Dean, School of Business and Public Administration , International University of East Africa,

Kampala, Uganda (January 2017 till now )

Financial forecasting systems consultant:  expert in developing, researching and  

applying economic and financial forecasting models;  fundamental and technical analysis 

using artificial intelligence  ;  survey of new techniques and software in data mining applied

to finance ; risk  adjusted return optimization, position sizing and risk management; development

of a new investment performance criterion ; development of an international equity  scanning

and selection systems, portfolio strategies research including long term international  equity

momentum strategies;; international macroeconomic trends analysis ; Triasima Portfolio

Management  (3.5 Billions CAN under management )  Montreal, (September 2013 till Now)

Economic and technology consultant : survey of  cloud services,  brokerage , trading ,

pricing and competitive positioning; survey of cloud services platforms specification and

operation ; survey of  automated negotiation systems, survey of peer-to-peer trading and

sharing platforms ;development of high tech equity portfolio forecasting and trading systems;

Osswave Canada (Osswave is an active research and training member of TM-Forum )

 (August 2014 till 2016 ) 

Visiting adjunct professor  : social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, Chinese psychology and

psychopathology;  G-MEO Study Abroad and Concordia University Chicago – Sichuan University

Cultural Exchange Program  , American Center for Study Abroad , Sichuan University, Chengdu

( September 2015 to December 2015 )   

 Lecturer: economics of financial markets for undergraduate students  , academic research and 

writing techniques for graduate students  ;  Southwestern University of Finance and Economics ,

Chengdu, (September 2014 till January 2015 )

Lecturer : microeconomics , macroeconomics , corporate finance ;  Webster University , Cha-Am,

Thailand  ( January 2014 till June 2014 ) 

Lecturer, microeconomics and competitive analysis , macroeconomics , introduction to corporate

law ;  Nanchang Hangkong Aerospace University, Nanchang,  ( October 2013 to January 2014)  

Professor: corporate governance and leadership in China and HK , services marketing and operation

Management in USA and  China , doing business in China ; design and marketing strategy global

executive business program for Chinese investors; MBA China Certificate  international marketing ;

Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Continuing Education, Shanghai

(September 2011 to July 2013)

Senior lecturer: economics of China, micro-macroeconomics, introduction to management,

organizational behavior and human resource management, strategic  management and

 business models , strategic simulation games for knowledge integration ; new curriculum

and courses design , bachelor thesis guidance and evaluation, guidance of students’

business models competition ;  Donghua University CIP  bachelor of business, 

Shanghai  (September 2011 to July 2013)) 

Lecturer : business strategy , management decision making  ; Shanghai International Studies

 University HND-BTEC bachelor of business, Shanghai  (March 2011 to July 2011) 

Lecturer,  IFY-NCUK business studies and economics ; Kaplan Education , Shanghai-

Suzhou ( October 2010 to February 2011) 

Lecturer: Cambridge CIE AS business studies and economics ; Nanshan Bilingual 

School , Shenzhen ( September 2009 to July 2010)  

Associate Professor: business environment analysis and forecasting, corporate strategy

in the Chinese automobile industry using Harvard style case study ; Royal Roads University

MBA ( Canada )  , Shenzhen, ( September 2009 and June  2010) 

Lecturer : marketing and human resource management ;  full immersion corporate 

training program designer ;  Delter International Business Institute,  Liuzhou , ( April 

2009 to July 2009)  

Assistant professor : international macroeconomic relations  of China ( including the edition of

a 4 volumes  1000 pages readings pack ); CIEE-East China Normal University  , Shanghai  ,

( March 2008 to June 2008 )

Lecturer : corporate finance and valuation for the international mba ;  East China University 

of Science and Technology, Shanghai, ( March 2008 to July 2008  )

Lecturer : undergraduate business English ,  marketing (500 students ); School of

Economics and International  Trade and School of Business  , East China University of

Science and Technology  ( September 2007 to July 2008 )  

Lecturer : corporate finance, information technology and business research methods, 

Fuzhou-Hertsfordshire University, Fuzhou ( March 2007 to July 2007) 

Lecturer: project Management, e-commerce;  Shanghai Normal University , College of 

Electronic Engineering, Shanghai , (September 2006 to January 2007)  

