Fan Yu is the Gordon C. Bjork Professor of Financial Economics and a George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He holds an Honours BSc in Physics from McMaster University in Canada and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University. Previously, he was an associate professor at Michigan State University, an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a full-time visitor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Yu's research on credit and operational risk was funded by Moody’s and the FDIC, and has appeared in top journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Accounting Review, Management Science, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Mathematical Finance. Prior to his academic career in finance, he studied physics at Nanjing, McMaster, and Harvard Universities. As an undergraduate, he won the Lloyd G. Elliott First Prize in the Canadian Association of Physicists Prize Examination. Professor Yu enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking.