1. Dissecting Corporate Culture Using Generative AI with Kai Li, Feng Mai, Rui Shen, and Chelsea Yang [Link]
Review of Financial Studies 2026, 39, 253–296,
2. Female Equity Analysts and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance, with Kai Li, Feng Mai, Gabriel Wong, and Chelsea Yang [Link]
Management Science 2026
Winner of the 2023 John L. Weinberg/IRRCi Research Paper Competition [Link]
3. The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Kai Li, Xing Liu, and Feng Mai [Link]
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 2021, 56, 2545-2583.
4. Racial Animus, Employment Risk, and Analyst Forecasts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Feng Gao, Yankuo Qiao, and Qinzheng Xu [Link]
The Financial Review, 2026
5. Factor-Mimicking Portfolios for Consumer Expectations Using Machine-Learning Algorithms with Junbo Wang. [Link]
Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Statistics, Technology, and Risk Management, pp. 389-412 (2025)
6. Manager Uncertainty [SSRN]
Award: Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper at Southern Finance Association Annual Conference [Link]
R&R, 3rd round, Journal of Banking and Finance
7. Generative AI and Investment Research: Evidence from Analyst Reports with Shawn Huang, Artur Hugon, and Wenting Zheng [SSRN]
Presentations: Drexel, Lehigh, FAU, Seton Hall, AI in finance conference
Rutgers Research Office Seed Funding $20,000
Submitted
8. A Tool Kit for Factor-Mimicking Portfolios, with Kuntara Pukthuanthong, Richard Roll, and Junbo Wang [SSRN]
Conditionally accepted, Journal of Banking and Finance
9. Gender and Earnings Conference Calls, with Nerissa Brown, Bill Francis, Wenyao Hu, and Thomas Shohfi [SSRN]
R&R, Contemporary Accounting Research
10. Measuring Information Quality by Topic Attention Divergence: Evidence from Earnings Calls with Zicheng Xiao [SSRN]
R&R, The Financial Review
11. Financial Disclosures and Corporate Bond Liquidity
Presentation: FMA
12. What Do Earnings Prediction Markets Know?
Presentation: AFA 2027 Special Session on Papers Written with Generative AI Workflows (scheduled)