Lecturer: financial English for undergraduate students; business strategy and  

financial institutions for post-graduate students); Northwest University of Agriculture

and Forestry School of Business and Economics , Yangling, (2005-2006)  

Advisor : e-marketing strategies for the Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Zone, 

Yangling Government ,  Shaanxi , China , 2006  

Lecturer: American literature, business strategy , business writing,  Zhaoqing University , 

Zhaoqing, (September 2004 to July 2005)  

Lecturer:  international trade and business English;  School of Vocational  Education , 

Xidian University, Xian  (September 2003 to July 2004)   

Principal researcher on international corporate governance, shareholders’ rights  and 

activism,  securities regulations,  for the Association de Protection des Investisseurs et 

Épargnants du Québec,  ( Quebec  Investors  Protection Association , a non-profit 

organization that defends the interests of small investors)  in collaboration with the 

School of Accounting of  University of Quebec at Montreal ,  (2001-2003)  

Lecturer- Tutor :artificial intelligence  applied to finance and business ,  University of Quebec

 Business School at Montreal , master of finance-cfa  and mba  programs ( 1995-1997 ) 

Data mining researcher : evaluation of the efficiency of genetic variables transformation and-

selection and of  cascade correlation  neural networks for the classification of high

performance breeders  for premium grade milk production using phenotype traits ,

with Professor Jacques Ajenstat, project supervisor ; University of Quebec Business School

at Montreal MIS Department  and Quebec Ministry of Agriculture  Institute of Agrifood

Technology , (1997)

Independent economic consultant for major Canadian financial organizations including 

the Caisse de Dépôt et de Placements du Québec , (Quebec public pension fund, one the

biggest pension fund in Canada) ,  CDP Capital’s international investment allocation division.

Research economic data banks, interest rate forecasting, and north american market

conditions along with monitoring  and developing techniques and indicators for global

asset allocation (1996 to 2003) 

External economic consultant and institutional client representative for Chabot Page , a 

portfolio management firm. Establishment of relations with institutional clients for the

launch of  several Canadian hedge funds (2001 to 2003)  

Institutional marketing executive and economist : developed the Canadian market

for IDC Portfolio Management, a U.S. firm that offers  institutional investors buy-side

quantitative north American equity and  fixed-income research  Achieved high market

penetration with blue-chip clients such  as Investors, State Street, Royal Bank Portfolio

Management  and ING following a re-design of IDC’s services and products for the

Canadian market.  Introduction of a market neutral hedge fund to Canadian financial  

institutions .  Introduced the USGS Leading Metals Indicators as a new forecasting tool 

to predict business cycles ( 1999 to 2001)

Developer of a number of innovative systems for real time technical analysis of Canadian 

stocks and options. Carried out the mathematical research behind a risk management 

software program used by an independent option market maker firm at the Montreal 

Futures Exchange; (1996 to 2003)  

Software designer and beta tester : contributed to the design and testing of Neuroshell Trader,

one of the first real time AI-based forecasting and trading software on the international market

using financial criteria optimization and position sizing techniques , Ward Systems  Group,

Maryland , USA , (1996 to 2003)  

External economic consultant for Synergy Asset Management of Toronto . Experimental 

development of a system of tactical asset allocations of North American sector based on 

artificial intelligence (1996 to 1998)    

External consultant in business development, professional training  and the design 

of  financial models for the Laboratoire d’Informatique des Systèmes  Adaptifs (LISA)

of the School of Computer Science and Operation Research of Université de Montréal ,

under the direction of Professor Yoshua Bengio,   Canada Research  Chair in Statistical

Learning Algorithms , internationally well known for his work on recurrent and deep

learning networks  Provided in-house training, in collaboration  with LISA, on the use

of artificial intelligence in the tactical asset allocation to staff of Montrusco and  TAL

Investment Management  ; Lecturer-trainer  and seminar  organizer (Montreal CFA

Association meetings ,  Precarn, World Bank Treasury  Department , London Business School ):

Department of  Computer Science  and Operation  Research –Laboratory  of Adaptive

Systems – University of Montreal , (1995 to 1996) 

External economic consultant for the Canadian equity division of Bolton Tremblay Portfolio

