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Sean Cao
Sean Cao
Cochair RFS FinTech conferences with RFS editorial team: Itay Goldstein and Manju Puri See RFS website
Deliver AI keynote talks around the world with Oliver Hart (Nobel Laureate) and other interesting Innovators
I co-chair FinTech conferences with Review of Financial Studies
I co-chair FinTech conferences with Review of Financial Studies
with dual submission option to RFS
Sponsoring Editors of the RFS: Itay Goldstein (University of Pennsylvania) and Manju Puri (Duke University); Submission deadline: October 25, 2021 (Email me if any questions)
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RFS website: http://rfssfs.org/news/2022-gsu-rfs-fintech-conference/
SSRN announcement at https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/janda/announcement/?id=9160
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I provide service as
I provide service as
Management Science, Guest Associate Editor
Grant reviewer for national foundations:
Evaluating Fintech Chair Professorship for the Canada Research Chairs Program
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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Research Awards for FinTech, AI and Machine Learning
Award recipient of Deloitte Initiative for AI and Learning for developing trustworthy AI for social equity and climate change
Fama-DFA Prize for the best paper published in Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of capital markets and asset pricing (with coauthors), From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses
Michael J. Brennan Award for the best paper published in Review of Financial Studies (with coauthors), How to Talk When Machines are Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI
PanAgora Asset Management’s Dr. Richard A. Crowell Memorial Prize (with coauthors), Visual Information and AI Divide: Evidence from Corporate Executive Presentations.”
For those intrigued by the application of AI in extracting trading signals from corporate production pictures, we invite you to explore this research. Additionally, our paper delves into documenting the potential AI divide among various investor groups.
American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Best paper award winner (with coauthors), From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses, 2022 Midwest Finance Association
Best Paper Award Winner (with coauthors), From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses, 2022 Global AI Finance Conference
Best Paper Award Winner in Asset Pricing (with coauthors), From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses, 2022 SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific Conference
Keynote speeches for FinTech, AI and Machine Learning
Keynote Speaker for Beyond Compliance: Reimagining Corporate Governance in the Age of AI with (Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate and Alex Edmans, Author of Grow the Pie), Saudi Arabia, December 2024
Short Keynote Speaker for 5th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF'24) at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, November 2024
Panel Speaker for U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, IOSCO, FINRA Conference, Pannel session: “Regulation and AI in financial service”, New York City, September 2024
Keynote Speaker for European Financial Management "Merton H. Miller" Doctoral Special Session: “AI and Finance” at Lisbon School of Economics and Management (IESG), July 2024
Keynote Speaker for "Applications of AI Tools for Governance Research" at Indiana University, The Kelley Institute for Corporate Governance (Kelley ICG), May 2023
Keynote Speaker for Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (PBFJ) special issue conference on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Corporate Finance”, December 2023.
Keynote Speaker for “Machine Learning, AI and FinTech in Capital Market” at Central Bank of Thailand and Stock Exchange of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2023
Panel Speaker at “2023 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence”
Panel Speaker at the Academy of Management conference for “Textual and Voice Analysis for CEO Traits and Emotion: Challenges and Future Research Directions”, August 2022
Free AI Textbook Download
Free AI Textbook Download
Click for the overview of the free AI textbook
Textbook for download:
· PDF version: Analytics for Finance and Accounting: Data Structures and Applied AI
· Tutorial videos: Click the link to watch videos for each chapter. Each chapter of the textbook includes tutorial videos designed for both instructors and students.
Slides for download
Python tutorial for web crawling and fundamental textual analysis:
· Applying GPT: analyzing conference call transcripts using both API and web interface
The textbook has gained recognition and adoption in universities worldwide, serving as a valuable resource for undergraduate, master's, and PH.D. courses. Notable institutions, such as the University of Maryland, Indiana University, UT Dallas, and University of Minnesota.
If you prefer a paperback or Kindle version, you can get it from Amazon.com:
Free AI Videos on Industry AI adoption, Academic Research, and Accessible Tools
By invitations, I develop One-week research workshops on Machine Learning, AI and FinTech for PhD students and junior faculty
By invitations, I develop One-week research workshops on Machine Learning, AI and FinTech for PhD students and junior faculty
invited by
invited by
U.S. Universities: Rice University, Harvard, Indiana University, University of Minnesota, UT Dallas
International: Lancaster University, the Finnish doctoral program (KATAJA), KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology -한국과학기술원
Part 1: Overview of Academic Research and Industry Adoption
Video: AI in Academic Research and Industry Adoption
Part 2: Examples of Academic Research
Video: Examples of academic research in AI, FinTech and ML
Video: How to generate (positive screen) and eliminate ideas (negative screen)
Part 3: AI tools and data for Research
Video: Overview of AI Textbook for Tools and Big Data
Click for the press release and overview of the free AI textbook
Video: Applied LLM as Research Assistants to construct replicable text variables
Video: Applied LLM for Research: Exploring Prompt Engineering and Parameter-Efficient Tuning
Video: Forward-looking bias of using LLM: the Nature of Problems and Potential Solutions
Video: Interpretable Methods for LLMs, NLP, ML
Video: DeepSeek, Grid Search / Parameter Tuning
Video: Introduction to Knowledge Graph
Part 4: LLM and AI for Teaching
Video: build an AI teaching assistant for automating learning in financial statement analysis
· See more Tutorial Videos on YouTube
· Chinese version on Bilibili
How to Generate Ideas for AI Research?
Shared readings for Ph.D. students: Drawing Insights from Ph.D. seminars at Rice University, Harvard, Indiana University, University of Minnesota,
Shared readings for Ph.D. students: Drawing Insights from Ph.D. seminars at Rice University, Harvard, Indiana University, University of Minnesota,
(download here)
(download here)
Coverage for Research
Coverage for Research
Regulatory:
SEC Conference on Financial Market Regulation link
PCAOB/JAR conference 2018 link
Federal Reserve Bank Conference for Financial Stability link
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digest link
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Big Data conference link
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Artificial Intelligence conference link
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Blockchain conference link
Media:
Financial Times link
CNBC link
The Guardian link
Quartz link
Columbia University Blue Sky Blog on corporations and capital markets link
University of Oxford Business Law Blog link
Duke University Global Financial Markets Center link
University of Chicago Booth Review link
Multiple commentaries invited by Wallethub.com
Selected FinTech, AI and Disclosure Works
Selected FinTech, AI and Disclosure Works
How to Talk When Machines are Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI , Review of Financial Studies
- Presentation at Stockholm Business School (discussant: Tim Loughran) Video Link
- Presentation at Wolfe Investment Research Video in English , Video in Chinese
Expert Network Calls (by hedge funds)
Negative Peer Disclosure. Journal of Financial Economics
Copycat Skills and Disclosure Costs: Evidence from Peer Companies’ Digital Footprints, Journal of Accounting Research
Technological Peer Pressure and Product Disclosure. The Accounting Review
Labor Market Benefit of Disaggregated Disclosure. Contemporary Accounting Research
Skin in the Game: Operating Growth, Firm Performance, and Future Stock Returns. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Reexamining Growth Effects: Are All Types of Asset Growth the Same? Contemporary Accounting Research
Earnings volatility, post–earnings announcement drift, and trading frictions. Journal of Accounting Research
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