
John A.
Director, AI and Digital Strategy

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About me
Leadership in AI and Digital Strategy, GenAI Solutions, ESG Focus, with Pilot Licenses, Sailing Captain, Ultra-Marathon & Enduro, Fluent in Finance Mandarin 北京普通话/香港廣東話
Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
2017 - 2017Professional Development Artificial Intelligence 93%Fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and apply them to the design and implementation of intelligent agents that solve real-world AI problems, including problems in:> adversarial search, games, > machine learning, > logic agents, > NLP natural language processing, > constraint satisfaction, and reinforcement learning.

University of Melbourne
2002 - 2002Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Pure & Applied MathematicsSummer Semester Program

RMIT University
1982 - 1986Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering
University of Adelaide
1998 - 1999Computational and Applied MathematicsSpecial Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM)- QCD Quantum Chromodynamics Visualisations, under Professor Derek Leinweber.(as featured in Prof. Frank Wilczek's 2004 Nobel Prize Lecture)Study units:- computational physics

The University of Queensland
2002 - 2002Graduate Certificate in Science Mathematics- applied mathematics in finance- applied mathematics in biology epidemiology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017 - 2017Professional Development Data Science 95%Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions. > unstructured data, dimension reduction, spectral clustering;> regression with high-dimension data, causal inference;> classification, deep learning;> recommendation systems;> networks and graph models;> predictive models for temporal data
Experience

Finance Mandarin
Dec 2017 - nowDirector, AI and Digital StrategyDirector of Operations & application of AI to accelerate client servicesManaging cross-functional teams and strategy analysts- data mining - Market Intelligence- Finance Mandarin Index FMI - in-house staff skills benchmark- natural language processing algorithm- recommendation engine

Finance English
Nov 2018 - nowManaging Director20-year experience in Cross Team Leadership & Executive Coaching & Communication 1. Develop a Learning Management System for Finance English with AI Teachers2. Conduct English Interviews & Assessment Matrix for Bank, Insurance, Asset Management3. Coach decision-makers in Presentation topics: Sustainability, Green Finance, ESG, Risk Management4. Corporate clients from UBS, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, BOCI, Swire, Citi, Morgan Stanley
Licenses & Certifications

Sequence Models
Deeplearning.aiJan 2018
Structuring Machine Learning Projects
Deeplearning.aiOct 2018
Deep Learning Specialization
Deeplearning.aiJan 2018- View certificate

FMI1 Finance Mandarin Certificate (level 1)
Finance MandarinMar 2021 
Convolutional Neural Networks
Deeplearning.aiNov 2018- View certificate

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
Deeplearning.aiSept 2018 - View certificate

Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Deeplearning.aiSept 2018 - View certificate

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Columbia University in the City of New YorkFeb 2017
Languages
- enEnglish
- chChinese mandarin
- chChinese cantonese
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