Management :responsible for a project to implement new specifications for forecasting North  

American interest rates. Helped develop the first Canadian system for assets tactical allocation 

based on the use of artificial intelligence  ( using macro, industrial,  valuation, technical factors)

with André Chabot, principal manager and the Montreal  Hautes Etudes Commerciales Business

 School (1990 to 1996)  

Financial and commodities futures marketing executive , analyst and trainer; institutional

promotion of the Canadian bond future contract ; study on agricultural income  stabilization

strategies using derivative products for the  Quebec Ministry of Agriculture; hedging gas

 procurement risks using derivatives products for Metropolitain Gas Corporation; 

Refco Futures Canada, Montreal (1990 to 1991 )

Retail Stock Broker , Canadian and US  Stocks and Options Markets ; Deragon-Langlois

Securities, Montreal (1986-1988)

Economic Research Assistant  : advanced multidisciplary research on the foundations  of  the new

international space law ,  financed  by the  Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council  ;

Center for Research on Air and Space Law,  McGill University, Montreal, 1981 to 1986

 Economist :  feasibility study for a  Canadian geostationary satellite pay-tv network ;

taxonomic analysis  of new cable tv  interactive services ;  study done for the

Federal Ministry of Communications and the Canadian Cable TV Association;

Tamec Inc , Montreal 1980

Academic Activities and Research

Organization of , and lecture on psychiatrization of normal life  at  the seminar on comparative

patients ‘ rights and treatment procedures  in American and Chinese mental health care systems , 

at the American Center for Study Abroad of Sichuan University with the participation of  the School

of Psychiatry  , Chengdu, December 2015

: 

Organization of the Chinese Economy and Society workshop of the international 

conference of Research and Regulation , an international conference on institutional 

political economy and sociological economics  , Université Paris Diderot,  June 2015. 

Participants included distinguished professors from Tsinghua University (China) , University of 

London SOAS-Renmin University (China) , Northwest University (China) ,  South West University 

of Finance and Economics (China) ,  Shimane University (Japan) , Lancaster University (UK) , 

University of Massachusetts at Amherst  (USA), NUI Galway (Ireland), Institut des Amériques

(France) , HEC Paris (France) , Université  Panthéon Sorbonne (France), École des Hautes

Études en Sciences Sociales (France) , Universite Pierre Didetot Ladyss (France) , CNRS-CASS Ecole

Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris-Est (France)

Lecture presentation on the political economy of the crisis  of Chinese development model using

the theoretical framework of the French School of Regulation , School of Marxist Studies , South West

 University of Finance and Economics , March 2015

Field study on the Shanghai real estate industry top executives investment decision making process

and financing strategies with Professor Robert Boyer ,co- founder of the French School of Regulation

(Institute of Americas Paris )  and Professor Natacha Aveline Dubach (University Paris I-Panthéon

Sorbonne , January 2014

Organization of a conference on social innovation systems  with Professor Robert Boyer,

(Institut des Ameriques Paris) ,co-founder of the French School of Regulation , Honorary Fellow  of the

 Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) , at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences  ,

Beijing , January 2014

Organization of a conference on the global economic crisis  with Professor Robert Boyer,

(Institut des Ameriques Paris) ,co-founder of the French School of Regulation , Honorary Fellow

 of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) , at the Shanghai University of International

Business and Economics   , Shanghai  , January 2014

Organization of a conference on Chinese economic development model with Professor Michel Aglietta ,

 (HEC Paris-CEPII ) founder of the French School of Regulation  , Chairman of the Cour des Comptes of the

 French Ministry of Finance , and Guo Bai (HEC Paris)  at Dongua University Center for International

Program , Shanghai July 2013

Organization of a confererence on the global financial crisis and its implications for emerging

countries  with Professor Michel Aglietta , (HEC Paris-CEPII )  at Fudan University Institute for Advanced

Social Sciences  , Shanghai , July 2013

Organization of a conference on European sovereign and banking crisis with Professor Michel Aglietta ,

 (HEC Paris-CEPII )  at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences  , Shanghai , July 2013

Edition of  the “International Macroeconomic Relations  of China” , 4 volumes 1000 pages collected readings 

pack, CIEE-East China Normal University, Shanghai, March 2008 

Member of the Organization Committee of the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Economists 

Society  at  Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry , Yangling , Shaanxi , June 

2006 

Y. Bengio. Y. Bengio. Sylvain Gauthier , André Chabot , Francois Gingras  , Training a Neural

Network with a Financial Criterion Rather than a Prediction  Criterion. In Y.S. Abu-Mostafa

A.S. Weigend and A.-P.N. Refenes,editors, Proceedings of  the Fourth International Conference

on Neural Networks in the Capital Markets (NNCM- 96), pages 433-443. World Scientific, 1997.   

