Professor Gerhard Kling
I am a Professor of Finance at the University of Aberdeen, a YouTuber, and consultant (ex McKinsey). I studied economics and mathematics and enjoy programming. My work focuses on ML/AI and their applications in FinTech.
About the Instructor
I am a Chair in Finance at the University of Aberdeen with 20 years of experience in higher education, having previously held positions at SOAS, the University of Southampton, UWE, and Utrecht University. As a Practice Specialist in Corporate Finance at McKinsey & Company, I primarily focused on firm valuation and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Since January 2022, I have served as the Director and Secretary of YUNIKARN LTD, an educational content creation and consulting firm. The company’s YouTube channel, YUNIKARN, offers free courses in data science using Python and Stata. I have provided consulting services for notable organizations, including McKinsey & Company (2007–2010), HMRC (2012–2015), Industrial Bank (China) (2013), Brunello Cucinelli (2018), China State Shipbuilding Corporation (2019), the Third Bureau of Supervision of SASAC (2019), and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) (2021–2022). With a background in economics (PhD, BSc/MSc), mathematics (BSc/MSc), and programming (Python, C/C++, MATLAB, Stata, etc.), I specialize in machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and their applications in FinTech. I have acted as principal or co-investigator on several large-scale projects, including initiatives in FinTech (ESRC-NSFC: GBP 0.5 million), IoT (FP7: EUR 2.6 million), and satellite technology (FP6: EUR 11.9 million).
Skills and Specialization
I am a data nerd! I love data in all its forms. I have developed new methods in statistics (e.g., a qualitative panel vector autoregression using Bayesian methods). I am mostly into time series panel data methods, and simulations.
