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
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
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
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 materials for download if you are interested in applied AI
How to Generate Ideas, Eliminate Weak Ones, and Focus on High-Quality Ones to Save Time in the Editorial Process
Shared readings for Ph.D. students: Drawing Insights from Ph.D. seminars at Emory, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, and UT Dallas (download here)
Exploring the Art of Generating and Assessing Research Ideas
Free AI textbook download (See Links in the Sections Below)
Free AI Videos on Industry AI adoption, Academic Research, and Accessible Tools (See Links in the Sections Below)
Free AI Textbook Download
Click for the overview of the free AI textbook
Textbook for download
· Analytics for Finance and Accounting: Data Structures and Applied AI
· Tutorial videos are available: Click the link in the table of contents. 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.
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
invited by
U.S. Universities: University of Maryland, Indiana University, UT Dallas, University of Minnesota (Accounting and Finance)
· Video 1a: Outlook of Fintech and AI research
· Video 1b: Overview of free textbook for AI and big data analytics
Click for the overview of the free AI textbook
· Video 2a: Applied LLM for Research: Exploring Prompt Engineering and Parameter-Efficient Tuning
· Video 3: Examples of using AI in Academic Research
· Video 4: Examples using Word Embedding, Google BERT, GPT, and Interpretable language model
· Video 5: Introduction to Knowledge Graph
· See more Tutorial Videos on YouTube
· Chinese version on Bilibili
International:
the Finnish doctoral program (KATAJA), Chinese University of Hong Kong (Accounting + Finance PhDs)
KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology -한국과학기술원
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
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