Researcher: Otto Yung

Meet Otto Yung

Otto Yung

Otto Yung has 18 years of experience working in a range of sectors including financial services, higher education, telecommunications, hydro-utility, manufacturing and municipal services.

He has led multi-million dollar programs and initiatives in: corporate finance, operations, risk management, capital planning, mergers and acquisitions, and enterprise application software.

Otto is a CFA Charterholder, an Accountant (CPA, CMA) and a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.).

In current data-related activities, he has been supervising UTM undergraduate students under the Research Opportunity Program since the summer of 2019 (i.e. Course Code MGT 399). These students have been working with Python, Power BI, Tableau and Excel in visualizing and analyzing time series data and other business-related data.

These activities have influenced the teaching material and timed assessments for several courses that he teaches (e.g. Risk Management, Coding and Financial Modelling). For the BDAIH, he is interested in developing short case studies and assignments focusing on data visualization/analytics.