Y. Bengio. Sylvain Gauthier , André Chabot , François Gingras   Using a Financial Training

 Criterion Rather than a Prediction Criterion. Technical  Report #1019, Département d'informatique

 et recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, February 1996.  

Seminar organizer and speaker : neural networks applied to finance and business,  in collaboration

with the  Montreal CFA Association  ; Precarn Canada (Canadian collaborative intelligent Information

 and communications technology research organization)  ,the World Bank Treasury Department ,

 the London Business School and the Department of  Computer Science  and Operational Research ,

Laboratory of Adaptive Systems LISA , University of Montreal , 1995

 Report  on the Strategic, Economic, Legal, Technological and Institutional Consequences

of International Arms Race in Space, on the International  Military and Civilian Space Industry ,

presented at the United Nations International Space Law Conference  and published in the Annals

of Space Law , Center for Research on Air and Space Law,  McGill University, Montreal, 1981 

Dean, School of Business and Public Administration , International University of East Africa,

Kampala, Uganda (January 2017 till now )

Financial forecasting systems consultant:  expert in developing, researching and  

applying economic and financial forecasting models;  fundamental and technical analysis 

using artificial intelligence  ;  survey of new techniques and software in data mining applied

to finance ; risk  adjusted return optimization, position sizing and risk management; development

of a new investment performance criterion ; development of an international equity  scanning

and selection systems, portfolio strategies research including long term international  equity

momentum strategies;; international macroeconomic trends analysis ; Triasima Portfolio

Management  (3.5 Billions CAN under management )  Montreal, (September 2013 till Now)

Economic and technology consultant : survey of  cloud services,  brokerage , trading ,

pricing and competitive positioning; survey of cloud services platforms specification and

operation ; survey of  automated negotiation systems, survey of peer-to-peer trading and

sharing platforms ;development of high tech equity portfolio forecasting and trading systems;

Osswave Canada (Osswave is an active research and training member of TM-Forum )

 (August 2014 till 2016 ) 

Visiting adjunct professor  : social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, Chinese psychology and

psychopathology;  G-MEO Study Abroad and Concordia University Chicago – Sichuan University

Cultural Exchange Program  , American Center for Study Abroad , Sichuan University, Chengdu

( September 2015 to December 2015 )   

 Lecturer: economics of financial markets for undergraduate students  , academic research and 

writing techniques for graduate students  ;  Southwestern University of Finance and Economics ,

Chengdu, (September 2014 till January 2015 )

Lecturer : microeconomics , macroeconomics , corporate finance ;  Webster University , Cha-Am,

Thailand  ( January 2014 till June 2014 ) 

Lecturer, microeconomics and competitive analysis , macroeconomics , introduction to corporate

law ;  Nanchang Hangkong Aerospace University, Nanchang,  ( October 2013 to January 2014)  

Professor: corporate governance and leadership in China and HK , services marketing and operation

Management in USA and  China , doing business in China ; design and marketing strategy global

executive business program for Chinese investors; MBA China Certificate  international marketing ;

Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Continuing Education, Shanghai

(September 2011 to July 2013)

Senior lecturer: economics of China, micro-macroeconomics, introduction to management,

organizational behavior and human resource management, strategic  management and

 business models , strategic simulation games for knowledge integration ; new curriculum

and courses design , bachelor thesis guidance and evaluation, guidance of students’

business models competition ;  Donghua University CIP  bachelor of business, 

Shanghai  (September 2011 to July 2013)) 

Lecturer : business strategy , management decision making  ; Shanghai International Studies

 University HND-BTEC bachelor of business, Shanghai  (March 2011 to July 2011) 

