About the Series:
This seminar series seeks to assemble mathematicians, statistician, computer scientists, and other research scientists as well as industry experts to discuss the current breakthroughs and research challenges in areas that underpin blockchain technology.
Invited Speakers:
Andreas Park (University of Toronto)
Henry Kim (York University)
Marek Laskowski (York University)
Talk Abstracts:
Talk 1: Market Design with Blockchain Technology - Andreas Park
Blockchain technology creates distributed digital records of transactions and enables dis-intermediated financial transfers. The visibility of these records and users ability to infer information from them are critical system design choices. We examine how these choices influence traders economic incentives, trading behavior, trading costs, and investor welfare, in a theoretical model of investor-to-investor trading. Full transparency yields the highest welfare, by construction. Privacy of holdings obtains either by restricting the records visibility or by assigning numerous identifiers per investor. The latter solution, native to public blockchains, yields higher welfare than the traditionally limited visibility, despite the higher risk of front-running.
Talk 1 Slides: http://slides.com/ap248/deck-1-2-3-4-...
Talk 2: blockchain.lab.yorku.ca - Henry Kim
Many in the business world are hailing the blockchain as the next big technological innovation. Don Tapscott, for example, states that blockchain is core to the evolution from the Internet of information to the Internet of Value. Fortuitously, key blockchain pioneers like Tapscott and Vitalik Buterin, the principal developer of Ethereum, hail from Toronto. As a result, there is an internationally-recognized, thriving blockchain ecosystem in Toronto to which blockchain.lab.yorku.ca contributes. In this talk, we will describe some of our initiatives that leverage the resources that are uniquely available at a university to make a unique contribution to the blockchain ecosystem in Canada and internationally. We will discuss initiatives such as our collaboration with the UN on blockchain for shipping, collaboration with the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority on a blockchain for a sustainable electricity micro-grid, a collaboration with a prominent blockchain startup on using deep learning for a blockchain consensus mechanism, and our blockchain development course for management students.
Talk 2 Slides: https://goo.gl/zjgN81
Speaker Bios
Andreas Park is an associate professor of finance at the University of Toronto, where he has been a faculty member since 2003. He is a member of the department of management at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and he is cross-appointed at the Rotman School of Management and the Institute of Management and Innovation. Andreas works on a number of theoretical and empirical research projects on the economic impact of technological transformations such as high frequency and dark trading in Canadian equity markets and the impact of the market design of trading when securities are on the blockchain. His work has been published in such top journals in economics and finance as Econometrica, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has received and has been an affiliate of a number of research grants from the ESRC in the UK, the SSHRC in Canada, and the GRI. Andreas has served as co-director of the Master of Financial Economics program at the University of Toronto, he is the associate chair of the department of management at UTM, and he teaches courses on financial technology, market microstructure, trading, investments, asset pricing, and corporate finance. He currently serves a two-year term on the OSC's Market Structure Advisory Committee, he is a pro-bono consultant for the IIROC, and he is a principal researcher at the Rotman School of Management's Financial Innovation Hub.
Henry Kim is a leading expert in the development of AI ontologies and blockchain modelling. For his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto, he worked on TOVE, a world renowned investigation into developing AI-ontology based enterprise systems. He works at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto as an Associate Professor of Decision Technologies, and is the co-director of blockchain.lab.yorku.ca. He has authored 60+ scientific articles in venues such as IEEE and ACM publications, and his current research focuses on blockchain use, especially for supply chain applications. He is a Canadian delegate to the United Nations/CEFACT Technical Committee on Blockchain, a contributing academic to the Government of Canada whitepaper on Digital Ledger Technology, faculty member at Don Tapscott's Blockchain Research Institute, and principal investigator on $100,000+ academia-industry grants on blockchain research.
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