Academic

Dr. Yam Sheung Chi, Phillip
BSc (Actuarial Sc) (HKU), MPhil (HKU), CASM (Dist.) (Cantab, U. Cambridge), D.Phil (U. Oxford)

Position Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Room HJ623, Stanley Ho Building
Email mascpy@polyu.edu.hk
Telephone 2766 6931
Fax 2362 9045

Qualification / Professional Membership:

  • DPhil candidate (under the supervision of Wallis Prof. T. Lyons, FRS, FIMS), Stochastic Analysis group, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford . (Pending). Supported by Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong.
  • Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Math Tripos Part III (Distinction with E. M. Bernett Prize), University of Cambridge . (2003). Supported by Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong.
  • MPhil (nominated for “Best MPhil thesis award 2001”), Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong . (2001).
  • BSc in Actuarial Science (1 st class honors with listing on Dean's honors lists 1997-1998, 1998-1999), Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong (1999).
  • Courses 1 to 4 of Society of Actuaries (SOA) passed in the period 1996 - 1999.
  • Invited as an associate editor of IAEng International Journal of Applied Mathematics.

Research Interest:

Probability theory, Stochastic analysis: Malliavin Calculus and Rough Path theory, Actuarial and Financial Mathematics.

Publications:

  1. (With Hailiang Yang) Does the completeness of a large market depend on traders' views? How GL(Zp) and q-series come to play. To be submitted.
  2. Volume integral over a manifold M as a one-form over a vector bundle of M. To be submitted
  3. Space-filling rough paths and its consequence in geometric integration theory. To be submitted.
  4. (With Terry J. Lyons) Low dimensional topological aspects of signatures of loops: winding and linking numbers. To be submitted.
  5. On existence of control. To be submitted.
  6. (With Terry J. Lyons) On the Green-Gauss theorem and boundaries of a class of Holder domain (2006), JMPA, Vol. 85, No.1, pp 38-53.
  7. (With Hailiang Yang) On valuation of derivative securities: a Lie group analytical approach (2006), Appl. Maths. Vol. 51, No.1, pp. 49-61.