Lecturer,  IFY-NCUK business studies and economics ; Kaplan Education , Shanghai-

Suzhou ( October 2010 to February 2011) 

Lecturer: Cambridge CIE AS business studies and economics ; Nanshan Bilingual 

School , Shenzhen ( September 2009 to July 2010)  

Associate Professor: business environment analysis and forecasting, corporate strategy

in the Chinese automobile industry using Harvard style case study ; Royal Roads University

MBA ( Canada )  , Shenzhen, ( September 2009 and June  2010) 

Lecturer : marketing and human resource management ;  full immersion corporate 

training program designer ;  Delter International Business Institute,  Liuzhou , ( April 

2009 to July 2009)  

Assistant professor : international macroeconomic relations  of China ( including the edition of

a 4 volumes  1000 pages readings pack ); CIEE-East China Normal University  , Shanghai  ,

( March 2008 to June 2008 )

Lecturer : corporate finance and valuation for the international mba ;  East China University 

of Science and Technology, Shanghai, ( March 2008 to July 2008  )

Lecturer : undergraduate business English ,  marketing (500 students ); School of

Economics and International  Trade and School of Business  , East China University of

Science and Technology  ( September 2007 to July 2008 )  

Lecturer : corporate finance, information technology and business research methods, 

Fuzhou-Hertsfordshire University, Fuzhou ( March 2007 to July 2007) 

Lecturer: project Management, e-commerce;  Shanghai Normal University , College of 

Electronic Engineering, Shanghai , (September 2006 to January 2007)  

Lecturer: financial English for undergraduate students; business strategy and  

financial institutions for post-graduate students); Northwest University of Agriculture

and Forestry School of Business and Economics , Yangling, (2005-2006)  

Advisor : e-marketing strategies for the Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Zone, 

Yangling Government ,  Shaanxi , China , 2006  

Lecturer: American literature, business strategy , business writing,  Zhaoqing University , 

Zhaoqing, (September 2004 to July 2005)  

Lecturer:  international trade and business English;  School of Vocational  Education , 

Xidian University, Xian  (September 2003 to July 2004)   

Principal researcher on international corporate governance, shareholders’ rights  and 

activism,  securities regulations,  for the Association de Protection des Investisseurs et 

Épargnants du Québec,  ( Quebec  Investors  Protection Association , a non-profit 

organization that defends the interests of small investors)  in collaboration with the 

School of Accounting of  University of Quebec at Montreal ,  (2001-2003)  

Lecturer- Tutor :artificial intelligence  applied to finance and business ,  University of Quebec

 Business School at Montreal , master of finance-cfa  and mba  programs ( 1995-1997 ) 

Data mining researcher : evaluation of the efficiency of genetic variables transformation and-

selection and of  cascade correlation  neural networks for the classification of high

performance breeders  for premium grade milk production using phenotype traits ,

with Professor Jacques Ajenstat, project supervisor ; University of Quebec Business School

at Montreal MIS Department  and Quebec Ministry of Agriculture  Institute of Agrifood

Technology , (1997)

Independent economic consultant for major Canadian financial organizations including 

the Caisse de Dépôt et de Placements du Québec , (Quebec public pension fund, one the

biggest pension fund in Canada) ,  CDP Capital’s international investment allocation division.

Research economic data banks, interest rate forecasting, and north american market

conditions along with monitoring  and developing techniques and indicators for global

asset allocation (1996 to 2003) 

External economic consultant and institutional client representative for Chabot Page , a 

portfolio management firm. Establishment of relations with institutional clients for the

launch of  several Canadian hedge funds (2001 to 2003)  

Institutional marketing executive and economist : developed the Canadian market

for IDC Portfolio Management, a U.S. firm that offers  institutional investors buy-side

quantitative north American equity and  fixed-income research  Achieved high market

penetration with blue-chip clients such  as Investors, State Street, Royal Bank Portfolio

Management  and ING following a re-design of IDC’s services and products for the

Canadian market.  Introduction of a market neutral hedge fund to Canadian financial  

institutions .  Introduced the USGS Leading Metals Indicators as a new forecasting tool 

to predict business cycles ( 1999 to 2001)

