CV
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Full Professor of Finance, Stony Brook University, 2018 ~ Present
Associate Dean for Programs, College of Business, Stony Brook University, 2023 ~ Present
Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development, College of Business, Stony Brook University, 2019 ~ 2023
Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Stony Brook University, 2016 ~ 2018
Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Florida State University, 2012 ~ 2017 (on leave from 2016 ~ 2017)
Assistant Professor of Finance, Florida State University, 2006 ~ 2012
SunTrust Professorship, Florida State University, 2015 ~ 2016
Dean L. Cash Professorship, Florida State University, 2010 ~ 2014
AFFILIATED ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Co-Director, Center of Entrepreneurial Finance, Stony Brook University, 2018 ~ Present
Co-Director, Blockchain Business Lab, Stony Brook University, 2018 ~ Present
Courtesy Appointment, College of Business, Florida State University, 2017 ~ Present
Affiliated Faculty, Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University, 2016 ~ Present
Research Affiliate, Center of Behavioral Political Economy, Stony Brook University, 2016 ~ Present
Affiliated Faculty, Applies Math & Statistics, Stony Brook University, 2023 ~ Present
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Finance, The Ohio State University, 2006
Master of Arts in Economics, The Ohio State University, 2001
Bachelor of Arts in Finance (with Honors), Nanjing University, China, 1999
AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Asset pricing: Investor psychology and asset pricing and management, stock market seasonality, factor pricing models, short selling,
Alternative Investments: Blockchain and crypto investments
Corporate finance: Managerial attributes, firm culture and firm policy, investor psychology and corporate events
Individual Investor, household and analyst behavior: Trust, reference point adaption, political preferences
AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST
Investments (Undergraduate and Master’s Levels)
Behavioral Finance (Undergraduate, Master’s, and PhD Levels)
Theoretical and Empirical Asset Pricing (PhD level)
UNIVERSITY SERVICES
Member
Secretary, Executive Board, Faculty Student Association (FSA), Stony Brook University (2023 - Present)
Member, Board of Directors, Faculty Student Association (FSA), Stony Brook University (2019 - Present)
Investment Committee, Faculty Student Association (FSA), Stony Brook University (Chair, 2019 - 2023; Member, 2023 - Present)
College of Business Dean's Search Committee, Co-Chair (2022 - 2023)
MSCHE Middle States Standard I Team (2022 - 2023)
Stony Brook University Project REACH Visioning Committee (2022)
Associate Dean of Research (ADR) Strategic Council (2021)
Search Committee of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs (2019)
COACHE Working Group on Promotion to Full Professor (2018)
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Advisory Board member and CFO, Asian-American Entrepreneur Association VIP Club (AAEA Club, 2024 - Present)
Board member, Treasurer, and CFO, Asian-American Entrepreneur Association (AAEA, 2021 - Present)
Founder and Director, Stony Finance Lab (2021 - Present)
Faculty advisor, Generation She (2022 )
Mentor, Stony Brook AAPI Mentorship Network (2021 - 2022)
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) International Scholar Workshop Series, "Interdisciplinary Business Research" (2023)
SWJTU School of Economics and Management Summer Workshop, "Financial Intelligence and Personal Finance" (2023, 2022)
SBU Weeks of Welcome (WOW) Workshops:
Take Advantage of Research and Practice Opportunities (2023)
Personal Finance for College Students (2022); Blockchain, Cryptos, and Web 3.0 (2022)
Planning Personal Finance (2021); Blockchain and Cryptos (2021)
Investing and Trading: Risk Management (2022); Blockchain and Cryptos: Risk and Opportunities (2022)
SBU Finance Society Workshop: Blockchain, Crypto, and NFT: Risk and Opportunity (2023), Blockchain, Cryptos, DeFi, and NFTs (2022)
SBU Investment Club Workshops:
Investing and Trading: Risk Management (2022); Blockchain and Cryptos: Risk and Opportunities (2022)
SBU WiCS HopperHacks Collab: Blockchain, Cryptos, and Web 3.0 (2022); Blockchain, Cryptos, and NFTs: Risk and Opportunities (2023)
The Shift Group "Let's Talk About Finance" Workshop (Panelist, 2021)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Member
Advisory Council, Financial Analyst Journal (2015 - 2020)
Nominations Committee, Financial Analyst Journal (2018)
Editorial Board, Investment Management and Financial Innovations (2018)
Nominating Committee, Financial Management Association (2015 - 2016)
Conference organizer or co-organizer
Ad Hoc Referee or External Reviewer
Finance Journals: Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Financial Analysts Journal, Critical Finance Review, Financial Management, Journal of Empirical Finance, Quantitative Finance, Quarterly Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Futures Market, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Managerial Finance, Finance Research Letters, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Review of Financial Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, Decisions in Economics and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Borsa Istanbul Review, and others
