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I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. My expertise is in corporate finance, risk management, law and economics, and AI applications in finance. I teach corporate finance to undergraduate, Executive MBA, and PhD students. I also developed a course on deep learning applications in finance for undergraduate and graduate students. I received 2008 JPMorganChase Young Researcher Award (Review of Financial Studies), 2013 Brattle Group First Prize (Journal of Finance), and 2017 William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research (Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis). My articles appeared in academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. I received my Ph.D. in Finance from Columbia University. Prior to joining the faculty at the Eli Broad College of Business, I was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame.

Curriculum Vitae

Research (Selected Publications)

Financial Reform and Public Good Provision: Municipal Bankruptcy Law and the Financing of Hospitals (with Stefano Rossi), Management Science, 2022, Accepted for publication.

Industrial Electricity Usage and Stock Returns (with Zhi Da and Dayong Huang), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017, Vol. 52(1): 37-69. William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Financial Research: best paper in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2017).

Risk Management and Firm Value: Evidence from Weather Derivatives (with Francisco Pérez-González), Journal of Finance, 2013, Vol. 68, No. 5, 2143­–2176.

Brattle Group Prize (First Prize): best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance (2013).

The Choice of Corporate Liquidity and Corporate Governance

Review of Financial Studies, 2009, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp.1447–1475.

JPMorgan Young Researcher Prize from the Review of Financial Studies (2008).

Teaching

FI414. Advanced Business Finance (MSU, Undergraduate)

FI424. Deep Learning and Neural Networks in Finance

YunSsam Deep Learning in Finance

FI444. Entrepreneurial Finance (Undergrad)

FI824. Deep Learning and Neural Networks in Finance (MSU, Graduate)

FI869. Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital (MS, MBA)

FI870. Venture Capital and Private Equity (MS, MBA)

FI981. Corporate Finance Theory (MSU, PhD)

PIM873a. Current Business Issues in Finance (MSU, EMBA)

Corporate Governance (ND, Undergraduate)

Financial Contracting and Investor Protection (ND, MBA)