Ling QIN (秦玲)
Assistant Professor
Ling QIN (秦玲)
Assistant Professor
Email: qinling@shanghaitech.edu.cn lingqin597@gmail.com
Address: S313, School of Creativity & Arts
ShanghaiTech University
Shanghai, China
Research Interests
Stochastic control problem; Financial engineering; Financial modeling;
Corporate finance; Climate finance; Cryptocurrencies; Fintech
Education
2017-2022 Ph.D. Quantitative Finance, National University of Singapore
2013-2017 B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China
Working Experience
2025.8-present Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, ShanghaiTech University
2023.7-2025.8 Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Financial Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022.7-2023.7 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021.8-2022.7 Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Paper
Lifetime Portfolio and Consumption Choice with Defined Contribution Plans (with Min Dai , Shuaijie Qian, and Jing Xu), Finance and Stochastics, Forthcoming
Working Papers
Bitcoin Mining and Climate Damage (with Min Dai, Steven Kou, and Shuaijie Qian), submitted
What Drives Corporate Savings? (with Nan Chen, Xavier Giroud, and Neng Wang)
Pandemic-Induced Innovation: Preference Shocks, Productivity Gains, and the Stock Market Rally (with Hong Liu)
Optimal Decentralized Exchange (dex) Convexity (with Nan Chen and Zhou Yang)
Conference Presentations
Bitcoin Mining and Climate Damage (with Min Dai, Steven Kou, and Shuaijie Qian)
Conference on the Recent Advances on Quantitative Finance, Hong Kong, 2023
Bachelier World Congress, Virtual, 2022
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 2022
The Fourteenth Annual Risk Management Conference, Singapore, 2021
Analytics for X Conference, Singapore, 2021
Life-time Portfolio and Consumption Choice with Defined Contribution Plans (with Min Dai, Shuaijie Qian, and Jing Xu)
Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, China, 2024
Conference on the Recent Advances on Quantitative Finance, Hong Kong, 2023
Corporate Investment and Savings Demand (with Nan Chen, Xavier Giroud, and Neng Wang)
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2024
What Drives Corporate Savings? (with Nan Chen, Xavier Giroud, and Neng Wang)
SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering, Miami, 2025
On-Going Projects
Corporate Investment, Financing, and Liquidity Management (with Min Dai, Wei Jiang, and Neng Wang)
The Motives: Understanding the Coexistence of Cash and Debt Holdings in Firms (with Nan Chen and Neng Wang)
Artificial Intelligence and Climate Damage (with Steven Kou and Shuaijie Qian)
The Economics of Venture Capital Financing (with Neng Wang)
Multi-asset Portfolio Selection with Fixed Transaction Costs and Capital Gains Tax (with Min Dai)
Teaching Experience (TA)
In National University of Singapore:
Mathematical Finance, Department of Mathematics
Marketing Analytics, School of Continuing and Lifelong Education
Discrete Structure, School of Computing
Structured Products, Risk Management Institute
Introductory Mathematics, Department of Mathematics
In University of Science and Technology of China:
Combinatorics, Department of Mathematics
Mathematical Analysis, Department of Mathematics
Honors and Awards
2022 Student Best Paper Award in Finance Section, Second Place, INFORMS Annual Meeting
2021 Teaching Assistant Award, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
2021 Top Graduate Tutors, The Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
2017-2021 NUS Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore
2017 Outstanding Graduate, University of Science and Technology of China
2016 & 2013 Scholarship for Outstanding Students, University of Science and Technology of China
2015 Guang Hua Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China
2014 National Encouragement Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China
2012 Silver Medal, Chinese Women's Mathematical Olympiad
2012 First Prize of Chang Sha, Chinese Physics Olympiad
2012 First Prize at the Provincial Level, National High School Mathematics League