Faculty Biographies
Benjamin Van Vliet
LecturerOffice: DTC 454
E-Mail:
bvanvliet@stuart.iit.edu
Phone: 312.906.6513
Fax: 312.906.6549
Education
- B.A., Business, Calvin College 1994
- M.S., Financial Markets and Trading, Illinois Institute of Technology 1999
Affiliated Programs
MS Finance
Research Interests
- Systematic trading and investment. Quality control of trading sytems and technology.
Biography
Ben Van Vliet is a Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business (IIT), where he also serves as the Associate Director of the M.S. Finance program.? At IIT he teaches courses in quantitative finance, C++ and .NET programming, and automated trading system design and development.? He serves also as series editor of the Financial Markets Technology series for Elsevier/Academic Press. Mr. Van Vliet consults extensively in the financial markets industry, primarily on topics related to the mathematics, technology and management of trading systems.? Mr. Van Vliet is the author of three books on trading/investment:? Quality Money Management with Andrew Kumiega, Modeling Financial Markets with Robert Hendry, Building Automated Trading Systems.? Additionally, he has published several articles in the areas of finance and technology, and presented at several academic and professional conferences.
