Professor David Luenberger, Program Co-Director
Professor Luenberger received his BS from the California Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD from Stanford University. He has made numerous contributions in systems control, economics, optimization and financial engineering. He has published six textbooks in various fields, including systems theory, optimization, investment, and information science. His book ¡§Investment Science¡¨ is now a standard text book in the field of financial engineering. The book has been translated in many languages, including Chinese. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has served as the President of the Society of Economic Dynamics and Control from 1987 to 1988 and the Technical Assistant to the Director, U.S. Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President, Washington DC from 1971-1972. He has worked a consultant to many companies, including Westinghouse, Stanford Research Institute; Systems Control, Inc.; Optimization Technology, Inc.; and Citicorp. He is a member of the Econometric Society, Society for Economic Dynamics and Control, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Institute for Operations Research, and INFORMS.
 
 
  Professor Edison Tse, Program Co-Director
Professor Tse received his BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Director of the Asia Center in Stanford¡¦s Department of Management Science and Engineering, which has the charter of developing executive training programs and establishing research affiliations with Asian enterprises with a special focus in Greater China: China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He received the prestigious Donald Eckman Award in 1973 from the American Automatic Control Council in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of Automatic Control. He co-founded and has served as a co-editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has published over 150 papers on his research activities. He co-founded Advanced Decision System which was later acquired by Booz Allen and Hamilton in 1991. Since March 2003, he has taught EMBA programs in several Chinese Universities on the topic ¡§Dynamic Corporate Strategy in Uncertain Business Environment¡¨. Through the Asia Center, he developed an Executive Certificate Program jointly with the Enterprise Research Institute of Development Research Center of the State Council of PRC. This certificate program is specially designed for top executives in Chinese enterprises. In 2006, Tse developed a customized Policy Analysis Program at Stanford University for top Chinese government officials and was appointed as an outside Board Director by a Chinese fund management company. In the last three years, he has consulted with Chinese private enterprises to help them in corporate restructuring and implementation of a breakthrough strategy that can bring the enterprise into the next phase
 
 
Professor James Primbs
Professor Primbs received his PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from California Institute of Technology in 1999 for work in the area of receding horizon control. Following that, he was a post-doctoral researcher for two years focusing on financial engineering. In 2001 he joined the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford where he is an award-winning teacher of courses including Investment Science and Advanced Topics in Financial Engineering. His research involves developing control theory, especially in the area of receding horizon control, oriented toward applications in financial engineering. His numerous publications have appeared in journals such as Quantitative Finance, Applied Math Finance, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and others. At Stanford, he serves on the steering committee for the master's degree program in financial mathematics. He has co-organized international workshops on financial engineering, and teaches a one-day short course on Finance for Control Systems Engineers.
 

Professor Kay Giesecke
Professor Giesecke is an Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a faculty member of Stanford's Financial Mathematics Program. Kay's research and teaching address the quantitative modeling of financial risk, in particular credit risk. His research has been funded by grants from JP Morgan, American Express and Moody's Corporation. Kay has served as a consultant to financial institutions and the European Commission. Prior to joining Stanford in 2005, he taught financial engineering at Cornell University's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. Kay holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Economics and a PhD in Economics from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

 

Dr. Simon Qingxuan Meng
Dr. Simon Meng obtained his PhD in finance from Stanford University. He was a PhD candidate and research fellow in Management Science at Toronto University, and received an MS in Computer Science from Tsinghua University. He received the ¡§Outstanding Academic Achievement Award¡¨ (1996) and ¡§Honorary Alumni Award¡¨ (2003) from Stanford and won the ¡§Award for Major Contributions¡¨ from the American Association of Chinese Business Educators. After his graduation from Stanford University, Dr. Meng taught at Pennsylvania State University, Peking University and Zhejiang University, and is now a professor of finance and director of the research center for financial innovation at Zhejiang University. He also works as a visiting professor of a few other leading universities in China and is a research fellow at Stanford University. He served as the advisor to the Development Bank of China and PICC. He has consulted the China State Council, Bank of China, ICBC and ABC. He is a founding member of China¡¦s EMBA program, and initiated the CFA training program in China. Since 2000 he has been actively involved in training activities for the executives in China¡¦s banking, securities and mutual fund industries. His academic memberships include the American Economic Association and American Finance Association. His research interests include: investment management, corporate finance and asset pricing. The courses he has taught include: dynamic financial decisions under uncertainty, financial innovations, risk management, corporate restructuring and capital market strategies. He published more than 20 academic papers; some of them are widely cited in SSCI and SCI.