Kan Chen

Education Qualifications

• PhD in Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, September 1988
• BSc in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, August 1983

Academic Experience

• Professor (practice track), Risk Management Institute and Department of Mathematics, November 2019 to Present
• Deputy Director (industry), Risk Management Institute, November 2019 to Present
• Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Computational Science/Department of Physics, National University of Singapore (NUS), January 1998 to March 2006
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics/Department of Computational Science, NUS, July 1994 to July 1998
• Lecturer, Department of Physics, NUS, June 1992 to June 1994
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada, September 1990 to May 1992
• Research Associate in Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, New York, US, October 1988 to August 1990
• Acting Head, Deputy Head, Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), January 2001 to December 2001; January 2004 to December 2005
• Deputy Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS, July 2000 to July 2001

Industry Experience

• Executive Director, Capital Market Investment, CreditEase, Beijing, June 2018 to July 2019
• Portfolio Manager, Capstone Investment Advisors, New York, May 2015 to March 2018
• Portfolio Manager, WorldQuant, New York, April 2013 to January 2015
• Executive Director, Prop. Trading Desk, Global Equity, JP Morgan, New York, April 2006 to February 2013
• Managed Quantitative Principal Strategy (QPS) Group, Group Started at Bear Stearns (later taken over by JPMorgan in 2008), October 2011 to February 2013