Economics Journals: Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of The European Economic Association, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters
Accounting Journals: Review of Accounting Studies
General Business Journals: Management Science, Journal of Business Ethics, SAGE Open, Risk Analysis, Business and Politics
Psychology and General Social Science Journals: Acta Psychologica, Psychological Science, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Economic Psychology
Funding Agencies: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, The Ministry of Education of China Chang Jiang Scholars Program
Book Publishers: Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, Routledge Research Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Yale University Press
Promotion & Tenure Cases (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023)
Conference Program Committee or Reviewer: FMA (2010, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017), European Finance Association (2013 - 2023), SFS Finance Cavalcade (2011, 2020 - 2023), Midwest Finance Association (2015, 2020), Asian Finance Association (AsianFA 2015), World Finance Conference (2016, 2017), Annual Conference on Financial Economics & Accounting (2016), Journal of Law, Finance & Accounting Conference (2018), SunTrust Beach Conference Committee (2008 - 2010)
Session Chair, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conferences (2006, 2013, 2021), Midwest Finance Association (MF) Annual Conference (2018), Midwest Finance Association (2018), Applied Finance Conference (2022, 2024)
Session Organizer, Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Conferences (2012, 2013)
Conference/Workshop Presentation
China Journal of Accounting Research (CJAR) Summer Research Workshop hosted by Sun Yat-Sen University (2022)
International Conference “Fintech in Emerging Markets” hosted by Guangxi University (Keynote, 2022)
Accounting Cooperation Forum of Jiaotong Universities (3rd annual conference, Keynote, 2021)
Shanghai Financial Forefront Symposium by Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2021)
SUNY-NYS FinTech Innovation Series 2: Entrepreneurship in Crypto and Decentralized Finance (Panelist, 2021)
Pazhou Forum at Guangdong University of Finance & Economics (2021)
GEC-FERC Finance Talk by Tianjin University (2021)
CIE-GNYC Convention (2020)
Smith Forum at Nanjing University (2020)
International Conference on Financial System Stability of Emerging Markets at Capital University of Economics and Business (Keynote, 2020)
CAST-GNY Seminar (2020)
NYC Block Plus Summit (Keynote, 2019)
Society of Quantitative Finance (2018)
The Association of Law and Economics Annual Meetings (ALEA 2017*)
The CEIBS Finance Conference (2016)
Eastern Finance Association Conference (EFA 2016*)
FMA Applied Finance Conference (FMAAFC 2015*)
World Finance Conference (WFC 2016*)
Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference (MFA 2015*, 2016*, 2018)
American Economic Association (AEA) (AEA 2014*)
Mid-Atlantic Research Conference in Finance (MARC 2013*)
Utah Winter Finance Conference (UWFC 2013)
Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics Annual Conferences (ABFE 2009, 2012*)
CRSP forum (2010*)
American Finance/Economics Association Annual Conference (AFA/AEA/AFE 2008, 2011*, 2017)
Western Finance Association Annual Conference (WFA 2009)
Financial Management Association Annual Conference (FMA 2006, 2008, 2012*, 2013* two papers, 2015*, 2016* two papers, 2018,2020)
Behavioral Decision Research in Management Conference (BDRM 2006 paper/poster, 2008 paper/poster, 2010 poster)
Society of Judgment and Decision Making Annual Conference (SJDM 2005, 2006*)
China International Conference in Finance (CICF 2008, 2016, 2017, 2019)
Maryland Finance Symposium (2007)
Conference Discussion
Shanghai Financial Forefront Symposium (2021)
Applied Finance Conference Hosted by St. John’s University (2018),
Fordham University Conference on China's Financial Markets and Growth Rebalancing (2017)
The Ohio State University Finance Alumni Conference (OSU-FAC 2014)
Midwest Finance Association Annual Conference (MFA 2014, 2015, 2016)
Driehaus Behavioral Finance Symposium, DePaul University (2011)
Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics Annual Conferences (ABFE 2009)
Western Finance Association Annual Conference (WFA 2009)
China International Conference in Finance (CICF 2008, two papers; 2016, 2019, 2021)
Financial Management Association Annual Conference (FMA 2006 two papers, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014)
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Note: * Presentation done by co-authors
MEDIA COVERAGE
Stony Brook Media Group Halftime Report, "Financial Literacy Interview", February 5, 2023
Newsday, "Saving, Sacrificing: How Young LIers Reach Career and Homeownership Goals," by Rachel Weiss, December 6, 2022
Stony Brook University Magazine, “Taking Care of Business,” by Liza Burby, November 11, 2022.
