Prof. Huining Cao
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.
Prof. Xin Chang
Prof. Xin Chang
Prof. Xin Chang is Professor of Finance, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Innovation (CSFI), and Associate Dean (Research) at Nanyang Business School, where he oversees PhD programs and research activities.
Prof. Chang received his BS and MA in Finance from Tsinghua University and his PhD in Finance from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
His research focuses on corporate finance, especially sustainable finance, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and stock valuation. He has taught undergraduate, honors, master’s, and PhD courses at HKUST, the University of Melbourne, the University of Cambridge, and NTU.
Prof. Chang received the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence in 2006 and the Dean’s Certificate for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 at the University of Melbourne. At NTU, he was named Researcher of the Year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2009, MBA Teacher of the Year in 2011, and Teacher of the Year for the Division of Banking and Finance in 2013. He also won the Peter Brownell Award for Best Publication in Accounting and Finance in 2007; best paper awards at the 16th SFM Conference in 2008, the 19th SFM Conference in 2011, and the 4th World Business Ethics Forum in 2012; and TCFA’s Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance. He received NTU’s inaugural Best PhD Supervisor Award, the Graduate College Mentoring Award, in 2020.
Prof. Xiaolei Liu
Prof. Xiaolei Liu
Prof. Xiaolei Liu is a Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, Chair of the Department of Finance, and Professor of Finance and Accounting at the Guanghua School of Management. She serves as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Master of Finance Professional Degree Education and Deputy Director of the Faculty of Economics and Management at Peking University.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, USA. Her academic papers have received numerous prestigious domestic and international awards, including the An Zijie International Trade Research Award, the Best Paper Award of Journal of Financial Research, the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Southern Finance Association, the Best Corporate Finance Paper Award of the Western Finance Association, the Best Paper Award of the Asian Finance Association, the Best Paper Award of the China International Conference in Finance, and the Best Paper Award of the China Financial Research Conference.
She previously served as an Associate Editor of Financial Management. Currently, she is an Associate Editor of Journal of Empirical Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, and Journal of International Trade Issues. Prof. Liu’s research has been published in many leading international and domestic academic journals, including Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science, Journal of Management Sciences in China, Journal of Financial Research, and International Financial Research.
She has been honored with the Zeng Xianzi Outstanding Teaching Award from Peking University. Her research interests lie in financial markets and corporate finance, with a recent focus on China-related issues. Prior to joining the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, she was a tenured faculty member at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Prof. Jianjun Miao
Prof. Jianjun Miao
Prof. Jianjun Miao is a Tsingshan Chair Professor of Economics at the School of Economics, Tsingshan Institute for Advanced Business Studies, and Academy of Financial Research, Zhejiang University.
Prof. Miao received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992, his MA in Economics from Sun Yat-sen University in 1995, and his PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2003.
He was formerly Professor of Economics at Boston University. He is a Fellow of SAET and a Senior Fellow of ABFER. He is an Associate Editor of Economic Theory and Macroeconomic Dynamics and a former Associate Editor of Quantitative Economics and Journal of Mathematical Economics. He is the founder of the China International Conference in Macroeconomics (CICM) and the China Forum of Macroeconomic Research.
His research spans macroeconomics and finance, including their intersections with decision theory, information economics, public finance, and industrial organization. His main research areas include the macroeconomic implications of bubbles and crashes, theories and applications of decision-making under uncertainty, rational inattention, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, dynamic contracts, asset pricing, and corporate finance.
Professor Miao has published more than 60 papers in major international journals, including six in top-five economics journals such as the American Economic Review and Econometrica; two in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), coauthored with Nobel laureate Lars Peter Hansen; five in top finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies; and 17 in leading economics journals such as American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Monetary Economics, Quantitative Economics, and Theoretical Economics. He has published three books and won a Best Paper Prize at the 2009 CICF.
Prof. Hui Xiong
Prof. Hui Xiong
Prof. Hui Xiong is Associate Vice-President for Knowledge Transfer and Chair Professor of the Artificial Intelligence Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
Prof. Xiong received his BS in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China, his MS in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
His research interests include data science and artificial intelligence. He has published more than 400 papers, and his work has received more than 50,000 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 96. He has received numerous honors and awards for his academic contributions, including the 2021 AAAI Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, and the 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award. For his contributions to data mining and mobile computing, he was elected a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, CAAI, and IEEE, and was elected an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Prof. Xiong currently serves as ACM SIGKDD Secretary, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of GIS, Deputy Director of the CCF Expert Committee on Big Data, and Editor-in-Chief of npj Artificial Intelligence. He has served regularly on the organization and program committees of numerous conferences, including as Program Co-Chair of the Industrial and Government Track for the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Program Co-Chair for the IEEE 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), General Co-Chair for the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and Program Co-Chair of the Research Track for the 2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
In addition to his academic contributions, Prof. Xiong previously served as Chief Scientist (Smart City) and Deputy Dean at Baidu Research Institute, where he led five research labs and made significant contributions to industry practice. He is also dedicated to education, having supervised approximately 30 PhD students. Many of his graduates now hold faculty positions at prominent research universities, including the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Arizona-Tucson, Stony Brook University, George Mason University, ESCP Business School-Paris, the University of Kansas, Arizona State University, and the City University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Dacheng Xiu
Prof. Dacheng Xiu
Prof. Dacheng Xiu is the Joseph Sondheimer Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Prof. Xiu received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China and his MA and PhD in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University.
Prof. Xiu is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently holds, and has previously held, several editorial positions, including Co-Editor of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and Journal of Financial Econometrics, as well as Associate Editor for journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, and Journal of Econometrics.
He has received numerous recognitions for his research, including Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, the AQR Insight Award, the Dimensional Fund Advisors Prize, the Bates White Prize, and best paper prizes at various conferences. He has been recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professors.