Research Interests

Applied Microeconomics, International Economics, Environmental Economics, Political and Law Economics, Economic Networks, Econometrics, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph, GAN.

Employment

  • Associate Professor (Tenured), 2023 - Present
    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University
    School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (Dual Appointment)
  • Honorary Associate Professor in Economics, 2023-2026
    University of Queensland
  • Assistant Professor, 2015-2023
    HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong
  • Adjunct Professor (During Ph.D.), 2014
    State University of New York

Education

  • Economics Ph.D., 2015, Columbia University, New York | Concentration: Finance
    Dissertation Committee: Patrick Bolton, Ailsa Röell, José Scheinkman, Dan J. Wang, Tri Vi Dang
  • Economics M.Phil., 2012 & Economics M.A., 2011, Columbia University, New York
  • Economics B.A., 2009, Tsinghua University, Beijing
  • National Experimental Class of Science, 2005, Ministry of Education of P.R.C., Shanghai
    Concentration: Biology, Chemistry

Awarded Research Funds and Grants

  • Shenzhen City Scientific Research Fund, 5M RMB (714K USD), 2023-2026
  • China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas), 2M RMB (285K USD), 2023-2026
  • Tsinghua University Basic Project Fund, 100K RMB (15K USD), 2023
  • HK General Research Fund (GRF), 350K HKD (44K USD), 2022-2023
  • HK General Research Fund (GRF), 450K HKD (56K USD), 2018-2019
  • HK General Research Fund (ECS), 500K HKD (62K USD), 2016-2017
  • Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Project Fund, HKU, 100K HKD (12.5K USD), 2016
  • Matching Fund, HKU, 80K HKD (10K USD), 2015
  • Seed Fund, HKU, 150K HKD (19K USD), 2015

Academic Service

  1. Ad-hoc Referee for:
    over 100 ABDC A*, ABS 4 / 4* and UTD24 journals
  2. Discussant at Many Conferences
  3. Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Singapore, 2025
  4. Western Finance Association (WFA) Program Committee, 2022
  5. Western Finance Association (WFA) Program Committee, 2021
  6. Session Chair, 2019 FMA European Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2019
  7. Master Dissertation Committee Chair, Central Univ. of Fin. and Econ., Beijing, China, 2019
  8. Session Chair, 31st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2018
  9. Session Chair, Shanghai Lixin Workshop on Law and Finance, Shanghai, China, 2018
  10. Session Chair, 2018 Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance, Hue City, Vietnam, 2018
  11. Trade Session Chair, China Meeting of the Econometric Society, Wuhan, China, 2017

Certificates

  • Executive Education, 2016
    Harvard Business School, Boston
  • Summer Session, 2008
    UC Berkeley, California

Professional Affiliations

  • American Economic Association (AEA)
  • Royal Economic Society
  • Econometric Society
  • American Finance Association (AFA)
  • European Finance Association (EFA)
  • Western Finance Association (WFA)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Academic Awards and Prizes

  1. Annual Research Excellence Award for Year 2024, Tsinghua University, 2025
  2. Faculty Research Postgraduate Supervision Award, The University of Hong Kong, 2022
  3. Bureau van Dijk Prize in Corporate Finance, 34th UNSW Australian Finance and Banking Conference, 2021
  4. Faculty Research Postgraduate Supervision Award, The University of Hong Kong, 2021
  5. Bureau van Dijk Prize in Corporate Finance, 31st UNSW Australian Finance and Banking Conference, 2018
  6. Summer Stipend, Columbia University, 30K USD, 2009-2015
  7. Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 500K USD, 2009-2015
  8. Meritorious Winner (Top 2-12%), American Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2008
  9. Comprehensive Scholarship Award, Tsinghua University, 2008
  10. First Prize, Chinese Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2007
  11. China Construction Bank Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 2007
  12. First Academic Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2006
  13. Bronze Award, 13th National High School Biology Olympiad (Winter Camp), 2004
  14. 3rd Place (Shanghai) and First Prize, National High School Biology Olympiad, 2004
  15. 1st Place (Nationwide) and First Prize, National Middle School Math Olympiad, 2001
  16. 3rd Place (Anhui) and First Prize, National Middle School Chemistry Olympiad, 2001

University Service

  • Deputy Director, Research Center for Computational Finance, Tsinghua SIEM
  • Global Strategic Advisory Committee, Tsinghua SIGS
  • Master of Finance FinTech Admissions Committee, HKU FBE
  • Master of Finance FinTech Curriculum Development Committee, HKU FBE
  • Faculty Information Technology Committee, HKU FBE
  • Finance Area Brown Bag Seminar Organizer, HKU FBE

Teaching Experience

  • Seminars on Advanced Topics in Finance, Master, Tsinghua University, 2025
  • Cryptography and Network Security, Master, Tsinghua University, 2025
  • Research on Frontier Issues in Finance, Master, Tsinghua University, 2023-2024
  • Advanced Financial Programming and Databases, Master, HKU, 2017-2022
  • Financial Programming and Databases, Undergraduate, HKU, 2017-2022
  • Corporate Finance, Undergraduate, HKU, 2016-2022
  • Money and Banking, Master and Undergraduate, State University of New York, 2014
  • Financial Management, Master and Undergraduate, State University of New York, 2014
  • Microeconomics, Master, Columbia University (TA), 2010
  • Corporate Finance, Master and Undergraduate, Columbia University (TA), 2010-2015
  • Statistics of Sustainability Management, Master, Columbia University (TA), 2011
  • Principles of Economics, Undergraduate, Columbia University (TA), 2012/2011
  • Principles of Economics, Undergraduate, Tsinghua University (TA), 2008

Placement of Supervised PhDs

  • Wang, Youan (Xiamen University, Assistant Professor, 2022)
  • Yu, Luping (Xiamen University, Assistant Professor, 2021)

Placement of Past RAs

  1. Chien, Ho Yin (Cornell master, Cornell PhD)
  2. Lau, Chun Pong Conroy (HSBC, LSE master, U Chicago PhD)
  3. Li, Yan (HKU, PhD)
  4. Liu, Po-Yu (HKU, PhD)
  5. Wang, Youan (HKU, PhD)
  6. Yadav, Nitesh (UC Irvine, PhD)
  7. Yu, Luping (HKU, PhD)
  8. Gu, Huaqing (Columbia, master)
  9. Li, Yuanhao (Princeton, master)
  10. Wang, Yung-Kuang (LSE, master)
  11. Zheng, Weiran (Johns Hopkins, master)
  12. He, Junyang (U Virginia, undergrad)
  13. Li, Yiting (USC, undergrad)
  14. U, Kaicheng (Emory, undergrad)
  15. Wang, Jinyi (U Michigan, undergrad)
  16. Zhang, Jingjing (Columbia, undergrad)
  17. Khandelwal, Chetanya (BCG)
  18. Rana, Tariq (BoA)
  19. Tsui, Matthew (BlackRock)
  20. Wang, Ching-Yuan (Goldman Sachs)