Overview
He is a Chartered Mathematician, has worked in University Departments of Mathematics, Probability and Statistics, Economics and Finance & Management Science; and he has held faculty positions in Universities in Australia (UNSW), Canada (Alberta) and Vietnam (HCMC). His research interests are varied in the areas of Mathematical Economics/Finance, Operational Research and Statistics; and he has published in major international journals in those areas. He was Professor of Finance and Management Science at the International University of Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, and he is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Wales, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É, UK. Previously he was Professor of Management Science in the BusinessSchool of the University of Wales, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É, Reader in Economics and Professorial Fellow of the University of Salford, Associate Professor of Management Science in the BusinessSchool of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Lecturer in Economics and Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. His research has involved the Utility of Gambling/Finance, Bookmaking, Statistical Auditing, Sports Economics, Property Valuation under Asymmetric Loss and Stochastic Optimisation. His publications include articles in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, JASA, Risk and Uncertainty, Naval Research Logistics, The American Statistician, The Indian Journal of Statistics, Sankhya, The Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, The Journal of Quality Technology, The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Geneva Papers in Risk and Insurance Theory, Bulletin of Economic Research, European Journal of Finance, The Manchester School, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Economica, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of the Operational Research Society, The Mathematical Scientist, Materials and Society, IMA Journal of Mathematics Applied in Business and Industry, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Information Systems and Operational Research, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, The Economics of Gambling, Applied Financial Letters, Advances in Econometrics, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, The Middle East Business and Economic Review, the Review of Law and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Crime. He has supervised numerous PhD and Masters students, presented papers at international conferences at both home and abroad, and acted as a journal referee and as an external assessor for higher degrees and readership/professorships.
Recent courses: Financial Modelling, Business Statistics, Quantitative Methods in Finance, Â Optimisation, Management Science, Quantitative Methods for Business, Financial Engineering.
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Professor Emeritus, University of Wales, ÑÇÖÞÉ«°É, Wales, UK. Â
Professor of Finance & Management Science, VietnamNationalUniversity,