Honors and Awards
2025 AFBC CFA Institute’s Best Paper on Sustainable Investment
2023 PwC 3535 Finance Forum Best Paper Award (2 papers)
2023 FMA European Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance & Financial Institutions
Lee Kong Chian Fellow, 2022–2023
2022 FIRN Annual Conference Best Paper Prize
2021 GRASFI Best Asset Pricing Paper Prize
2020 Crowell Memorial Prize (2nd prize), PanAgora Asset Management Academic Competition
2019 Hillcrest Behavioural Finance Award (Honorable Mention)
2019 WRDS Advanced Research Scholar Program Best Paper Award
Research Paper Award for 26th Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets
2017 Asian Finance Association Best Paper Award
2016 AFBC PhD Forum Best Paper Award (first prize)
2016 FMA Asia Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing/Investments
2016 CICF Best Paper Award
Second Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance (Asia) Academic Competition, 2015
Overseas Research Awards for PhD students, HKUST, 2015–2016
2× Dean’s Scholarship for Research Excellence, HKUST, 2014–2015, 2016–2017
Selected Media Mentions
My research has been discussed in a variety of media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and The Business Times:
Betting Against Short Sellers, The Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2015)
Days-to-cover Short Interest as a Stock Return Predictor, CXO advisory group (March 16, 2015)
Pay attention to who’s shorting your ETF, Citywire (Sep 20, 2016)
Strategy idea: Short Sell High-DTC Stocks, Go Long Low-DTC Stocks, AllAboutAlpha (March 06, 2016)
Are Sell-side Analysts' Recommendation Useful? CFA Society Singapore (Nov 20, 2018)
Do foreign institutional investors deter insider trading? Canadian Investment Review (Sep 26, 2019)
Independence and objectivity, The Business Times (Sep 28, 2019)
Wu Zhijian's Evidentialist Channel (伍志坚证据主义对话): 如何用宏观经济指标预测股价变动?
How hedge fund shorting triggered the USO’s epic AUM growth, Financial Times (April 23, 2020)
《清华金融评论》： “分析师将价格推向何方?”
Academic Insights on Investing: Do Analysts Exploit Factor Anomalies when recommending stocks?
Alpha Architect: Do Analysts Exploit Factor Anomalies when recommending stocks?
Mondato Insight: Can Climate Fintech Lift Emerging Economies? (April 21, 2021)
Warrington Newsroom: Pandemic-induced challenges widened the gender gap for female analysts, research finds (August 3, 2021)
Advisor Perspectives: The Price Investors Paid for Owning Bonds of “Brown” Companies (June 7, 2021)
ABFER Research Digest: Climate Change and CSR: Awareness, responsibility, and active consumers and investors (October 2021)
THE SRI CHRONICLESS (December 2021)
Alpha Architect: Can Market Maker Capital Constraints Result in Mispricing of ETFs? (April 18, 2022)
ESSEC-Amundi Chair Reearch Letter #12: Climate Risk and the Bond Market (May 2022)
SMU City Perspectives: People Power: Why Businesses Listen to Consumers When Making ESG Decisions