Teaching

I have taught PhD students in Milwaukee, graduate and executive cohorts at NUS, and practitioners in industry programs across Singapore.

Now

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

As a tenure-track assistant professor I designed and taught courses at every level. College of Engineering and Applied Science Teaching Excellence Award.

  • MS and PhD

    Decision Making Under Uncertainty

    Markov chains, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, game theory and Nash equilibria

  • Undergraduate, MS, and PhD

    Operations Research II

    Random variables, Markov chain modeling, Markov decision processes, queueing

  • MS and PhD

    Engineering Statistical Analysis

    Hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, linear, piecewise, and logistic regression in Excel and R

  • Graduate

    Stochastic Optimization

    Optimization under uncertainty

  • Undergraduate

    Statistics for Engineers

    Probability, distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals

  • Undergraduate

    Operations Analysis

    Inventory control, scheduling, forecasting, queueing

Industry programs

  • Singapore FinTech Association, FinTech Talent Program

    Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in FinTech, a module taught to three cohorts.

  • Industry training

    Supervised and unsupervised machine learning, text analytics, predictive analytics, and Watson Analytics for practitioners.

  • Experfy

    Analytics for the Internet of Things, an online course.

Guest lectures

Full speaking programme

  • National University of Singapore
  • Singapore Management University
  • IIT Kharagpur, ISI Kolkata, and IIM Calcutta, inaugural address for the PG Diploma in Business Analytics
  • University of South Florida, Del and Beth Kimbler Lecture Series
  • Korean Actuarial Society

Lectures online

Recorded from my university courses. Free on YouTube.

  1. Introduction to Markov Decision Processes
  2. Solving Markov Decision Processes using Discounted Reward Value Iteration
  3. Probability Mass Functions
  4. Cumulative Distribution Functions
  5. Expected Value and Variance of Random Variables
  6. Discrete Probability Distributions
  7. Continuous Probability Distributions: the Exponential Distribution
  8. Basics of Hypothesis Testing
  9. Hypothesis Testing, Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
  10. Examples of Type 1 and Type 2 Errors and the Power of a Test
  11. A 7-Step Procedure for Hypothesis Testing
  12. Hypothesis Testing Procedure, with an Example