Teaching

[Teaching Statement]

Teaching Philosophy - SEED

• S for Simplicity

  • Focus on the most essential concepts first, to help students get the big picture.

• E for Expressivity

  • Abstract concepts/methodologies can be facilitated with animations/metaphors to get the idea quickly.

• E for Explicity

  • Provide clear reasoning and intuition for classic economic mechanisms/econometric properties.

• D for Depth

  • Connect to cutting-edge academic and industry implications by mapping with latest real-life practice.

Latest Teaching: HKUST FINA 5250 Empirical Methods in Finance

Core course of MSc in Finance program at HKUST

• Course Syllabus (2026 Fall)

Teaching Evaluation

• evaluation response rate: 65.9% (87 out of 132 students, across two sections)

• course satisfaction: 4.83/5 instructor satisfaction: 4.95/5

  • weighted average across two sections

Selected Student Feedback

• "Instructor Fan's English is excellent, and it made the lectures very comfortable to listen to."

• "The teaching style is interesting"; "Excellent professor. I learned a lot."

• "I really appreciate professor's teaching for the empirical method course. Even without prior relevant background from my undergraduate studies, I can easily follow the lectures. Professor explain concepts in a very clear‑cut way and lay out the logical structure coherently, which makes otherwise challenging empirical content much more approachable. Thank you for the great instruction."

• "Professor FAN did a really great job, and he is very kind to us! Thanks!"

• "It's an honor of me to be his first batch of students and I believe he will be very welcomed by the students in the in his following careers, he does a very good job in. Both preparing the lectures and answering my questions"

• "Good teaching practices: highly efficient interaction with students and passionate lauguage"

Selected Class Photos