Developer of a number of innovative systems for real time technical analysis of Canadian 

stocks and options. Carried out the mathematical research behind a risk management 

software program used by an independent option market maker firm at the Montreal 

Futures Exchange; (1996 to 2003)  

Software designer and beta tester : contributed to the design and testing of Neuroshell Trader,

one of the first real time AI-based forecasting and trading software on the international market

using financial criteria optimization and position sizing techniques , Ward Systems  Group,

Maryland , USA , (1996 to 2003)  

External economic consultant for Synergy Asset Management of Toronto . Experimental 

development of a system of tactical asset allocations of North American sector based on 

artificial intelligence (1996 to 1998)    

External consultant in business development, professional training  and the design 

of  financial models for the Laboratoire d’Informatique des Systèmes  Adaptifs (LISA)

of the School of Computer Science and Operation Research of Université de Montréal ,

under the direction of Professor Yoshua Bengio,   Canada Research  Chair in Statistical

Learning Algorithms , internationally well known for his work on recurrent and deep

learning networks  Provided in-house training, in collaboration  with LISA, on the use

of artificial intelligence in the tactical asset allocation to staff of Montrusco and  TAL

Investment Management  ; Lecturer-trainer  and seminar  organizer (Montreal CFA

Association meetings ,  Precarn, World Bank Treasury  Department , London Business School ):

Department of  Computer Science  and Operation  Research –Laboratory  of Adaptive

Systems – University of Montreal , (1995 to 1996) 

External economic consultant for the Canadian equity division of Bolton Tremblay Portfolio

Management :responsible for a project to implement new specifications for forecasting North  

American interest rates. Helped develop the first Canadian system for assets tactical allocation 

based on the use of artificial intelligence  ( using macro, industrial,  valuation, technical factors)

with André Chabot, principal manager and the Montreal  Hautes Etudes Commerciales Business

 School (1990 to 1996)  

Financial and commodities futures marketing executive , analyst and trainer; institutional

promotion of the Canadian bond future contract ; study on agricultural income  stabilization

strategies using derivative products for the  Quebec Ministry of Agriculture; hedging gas

 procurement risks using derivatives products for Metropolitain Gas Corporation; 

Refco Futures Canada, Montreal (1990 to 1991 )

Retail Stock Broker , Canadian and US  Stocks and Options Markets ; Deragon-Langlois

Securities, Montreal (1986-1988)

Economic Research Assistant  : advanced multidisciplary research on the foundations  of  the new

international space law ,  financed  by the  Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council  ;

Center for Research on Air and Space Law,  McGill University, Montreal, 1981 to 1986

 Economist :  feasibility study for a  Canadian geostationary satellite pay-tv network ;

taxonomic analysis  of new cable tv  interactive services ;  study done for the

Federal Ministry of Communications and the Canadian Cable TV Association;

Tamec Inc , Montreal 1980

Academic Activities and Research

Organization of , and lecture on psychiatrization of normal life  at  the seminar on comparative

patients ‘ rights and treatment procedures  in American and Chinese mental health care systems , 

at the American Center for Study Abroad of Sichuan University with the participation of  the School

of Psychiatry  , Chengdu, December 2015

: 

Organization of the Chinese Economy and Society workshop of the international 

conference of Research and Regulation , an international conference on institutional 

political economy and sociological economics  , Université Paris Diderot,  June 2015. 

Participants included distinguished professors from Tsinghua University (China) , University of 

London SOAS-Renmin University (China) , Northwest University (China) ,  South West University 

of Finance and Economics (China) ,  Shimane University (Japan) , Lancaster University (UK) , 

University of Massachusetts at Amherst  (USA), NUI Galway (Ireland), Institut des Amériques

(France) , HEC Paris (France) , Université  Panthéon Sorbonne (France), École des Hautes

Études en Sciences Sociales (France) , Universite Pierre Didetot Ladyss (France) , CNRS-CASS Ecole

Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), Ecole d’Urbanisme de Paris-Est (France)

Lecture presentation on the political economy of the crisis  of Chinese development model using

the theoretical framework of the French School of Regulation , School of Marxist Studies , South West

