Research

1. "Trading on Government Contracts: The Investment Potential of Public Procurement Awards," Sole-authored.

Economics Letters, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112335

2. "Dissecting the return-predicting power of risk-neutral variance," with Zhongjin Lu.

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2025.107409

• Based on the 2nd chapter of my Ph.D. thesis at UGA.

• Presented: FMA 2022 Annual Meeting; SFA 2023 Annual Meeting.

3. "Beyond Green Labels: Assessing Mutual Funds’ ESG Commitments through Large Language Models," with Katherine Wood and Hieu Pham. 

Finance Research Letters, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.106713

1. • Presented: Atlanta Rising Scholar Symposium in Finance 2022.

4. "Synchronous Social Media and the Stock Market," Sole-authored.

Journal of Financial Markets, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.finmar.2024.100915

• • Based on the 1st chapter of my Ph.D. thesis at UGA.

• Awards: 

  • • UAH College of Business Best Paper Research Award 2025

    • Top 5 Doctoral Paper by Midwest Finance Association 2022 (Doctoral Symposium Invitee)

• Featured in Matt Levine's Money Stuff Bloomberg newsletter (April 19, 2022, link)

• Featured in the book “The Trolls of Wall Street: How the Outcasts and Insurgents Are Hacking the Markets,” by Nathaniel Popper.

• Featured in Policygenius (June 23, 2022, link)

• Featured in WellingonWallSt. April 2022 Issue (link)

• SSRN paper link (old version)

• Presented: AFA 2022 Annual Meeting Ph.D. Student Poster Session; MFA 2022 Doctoral Symposium; MFA 2022 Annual Meeting; SWFA 2022 Annual Meeting; Atlanta Area Finance Ph.D. Brown Bag 2021. 

• This paper was previously circulated under the title "Social Media Group Investing"

5. "The Wikipedia Effect: Analyzing Investor Attention for Strategic Investment Decisions," Sole-authored.

Economics Letters, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111836

6. "Integrating NLP Tools in Corporate Governance:  A Study of Disclosure Effectiveness," Sole-authored.

Applied Economics Letters, 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504851.2024.2363995

7. "Documenting the Post-2000 Decline in the Idiosyncratic Volatility Effect," Sole-authored.

Critical Finance Review, 2021. 10:3, 419-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/104.00000095

8. "Capital Allocation for a Sum of Dependent Compound Mixed Poisson Variables: A Recursive Algorithm Approach," with Joseph H. T. Kim and Jiwook Jang.

North American Actuarial Journal, 2019. 23:1, 82-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/10920277.2018.1506705

1. "Behind the Glitz: Unveiling the Charisma and Dynamics of Celebrity-backed SPACs," with Xu Tian.

• Presented: SWFA 2022 Annual Meeting; FMA 2021 Annual Meeting; WFBS 2021.

• Awards: University of Georgia Graduate School Travel Grant Award 

2. "Twitter Follower Growth: Social Media Engagement as Investment Indicators"

3. "Trading with Congress: Analyzing First-Mover Advantage and Post-Trade Opportunities"

   • Presented: Vietnam Symposium in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation 2025.

4. Several other papers early stage...