Eric Tham

Dr. Eric Tham is an experienced data science and finance professional with more than a decade of experience in the financial industry. He mixes practicum with his personal working experience in the Fintech and data science sectors. He has a passion to groom and train the next generation of data science professionals.

His research interests are at the intersection of behavioural finance and AI/ML, and have been presented at the American Economics Association (AEA/AFA) meetings, Miami Behavioral Finance conference, the European Financial Management Association (EFMA) meetings, the Australasian Banking and Finance conference (ABFC) and the Risk managment conference at NUS. He has won a research grant from the Think Forward Initiative for his research on social media trust.

Research Interests

• AI/ML in Finance, Asset Pricing, Behavioral Finance

Teaching

• Data Science, Natural Language Processing, Fintech, Deep Learning

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) EDHEC Business School (2016 — 2020)
• MS Columbia University in the City of New York (2000 — 2001)
• Master of Science (MS) National University of Singapore
• BEng (HONS) National University of Singapore
• GCE 'A' Levels Raffles Junior College

Awards

• 2017 to 2018 - Think Forward Initiative Research grant.