Dr I-Chen Lu

I-Chen is currently employed as a Lecturer in Finance at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Northampton. She has previously held an academic position at York St John University and worked in the Risk Management Department for Taiwan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. She holds a PhD in Finance from Loughborough University and an MPhil in Management Mathematics from University of Birmingham. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Areas of current research interest include optimization techniques, with emphasis on the application of the robust optimization model in asset management and the development of optimization models for practical problems with large data sets, portfolio management with asymmetric risk measures, fuzzy programming for portfolio management, with emphasis on using ambiguous linguistic data in numerical modelling,  and impacts of stock market stability systems in investment management.

ACC2022 Financial Intermediation

ACC3007 International Money and Finance

ACC3016 International Trade Finance

*Quantitative analysis

*Portfolio Management

*Strategic Corporate Finance