About
Dr. Noah Silverman
Dr. Noah Silverman is a statistician and technologist whose work concerns problems in which systems are complex, data is large, and answers are genuinely uncertain. He holds a PhD in statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has worked with data and technology for more than twenty years.
His research addresses probabilistic models of complex and stochastic systems, with specialties in artificial intelligence, machine learning, hierarchical Bayesian models, classifiers, support vector machines, and textual analysis. He is the author of papers on the mathematical modelling of complex data systems.
In industry, he has served as head of research and development for both hedge funds and institutional exchanges. He designed the institutional trading and settlement systems built for Fusang, and founded Light.cx, a trading platform for cryptocurrency derivatives; his work on smart order routing, options volatility models, and algorithmic trading is in production for institutional clients. He has been active in digital assets since 2011, with experience spanning trading, blockchain architecture, smart contracts, derivatives, and systems for settlement, clearing, custody, and tokenization.
Dr. Silverman is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong, where he teaches blockchain data analytics and financial engineering for cryptocurrency, and he lectures in academic and professional settings. Beyond finance, his applied work includes more than a decade of statistical modelling of sports betting markets, with results published academically, and engagements in digital advertising, construction, education, and medicine.
Before establishing his consulting practice, he founded several technology firms, including webclipping.com and TrademarkTracker. He is also the founder of Impossible Tech.
The consistent thread is the ability to move between rigorous technical construction and the strategic questions that determine whether the technical work matters.
Broadcast appearances include television and radio interviews for Reuters and RTHK Radio 3.
As a child, he preferred taking the telephone apart to talking on it. The orientation has not changed: understand the mechanism, then make it useful at the scale that capital and regulation demand.
He is based in Hong Kong.