Teaching
I have taught PhD students in Milwaukee, graduate and executive cohorts at NUS, and practitioners in industry programs across Singapore.
Now
Adjunct Lecturer, since March 2022
NUS Institute of Systems Science
AI in Financial Services and Responsible AI for graduate and executive cohorts.
Mentor and industry speaker
NUS Master of Science in Business Analytics
Mentoring students, and in 2025 the opening industry seminar for the incoming cohort.
InsurTech mentor
Working with insurance technology startups on data and AI.
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.
Analytics for the Internet of Things, an online course.
Guest lectures
- 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.
- Introduction to Markov Decision Processes
- Solving Markov Decision Processes using Discounted Reward Value Iteration
- Probability Mass Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
- Expected Value and Variance of Random Variables
- Discrete Probability Distributions
- Continuous Probability Distributions: the Exponential Distribution
- Basics of Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis Testing, Type 1 and Type 2 Errors
- Examples of Type 1 and Type 2 Errors and the Power of a Test
- A 7-Step Procedure for Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis Testing Procedure, with an Example