Newsday, "Stock Market Losses Have You Reeling? Experts Offer Tips to Cope, " by Ken Schachter, October 23, 2022.
Quantpedia, 'Are There Intraday and Overnight Seasonality Effects in China?", August 26, 2022.
George Mason University School of Business, "Even Smart Investors Get the Rainy-Day Blues," by Benjamin Kessler on November 12, 2021.
TBR Newsmedia, "Clouds Dampen Investor Reaction to Surprises," by Daniel Dunaief, July 9, 2021
SUNY Tech Forward, Fintech Edition, "Exploring the Power of Investor Psychology in Shaping Financial Market Outcomes." June, 2021
Stony Brook University News, “Taking Stock of How Weather Affects Investing,” by Robert Emproto, May 14, 2021
The FinReg Blog, Global Financial Markets Center, Duke University School of Law, "Weather, Institutional Investors, and Earnings New," by Danling Jiang, Dylan Norris, and Lin Sun, May 13, 2021
Institutional Investor, “Even the Most ‘Sophisticated’ Investors Have Rainy Days,” by Jessica Hamlin, April 28, 2021
MarketWatch, “Earnings Season is Starting. Why You Might Want to Take a Look at the Weather, Too,” by Steve Goldstein, April 14, 2021
Harvard Business Review, “Research: CEOs from Working-Class Families Support Less-Labor-Friendly Policies,” by Ramsey Khabbaz, July-August, 2020
Shanghai Securities News, “Are Stock Returns Influenced by Weather?” by Zhipeng Yan, Sept 9, 2019
Irish Times, “Is Bad Weather Bad for Stock Markets?” by Proinsias O'Mahony, Jul 31, 2018
MarketWatch, "The Stock Market Suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder Too," by Elisabeth Buchwald, June 17, 2018
The Globe and Mail, "How Does the Human Element Influence the Stock Market?," by Ian McGugan, June 12, 2018
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, “Lawyer CEOs,” 07/11/2017
Harvard Business Review, “Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs than MBAs?” 08/24/2017
Bloomberg View, “Insider Trading, Bitcoin and Libor” 08/25/2017
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, “Lawyers Make Better CEOs in Industries with High Litigation Risk (and worse CEOs elsewhere)” 08/25/2017
Going Concern, “Accounting News Roundup: Should Lawyers Run Big 4 Firms?” 08/25/2017
Global Legal Post, “Lawyers Make the Best CEOs for High-Risk Sectors” 08/25/2017
Above the Law, “Lawyers Make Better Business Leaders Than MBAs” 08/25/2017
Philadelphia Business Journal, “5 Things to Know Incl. a Study of Who Makes a Better CEO: An MBA or a Lawyer?” 08/29/2017
Marginal Revolution, “Companies Run by Lawyers (Who’s Complacent?)” 08/29/2017
Law.com, “When Lawyers are CEOs, Good Things Happen (Most of the Time)”, 07/12/2017
Law.com, “Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs? Yes! Er, Maybe.” 10/13/2017
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, “Political Values, Culture, and Corporate Litigation,” 1/21/2016
Traders Magazine, “How the Call-Put Implied Volatility Spread Options Trade Can be Profitable,” 2/18/2016
Darwin Investing Network, “How the Call-Put Implied Volatility Spread Options Trade Can be Profitable,” 2/22/2016
CFA Digest, “Call-Put Implied Volatility Spreads and Option Returns,” 2014, 24(6)
PRnewswire.com, “Firms’ Political Affiliation Predicts Likelihood of It Facing Certain Legal Woes, Says University of Miami Study,” 8/20/2012
IndexInvestor.com, “Financial Advisors’ Corner: Personality, Risk Tolerance, and Adaptation to Loss,” 11/2010
ProfessorBainbridge.com, “Republican Corporate Managers Adopt Conservative Corporate Policies,” 11/30/2010
Outlook Business Magazine, “An Analysis of Analysts,” 11/27/2010