Teaching

Current Course Offerings 

FIN 539 Investment Analysis (MBA and MSF) Spring  (Sample Syllabus,)

Students will learn the basic knowledge of the financial markets, financial instruments, and financial institutions and acquire the quantitative skills to analyze problems about the risk-return trade-off, portfolio optimization, and hedging. 

FIN 578 Behavioral Finance (MBA and MSF) Fall  (Sample Syllabus)

Students will obtain a broad understanding and strong working knowledge about normal investors' wants and investors' cognitive and emotional errors, and acquire the quantitative skills to analyze problems about debt and savings, retirement planning, behavioral portfolio construction, behavioral-finance-based trading strategies.  Topics on socially responsible investing, professional ethics and ESG, climate and sustainable finance, blockchain and decentralized finance are also introduced.

BUS 355 Investment Analysis (Undergraduate) Spring  (Sample Syllabus

Students will learn the basic knowledge of the financial markets, financial instruments, and financial institutions and acquire the quantitative skills to analyze problems about the risk-return trade-off. 

ITS 102 Your Money, Your Future (First-Year Undergraduate) Spring 

Students will learn to spend wisely, and save and invest early to achieve big financial goals for their future. Topics include the understanding and management of expenses, debts, savings, and investments using various financial instruments and frontier financial technology.

FIN 580 Finance Research Practicum (MSF) Spring 2018  (Co-Instructor)

Students will work on practical research projects proposed by practitioners in financial industry and acquire valuable experience to solve real business problems in finance industry.

Online Seminars: Asset Pricing Research (YouTube Video)

Online Seminars: Behavioral Finance Empirical Research (YouTube Videos)

Previous Course Offerings at Various Universities

Doctoral Seminars, College of Business, Florida State University

Instructor, FIN 5935, Asset Pricing Theory, Spring 2010, Spring 2012~2016

• Co-Instructor, FIN 5935, Asset Pricing Theory, Fall 2007~2008, Spring 2011

Masters Courses  (MBA and MSF)

Instructor, Investment Analysis, College of Business, Stony Brook University, Fall 2016, Spring 2018-2019 

• Instructor, Behavioral Finance, College of Business, Stony Brook University, Spring 2017, Fall 2017-2019

• Instructor, Asset Pricing and Behavioral Finance, School of Business, Nanjing University (China), Summer 2015

• Instructor, Financial Economics, School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University (China), Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017

• Co-Instructor, Finance Research Practicum, College of Business, Stony Brook University, Spring 2017

Undergraduate Courses 

Instructor, ITS 102, Your Money, Your Future (First-year undergraduate seminar), Stony Brook University, Spring 2018, 2019

Instructor, FIN 4504, Investments (Senior level), College of Business, Florida State University, Fall 2006~2015, Spring 2008

• Instructor, FIN 4504, Principles of Corporate Finance (Junior level), Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Fall 2003