Committees

Conference Chair

Prof. Huining Cao

Prof. Huining Cao is Professor of Finance at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and a member of the American Finance Association. He previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Cao’s research focuses on portfolio management, option pricing, asset pricing, market microstructure, and international finance.

In recent years, he has published extensively in leading international journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics, and his research is widely cited. He was nominated twice for the Smith Breeden Prize for the best paper in the Journal of Finance, in 1998 and 2000. He has also received the Best Paper Award in Emerging Market Research from the Northern Finance Association, the Best Paper Award Most Relevant to Practitioners from the Western Finance Association, and the Third Best Paper Award at the 2004 China International Finance Conference.

Professor Cao serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Economics and Finance. He is Co-Editor of the International Review of Finance and Associate Editor of the China Financial Review.

Conference Co-Chair

Prof. Qiang Ye

Qiang Ye is a chair professor and doctoral supervisor of the University of Science and Technology of China. He has successively served as a member of the 6th National Steering Committee for MBA Education, a member of the Discipline Review Group of the 7th Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, and a member of Educational Steering Committee for Management Science and Engineering, Ministry of Education of China, Vice Chairman of the Society of Management Science and Engineering, Chairman of the Big Data and Business Analytics Branch, Vice Chairman of China Association for Information Systems(CNAIS), Vice Chairman of China Information Economics Society, and Chairman of the Financial Technology Professional Committee.

Prof. Qiang Ye’s main research areas are financial technology, digital economy, big data analysis, and AI for business. He has been a frequent contributor to MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Tourism Management, Journal of Futures Markets, and other leading academic journals and international conferences. He has conducted research and taught at Harbin Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego, and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and served as the dean of the School of Economics and Management at Harbin Institute of Technology from December 2014 to May 2022. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars, the head of the Innovation Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has been recognized as an Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar in China (2015–2024).