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 | | German Creamer, PhD | | Associate Professor, Joint Appointment with the Howe School of Technology Management |
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| Courses: | | FE 535 - Introduction to Financial Risk Management | | FE 635 - Financial Enterprise Risk Engineering |
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Research & Education
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| Education |
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- Ph.D., Computer Science (computational finance), 2007, Columbia University
- M.Sc., Financial Engineering, 2002, Columbia University
- Ph.D., Economics, 1993, University of Notre Dame
- M.A., Economics, 1989, University of Notre Dame
- Licentiate, Sociology, 1986, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- Licentiate, Psychology, 1985,Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
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| | Research |
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| Computational Finance, Risk Management, Automated Trading, Decision Support Systems and Machine Learning Applications to Finance. |
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Experience & Service
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| General Information |
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Germán Creamer is an Associate Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises and in the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Creamer has been a senior manager in the Risk, Information and Banking Division in American Express where he worked in the enterprise-wide risk management and the information management groups. He has taught at Columbia University, Tulane University, and in several leading Latin American business schools. Professor Creamer has been the manager of planning and economic studies at Banco del Pacífico (Ecuador), program officer for the United Nations Development Programme, economic advisor to the president of Ecuador, and to the government of Equatorial Guinea. He has also consulted for several hedge funds and international organizations such as United Nations Development Programme, and US Agency for International Development.
Dr. Creamer has a PhD in Computer Science (specialized on computational finance), a MSc in Financial Engineering, both from Columbia University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. He has published several books and articles, and presented several papers in major conferences in his area of specialization. Professor Creamer is also a CFA charter holder. His current area of research is on risk management, trading systems, financial information systems and data mining/machine learning applications to finance. |
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Achievements & Professional Societies
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| Honors & Awards |
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| American Express Leadership Award on Innovation, 2007 | | Grants, Contracts & Funds |
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- Board of Regents, State of Louisiana, grant for establishing a “Risk Management System of Latin American Capital Markets”, 1999-2002.
- MacArthur Foundation / Institute of Peace Studies Scholarship, University of Notre Dame, 1989.
- Institute for the Study of World Politics Scholarship, 1989.
- Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1989.
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| Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating data quality indicators for relationships in a database (patent application under review, 2007). | | Professional Societies |
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| American Finance Association, New York Society of Security Analysts, CFA Institute |
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Publications
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Journals- Germán Creamer and Yoav Freund. "Automated Trading with Boosting and Expert Weighting", Quantitative Finance
- Germán Creamer and Sal Stolfo. (2009). "A Link Mining Algorithm for Earnings Forecast and Trading", Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 3 (18)
- Germán Creamer and Yoav Freund. (2007). "A Boosting Approach for Automated Trading", Journal of Trading. 3 (2)
- Germán Creamer. (2004). "Regionalismo Abierto en la Comunidad Andina: creación o desviación de comercio", El Trimestre Económico (281)
- Germán Creamer. (2003). "Open Regionalism in the Andean Region: A trade flow analysis", World Trade Review. 1 (2)
- Germán Creamer et al. (1999). "Cost of Hospital Cholera Treatment in Ecuador", Pan American Journal of Public Health. 2 (5)
- Germán Creamer. (1994). "La apertura de la economía ecuatoriana al Grupo Andino: el rol de los bienes de consumo básico", Políticas Agrícolas
- Germán Creamer. (1994). "Integración del Ecuador en el Mercado Andino: evaluación del impacto macroeconómico y sectorial", Cuestiones Económicas (21)
Conference Proceedings- Germán Creamer, Ryan Rowe, Shlomo Hershkop and Sal Stolfo. (Aug 2007). "Automated Social Hierarchy Detection through Email Network Analysis", Web Mining and Social Network Analysis Workshop on International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Jose, CA
- Germán Creamer and Yoav Freund. (Aug 2006). "A Boosting Approach for Automated Trading", Data Mining for Business Applications Workshop on International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Philadelphia
- Germán Creamer and Sal Stolfo. (Aug 2006). "A Link Mining Algorithm for Earnings Forecast Using Boosting", Link Analysis: Dynamics and Statics of Large Networks Workshop on International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Philadelphia
- Sal Stolfo, Germán Creamer and Shlomo Hershkop. (2006). "A Temporal Based Forensic Analysis of Electronic Communication", National Conference on Digital Government Research, San Diego, California
- Germán Creamer and Yoav Freund. (Nov 2004). "Predicting Performance and Quantifying Corporate Governance Risk for Latin American ADRs and Banks", Financial Engineering and Applications conference, MIT-Cambridge
- Germán Creamer. (1999). "Open Regionalism, Trade Liberalization and the Role of Small Producers in the Case of Ecuador and the Andean Community", Business Association of Latin American Studies (BALAS) Conference, New Orleans
Books- Germán Creamer, Clark W. Reynolds and K.S. Kim. (1997), Ecuador en la Economía Mundial: El regionalismo abierto y la participación del Ecuador en el Grupo Andino, el Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio y la Cuenca del Pacífico, Corporación Editora Nacional
- Germán Creamer. (1992), ILDIS, Redistribution, Inflation and Adjustment Policies: A Macro Neo-Structuralist Model for Ecuador
- Allan Castelnuovo and Germán Creamer. (1987), La Desarticulación del Mundo Andino, Abya-Yala Press
Book Chapters- Germán Creamer. (2009). "Andean Community", Kenneth A. Reinert & Ramkishen S. Rajan , The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press
- Germán Creamer, Ryan Rowe, Shlomo Hershkop and Sal Stolfo. (2008). "Segmentation and Automated Social Hierarchy Detection through Email Network Analysis", Zhang et al. , Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis - 9th WEBKDD and 1st SNA-KDD Workshop at KDD 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag
- Germán Creamer and María Herrera. (1993). "Ecuador: de la exportación al petróleo", Clark Reynolds, Reinhardt Wettmann and César Ferrari, Las Economías Andinas, ILDIS
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