John A.

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 - 2017
      Professional 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 - 2002
      Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute Pure & Applied Mathematics

      Summer Semester Program

    • RMIT University

      1982 - 1986
      Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering
    • University of Adelaide

      1998 - 1999
      Computational and Applied Mathematics

      Special 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 - 2002
      Graduate Certificate in Science Mathematics

      - applied mathematics in finance- applied mathematics in biology epidemiology

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      2017 - 2017
      Professional 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 - now
      Director, AI and Digital Strategy

      Director 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 - now
      Managing Director

      20-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.ai
      Jan 2018
    • Structuring Machine Learning Projects

      Deeplearning.ai
      Oct 2018
    • Deep Learning Specialization

      Deeplearning.ai
      Jan 2018
    • FMI1 Finance Mandarin Certificate (level 1)

      Finance Mandarin
      Mar 2021
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    • Convolutional Neural Networks

      Deeplearning.ai
      Nov 2018
    • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

      Deeplearning.ai
      Sept 2018
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    • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

      Deeplearning.ai
      Sept 2018
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    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

      Columbia University in the City of New York
      Feb 2017
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