 University of Finance and Economics , March 2015

Field study on the Shanghai real estate industry top executives investment decision making process

and financing strategies with Professor Robert Boyer ,co- founder of the French School of Regulation

(Institute of Americas Paris )  and Professor Natacha Aveline Dubach (University Paris I-Panthéon

Sorbonne , January 2014

Organization of a conference on social innovation systems  with Professor Robert Boyer,

(Institut des Ameriques Paris) ,co-founder of the French School of Regulation , Honorary Fellow  of the

 Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) , at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences  ,

Beijing , January 2014

Organization of a conference on the global economic crisis  with Professor Robert Boyer,

(Institut des Ameriques Paris) ,co-founder of the French School of Regulation , Honorary Fellow

 of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) , at the Shanghai University of International

Business and Economics   , Shanghai  , January 2014

Organization of a conference on Chinese economic development model with Professor Michel Aglietta ,

 (HEC Paris-CEPII ) founder of the French School of Regulation  , Chairman of the Cour des Comptes of the

 French Ministry of Finance , and Guo Bai (HEC Paris)  at Dongua University Center for International

Program , Shanghai July 2013

Organization of a confererence on the global financial crisis and its implications for emerging

countries  with Professor Michel Aglietta , (HEC Paris-CEPII )  at Fudan University Institute for Advanced

Social Sciences  , Shanghai , July 2013

Organization of a conference on European sovereign and banking crisis with Professor Michel Aglietta ,

 (HEC Paris-CEPII )  at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences  , Shanghai , July 2013

Edition of  the “International Macroeconomic Relations  of China” , 4 volumes 1000 pages collected readings 

pack, CIEE-East China Normal University, Shanghai, March 2008 

Member of the Organization Committee of the Annual Meeting of the Chinese Economists 

Society  at  Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry , Yangling , Shaanxi , June 

2006 

Y. Bengio. Y. Bengio. Sylvain Gauthier , André Chabot , Francois Gingras  , Training a Neural

Network with a Financial Criterion Rather than a Prediction  Criterion. In Y.S. Abu-Mostafa

A.S. Weigend and A.-P.N. Refenes,editors, Proceedings of  the Fourth International Conference

on Neural Networks in the Capital Markets (NNCM- 96), pages 433-443. World Scientific, 1997.   

Y. Bengio. Sylvain Gauthier , André Chabot , François Gingras   Using a Financial Training

 Criterion Rather than a Prediction Criterion. Technical  Report #1019, Département d'informatique

 et recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, February 1996.  

Seminar organizer and speaker : neural networks applied to finance and business,  in collaboration

with the  Montreal CFA Association  ; Precarn Canada (Canadian collaborative intelligent Information

 and communications technology research organization)  ,the World Bank Treasury Department ,

 the London Business School and the Department of  Computer Science  and Operational Research ,

Laboratory of Adaptive Systems LISA , University of Montreal , 1995

 Report  on the Strategic, Economic, Legal, Technological and Institutional Consequences

of International Arms Race in Space, on the International  Military and Civilian Space Industry ,

presented at the United Nations International Space Law Conference  and published in the Annals

of Space Law , Center for Research on Air and Space Law,  McGill University, Montreal, 1981 

Professional TESOL Diploma, Global TESOL, 2008 

Canadian Securities Institute Conduct and Practices Certificate (2002) 

Canadian Securities Institute Securities Certificate (2001) 

Canadian Securities Institute Financial Futures and Options Certificate (1986) 

Training in Neural Network Modellng at the Third International Neural Networks in the Capital Markets 

Conference (NNCM95), London Business School (1995) 

Advanced Studies in Artificial Intelligence (Data Mining),Laboratoire LISA, DIRO, Université 

de Montréal (1995) 

Neural Networks in Industry Training Seminar, Department of Electrical 

Engineering, University of Toronto (1992) 

Ph.D in Economics courses auditor , McGill University , Montreal (1984)  

Master of Arts (M.A.); Economics, McGill University , Montreal (1981)  

Certificate in Economics   at  l’Université du Québec, Montréal (1978) 

Baccalauréat in Psychology, l’Université de Montréal (1977) 

First Year Studies in Experimental Psychology, École de Psychologie et Pédagogie  

de Jean Piaget, Université de Genève (1975)