I am a PhD Candidate in Finance at the University of Hong Kong Business School.
I received my master's degree at the University of Chicago and my bachelor's degree at Oberlin College.
My research interests are in sustainable finance, financial technology, and corporate finance.
Contact: jzhang88@connect.hku.hk
Presented at: FMA PhD Consortium (2025), Massey Sustainable Finance Conference (2025), AFBC (2025), The University of Hong Kong (2025)
with Dragon Tang
Presented at (*by coauthor): CICF (2025*), GRASFI (2025), CSBF (2025), IRF 2025 Conference (2025), HKU Governance and Sustainability PhD Workshop (2025), Harbin Institute of Technology (2025*), Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (2025*), Sun Yat-sen University (2025*), University of Hong Kong (2024), and the University of Science and Technology of China (2025*).
Invited for resubmission at the Journal of Empirical Finance
Presented at: SWUFE International Conference on Green Finance and ESG (2025), CFRI & CIRF (2023), University of Hong Kong (2023)
with Dragon Tang
Presented at: AFA Poster (2024), AsianFA PhD Consortium (2024), AFBC (2023), SoFiE (2023)
Nature Climate Change, 2025, 15 (3), 244-245
A Hierarchical Explainable Deep Network for Corporate Performance Prediction
FedTC: Reinforcement Learning–Guided Trust Calibration for Robust Federated Aggregation
with M. Yang, Z. Sun, M. Zuo, K. Zhao, and Y. Wang
Submitted to the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)