Edward Tsang is a

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

professor at the

University of Essex The University of Essex is a public university, public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass university, plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the an ...

. He holds a first degree in

Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

(major in Finance) from the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university an ...

(1977), and an MSc and PhD in

from the

(1983 and 1987). Prior to his PhD studies, he served for five years in various positions in the commercial sector in Hong Kong. Edward Tsang is the Director (and co-founder) o
Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents
(CCFEA) a
University of Essex
CCFEA is an interdisciplinary research centre, which applies artificial intelligence methods to problems in finance and economics. Edward Tsang is the author o

the first book to define the scope of the field. He is also the co-author o

(with Hassan Rashidi) an
Evolutionary Applications for Financial Prediction: Classification Methods to Gather Patterns Using Genetic Programming
(with Alma Garcia Almanza). Edward Tsang founded th
Computation Finance and Economics Technical Committee
in

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

’
Computational Intelligence Society
in 2004, and chaired it until the end of 2005. Edward Tsang specializes in business application of

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

. His research interests include

applications,

computational finance Computational finance is a branch of applied computer science that deals with problems of practical interest in finance.Rüdiger U. Seydel, '' tp://nozdr.ru/biblio/kolxo3/F/FN/Seydel%20R.U.%20Tools%20for%20Computational%20Finance%20(4ed.,%20Spring ...

constraint satisfaction In artificial intelligence and operations research, constraint satisfaction is the process of finding a solution through a set of constraints that impose conditions that the variables must satisfy. A solution is therefore a set of values for th ...

, evolutionary computation, an
heuristic search
He has given consultation to

GEC Marconi Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of General Electric Company (GEC). It was demerged from GEC and bought by British Aerospace (BAe) on 30 November 1999 to form BAE Systems. GEC then ren ...

British Telecom BT Group plc (trade name, trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is th ...

, the

Commonwealth Secretariat The Commonwealth Secretariat is the main intergovernmental agency and central institution of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is responsible for facilitating co-operation between members; organising meetings, including the Commonwealth Heads o ...

and other organizations.

External links

Edward Tsang
home page

Academic Press, 1993,

and Tsang, E.P.K.

VDM Verlag Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publi ...

, 2010,
Garcia Almanza, A.
and Tsang, E.P.K.
Evolutionary Applications for Financial Prediction: Classification Methods to Gather Patterns Using Genetic Programming

, 2011,
Centre for Computational Finance and Economics (CCFEA)
a
University of Essex

Computational Intelligence Centre (CIC)
a
University of Essex
*IEE
Computational Finance and Economics TC (CFETC)
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British computer scientists Academics of the University of Essex Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Alumni of the University of Essex British people of Chinese descent {{UK-academic-bio-stub