Chak Wong is a Managing Director within J P Morgan’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence, responsible for the Time Series & Reinforcement Learning group. Chak is also Professor of Science Practice in the Mathematics department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to JPMorgan, Chak worked in Goldman Sachs’ trading rate and FX division as well as at Morgan Stanley in the credit and EM group in London. He also ran UBS’ non-vanilla trading for Asia, IBD structuring for Barclays Asia, FI and Sovereign Sales for Société Générale, head of quant fund and member of the board for Ping An Asset Management.
He served as a full-time professor at the Business School and Professor of Fintech in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as a lecturer in the Journalism department of the Baptist University. Chak earned a PhD in Economics from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.