Hao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) & Università della Svizzera italiana (USI, Lugano). He holds a master's degree from the University of Amsterdam and a bachelor's degree from Shandong University.
His research interests include asset pricing, financial econometrics, machine learning, and AI. Currently, he is working on projects that combine econometrics with deep learning to solve big data problems in empirical asset pricing.
Hao currently serves as a referee for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, the Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Financial Econometrics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and Economics Letters.
Contact: hao.ma@qmul.ac.uk