About the authors

Dr. Yuxing Yan graduated from McGill University with a PhD in finance. He has taught various finance courses at eight universities in Canada, Singapore, and the U.S. He has published 23 research and teaching-related papers, and is the author of 6 books. Two of his recent publications are Python for Finance and Financial Modelling using R. He is well-versed in R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, Octave, and C. In addition, he is an expert on financial data analytics.

I thank Ben Amoako-Adu, Brian Smith, Jin-Chun Duan, Jerome Detemple, Lawrence Kryzanowski, Chris Schull, Mark Keintz, Dong Xu, Eric Zhu, Paul Ratnaraj, Premal Vora, Shuguang Zhang, Mireia Gine, Shaojun Zhang, Qian Sun, Shaobo Ji, Xing Zhang, Changwen Miao, Karyl Leggio, K. G. Viswanathan, Mark Lennon, Qiyu Zhang, Xiaoning (my wife), Jing (my daughter) and James (my son) for their help and support.

James Yan is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (UofT), currently double-majoring in computer science and statistics. He has hands-on knowledge of Python, R, Java, MATLAB, and SQL. During his study at UofT, he has taken many related courses, such as Methods of Data Analysis I and II, Methods of Applied Statistics, Introduction to Databases, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Numerical Methods, including a capstone course on AI in clinical medicine.