Curriculum Vitae

Yuji Yamada, Ph. D.

Professor

Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba

3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan

E-mail: yuji at gssm dot otsuka dot Tsukuba dot ac dot jp

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  Dean, Faculty of Business Sciences (April 2018 – March 2021)

    Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

 

  Chair, Master's Program in Systems Management (April 2015March 2017)

    Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

 

  Professor  (April 2013 –- present)

     Faculty of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

 

  Associate Professor  (January 2002March 2013)

     Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

 

  Postdoctoral Scholar  (May 2000December 2001)

     Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, USA

     Host Adviser: Dr. John Doyle

 

  JSPS Research Fellow  (April 1998April 2000)

     Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship

EDUCATION

  Ph.D., Engineering  (March 1998)

Department of Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Dissertation title: ``Global Optimization for Robust Control Synthesis Based on the Matrix Product Eigenvalue Problem''

Adviser: Dr. Shinji Hara

 

  M.S., Engineering  (March 1995)

Department of Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Master's thesis title: ``Numerical Optimization for Constantly Scaled H-infinity Control Problem via Output Feedback''

Adviser: Dr. Shinji Hara

 

  B.S., Engineering  (March 1993)

     Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Chiba, Japan

     Adviser: Dr. Mitsuji Sampeii

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  Courses Taught in University of Tsukuba  (January 2002present)

     ''Mathematical Finance'' (Ph.D. Course)

     ''Advanced Topics in Financial Engineering'' (Ph.D. Course)

     ''Financial Engineering'' (Master's Program)

     ''Investment Science'' (Master's Program)

     ''Introduction to Finance'' (Master's Program)

     ''Data Analysis'' (Master's Program, 2002—2004)

     ''Financial Risk Management'' (Master's Program, 2002)

     ''Mathematical Model'' (Master's Program, 2002)

     ''Corporate Finance'' (Master's Program, 2004—2005)

 

  Courses Taught in Other Universities  (January 2002present)

     ''Financial Mathematics 1,'' ''Financial Mathematics 2'' (Aoyama Gakuin University, 2005—2006)

     ''Selected Topics in Industrial and Systems Engineering'' (Master's Program, Chuo University, 2005 — 2012)

     ''Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory'' (Master's Program, Kyoto University, 2007)

     ''Advanced Finance'' (Professional Career Program, Keio University,  2007)

 

  Instructor of Mathematics and Undergraduate Research Project  (April 1995 – March 1998)

     Department of Mechatronics, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

 

  Teaching Assistant  (April 1995 – March 1996)

     Department of Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

 

  Course Lecturer  (September 2001 – December 2001)

BEM (Business, Economics, and Management) and CDS (Control and Dynamical Systems) cross-listed course

Title: ''Stochastic Simulation in Finance (CDS270/BEM110)''

Graduate-level course in stochastic calculus and simulation with applications to computational finance (not previously offered in department)

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Construction of risk management system to support renewable energy P2P transactions (April 2020 – March 2025), Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JPY44,720,000.

 

Risk management system for losses caused by trading electricity in whole sales market using weather derivatives (April 2019 – March 2024), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory), 6,500,000 (JPY).

 

Constructions of forecast based strategies and real-time experiment systems for electricity trading market (April 2016 – March 2020), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A), JPY28,730,000.

 

Construction of Unified Management System for Market Risk and Energy Portfolios (April 2013 – March 2016), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), JPY16,120,000.

 

Dynamic Hedging of Multi-Asset Basket Options and its Application to Diversified Portfolio Management (April 2010 – March 2013), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JPY4,290,000.

 

Establishment of Pricing and Hedging Methodologies for Illiquid Asset Derivatives (April 2007 – March 2010), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), JPY 4,420,000.

 

Value-at-Risk Optimization of Multi-Dimensional Portfolios in a Multi-Period Setting (April 2007 – March 2010), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), JPY 3,700,000.

PAST RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  Postdoctoral Research  (April 1998 – December 2001)

     Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology

       Project: Stochastic control and its applications to computational and mathematical finance

1.     Pricing and computation of options and other derivatives on heavy tailed distributions

2.     Development of stochastic optimization technique based on dynamic programming

3.     Modeling of stock market taking into account risk management techniques

4.     VaR (Value-at-Risk) estimation for dynamic hedging

 

  Ph.D. Thesis Research  (April 1995March 1998)

     Department of Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

       Project: Global optimization for robust control synthesis based on the Matrix Product Engenvalue

5.     Propsed general framework for robust control synthesis leading to nonconvex optimization

6.     Developed global optimization algorithm for solving the MPEP

7.     Demonstrated computational complexity analysis for the proposed global optimization technique

8.     Applied a branch and bound method to reduce the computational complexity

 

  Master' Thesis Research  (April 1993March 1995)

     Department of Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

       Project: Numerical Optimization for Constantly Scaled H-infinity Control Problem via Output Feedback

9.      Proposed global optimization technique with polynomial order complexity for the diagonal case

10.   Developed efficient local optimization algorithm to solve constantly scaled H-infinity control problem

AWARDS

  Best Faculty Member (February 2024)

Awarded to the achievement in research and education for the academic year of 2023 among all faculty members in University of Tsukuba.

Award talk title: ``Derivatives and Market Design for Renewable Energy Transactions''

 

Best Faculty Member (February 2014)

Awarded to the achievement in research and education for the academic year of 2012 among all faculty members in University of Tsukuba.

Award talk title: ``Energy risk management and derivatives''

 

  JAFEE Best Paper Award  (March 2012)

Awarded to the best papers that appeared in the JAFEE journal and Asia-Pacific Financial Markets.

Title: ``Optimal design of wind derivatives based on prediction errors,'' appeared in the JAFEE journal, vol. 7, 2008 (in Japanese).

 

  SICE Best Paper Award  (August 1998)

Awarded to the year's best paper that appeared in the transactions on the Society of Instrumentation an Control Engineers, Japan.

Title: ``epsilon-Feasibility for H-infinity Control Problem with Constant Diagonal,'' appeared in the SICE Transactions, vol. 33, 1997.

 

  Young Author's Award  (February 1996)

Awarded to the year's top junior researchers who gave a presentation in the conferences of the SICE.

Title: ``H-infinity Control Problem with Constant Diagonal Scaling,'' presented in the 17th SICE Symposium on Dynamical System Theory, 1994.

FELLOWSHIPS

  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship  (April 1998—April 2000)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

The Society of Instrumentation and Control Engineers (SICE)

The Japanese Association of Financial Econometrics and Engineering (JAFEE)

Nippon Finance Association

The Operations Research Society of Japan

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVIEIES

President of JAFEE (2023present)

Board Committee Member of JAFEE (2005present)

Member of the IFAC TCEconomic, Business, and Financial Systems (2015present)

Member of the IEEE TCISDM (2006present)

Academic Editor of Energies, MDPI (2020present)

Associate Editors of Asia Pacific Financial Markets (2005present) and JAFEE Journal (20062023)

Editorial board member of Journal of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology (20072012).

Organizing Committee of the 1st Conference on Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology (2005)