Qualifications 

Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance - Securities Institute of Australia 

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computers) - University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, USA 

Masters of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering - University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, USA 

Masters of Business Administration - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA 

Doctor of Philosophy - Bond University, Australia 

Dr Clarence N.W. Tan is the founder of Bond Wireless, a Queensland-based award-winning
wireless software applications and services company. He is the recipient of the
Queensland government prestigious Entrepreneur in Residence Fellowship for 2010 at Bond
University and the Gold Coast Innovation Centre at Griffith University which enables him
to strengthen the ICT sector in Queensland by assisting private enterprises to work with
the academia in commercializing their technology and getting them investor as well as
export ready. 

Dr Tan has also been the Principal Research Fellow in a AUD2 million joint Queensland
government, Coastalcom, Lifesaving Australia and Griffith University beach safety
monitoring and modeling project in 2009. 

Prior to his academic career, he had worked for a number of multi-national corporations,
including as a Manager of Citibank Foreign Exchange Strategic Positioning and Technical
Trading Unit, a Management Consultant for Xerox Electronic Publishing Center, an
Associate at Citibank Asia Pacific Technology Group in Hong Kong, and an Associate at
Citibank North American Investment Banking in Wall Street. 

He has over 45 academic publications including a book, book chapters and peer-reviewed
papers in the area of soft computing and mobile applications. In addition Dr Tan holds
two patents in mobility technology. 

Book Chapters

Intelligent IS — Artificial Neural Networks in Financial Trading (with Bruce J. Vanstone), Information Technology papers (2005)

From the Introduction:

Soft computing represents that area of computing adapted from the physical sciences....

 

Conference Papers

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Evaluating the Application of Neural Networks and Fundamental Analysis in the Australian Stockmarket (with Bruce Vanstone and Gavin Finnie), Information Technology papers (2005)

This paper evaluates the use of an artificial neural network within a stockmarket trading strategy....

 

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Applying Fundamental Analysis and Neural Networks in the Australian Stockmarket (with Bruce J. Vanstone and Gavin Finnie), Information Technology papers (2004)

This paper demonstrates how Neural Networks may be successfully applied to the problem of security...

 

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Enhancing Security Selection in the Australian Stockmarket using Fundamental Analysis and Neural Networks (with Bruce Vanstone and Gavin Finnie), Information Technology papers (2004)

This paper examines financial trading from the aspect of security selection. In practice, it is...

 

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A Survey of the Application of Soft Computing to Investment and Financial Trading (with Bruce Vanstone), Information Technology papers (2003)

This paper surveys recent literature in the domain of applying Soft Computing to Investment and...