portfolio. Before joining IoTeX, he was a senior research engineer of the Security and Privacy Group at Bosch Research Technology Center North America. Dr. Xinxin Fan received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2010. He has published 50+ referred research papers in top-tired journals, conferences, and workshops in the areas of cryptography and information security and is an inventor of 15 patent filings for innovative information security and privacy-enhancing technologies. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) from (ISC)² and a (co-)chair of IEEE P2418.1 and IEEE P2958 standards working groups.
Kelvin Tan
Head of Innovation for Treasury & Markets, DBS
Kelvin Tan
Head of Innovation for Treasury & Markets, DBS
Kelvin is currently the Head of Innovation for Treasury & Markets at DBS since 2018 where he is responsible for advancing a culture of innovation and driving projects involving emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, Quantum Computing, etc.. He was deeply involved in the DBS Digital Exchange & Custody project as well as the initial conceptualization of Partior, the digital currency project in partnership with JP Morgan and Temasek, that were launched in Dec 2020. He also spearheaded the Digital Tokenized Bond project that was launched in May 2021.
Prior to joining DBS, Kelvin was the Head of Fintech & Data at SGX where he had re-architected the data infrastructure to enable low-latency, high-frequency, data capture into a realtime data warehouse enabling realtime data analytics, visualization and AI. He was also leading SGX’s efforts in blockchain and represented SGX on MAS’ Project Ubin on central bank digital currencies, especially on phase 3 focussing on Delivery-vs-Payment.
Kelvin graduated with two bachelor degrees, one in computer systems engineering and one in computer science, followed by a masters in wealth management. He initially started his career as a virtual reality engineer before switching to the financial services industry.
He has a Masters in Knowledge Engineering, as well as a Masters in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Stefan Lessmann
Professor of Information Systems, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Stefan Lessmann
Professor of Information Systems, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Stefan completed his PhD and habilitation at the University of Hamburg in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He then joined the Humboldt-University of Berlin in 2014, where he heads the Chair of Information Systems. He serves as an associate editor for several international journals and department editor of Business and Information System Engineering (BISE). Stefan has secured substantial amounts of research funding and published several papers in leading international journals and conferences (Google Scholar, ResearchGate). His research concerns machine learning and artificial intelligence (MLAI) methodologies and their use cases in managerial decision support. Stefan specializes on MLAI applications in the broad scope of marketing and risk analytics. Stefan actively participates in knowledge transfer and consulting projects with industry partners; from start-up companies to global players and not-for-profit organizations
Registration
Admission is free but all participants must be registered for the workshop.
Organizing Committee:
- Yi-Chun CHEN (National University of Singapore)
- Ying CHEN (National University of Singapore)
- Chao ZHOU (National University of Singapore)
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