Edward Tsang

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Edward Tsang is a Computer Science professor at the University of Essex. He holds a first degree in Business Administration (major in Finance) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1977), and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex (1983 and 1987). Prior to his PhD studies, he served for five years in various positions in the commercial sector in Hong Kong.

Edward Tsang is the co-founder and Deputy Director of Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA). CCFEA is an interdisciplinary research centre, which applies artificial intelligence methods to problems in finance and economics.

Edward Tsang is also a founding member and Deputy Director of the Centre for Computational Intelligence at University of Essex, which specializes in applications of computational intelligence techniques. Current applications include games, biology and business. A few key members of the Centre are active members of IEEE's Computational Intelligence Society.

Edward Tsang is the author of Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction, the first book to define the scope of the field.

Edward Tsang founded the Computation Finance and Economics Technical Committee in IEEE’s Computational Intelligence Society in 2004, and chaired it until the end of 2005.

Edward Tsang specializes in business application of artificial intelligence. His research interests include artificial intelligence applications, computational finance, constraint satisfaction, evolutionary computation, and heuristic search. He has given consultation to GEC Marconi, British Telecom, the Commonwealth Secretariat and other organizations.

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• Edward Tsang home page
• Tsang, E.P.K., Foundations of Constraint Satisfaction, Academic Press, 1993 ISBN 0-12-701610-4
• Centre for Computational Finance and Economics (CCFEA) at University of Essex
• Computational Intelligence Centre (CIC) at University of Essex
• IEEE Computational Finance and Economics TC (CFETC)