An Introduction to Quantitative Finance (ePub)

Dr Christopher Ting is an associate professor of Quantitative Finance Practice at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He serves as the area coordinator (department head) for Quantitative Finance, and he is also the founding director of SMU's Master of Science in Quantitative Finance (MQF) Program jointly offered by the Cass Business School.

He earned his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering and master degree in experimental physics (biophysics) from the University of Tokyo on two Japanese Government scholarships administered by the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Singapore. Upon returning from overseas study and having served the full-time National Service as an infantry officer, he was assigned by the PSC to work as a research scientist at the DSO National Laboratories. While working, and having published four research papers, he earned his PhD in theoretical physics from the National University of Singapore.

Dr Ting rose to the rank of laboratory head and he had managed over 40 high-caliber research scientists and engineers in DSO. In 1999, he was conferred the title of Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Moreover, Dr Ting was awarded the Defence Technology Award (Team) twice and he holds a US patent in natural language processing.

In 2009, Dr Ting became a proprietary trader with a futures trading company, Promisedland (Simex Trader) Pte Ltd. He also applied quantitative finance methods to develop strategies for trading index futures subsequently.

As a result of his experience in conducting research and development in many fields as required by DSO and SMU, as well as his proprietary trading experience, he has published many papers in diverse disciplines of Physics, Computer Science, Finance, and Quantitative Finance. In addition, he has the experience of providing consultancy to the Singapore Exchange and May Bank (Singapore), among others.

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