KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

（Listed in alphabetical order of surname)

Riccardo Colacito, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Riccardo (Ric) Colacito is an expert in international finance, financial econometrics, model uncertainty, and climate change, with papers published in top-tier journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Finance. Dr. Colacito serves as the faculty director of the Center for Excellence in Investment Management at UNC. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).He has been the editor for Review of Asset Pricing Studies and on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Empirical Finance, among others

Shiyang Huang, The University of Hong Kong

Shiyang Huang is a Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Head of the Department of Finance at HKU Business School. He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A) and the University of Hong Kong Outstanding Young Scholar Award. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the internationally renowned journals Journal of Financial Markets and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. He has published 19 papers in leading international journals , including Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Dacheng Xiu, The University of Chicago

Dacheng Xiu is Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His current research focuses on developing machine learning solutions to big-data problems in empirical finance. He has served as Co-Editor for the Journal of Financial Econometrics and has been on the editorial board as an Associate Editor for many prestigious journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics, and Management Science. He has received several recognitions for his research, including the Fellow of the Society for Financial Econometrics, and Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics.

Jun Yu, University of Macau

Jun Yu is currently UMDF chair Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Macau and Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau. He has published many papers in leading journals in finance and economics. His articles for detecting the presence of asset price bubbles and estimating their origination and termination dates have initiated a new area of research on the econometric analysis of bubbles in financial assets and real estate. Professor Yu is an inaugural fellow of the Society of Financial Econometrics and a fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Theory.

Xiaoyan Zhang, Tsinghua University

Xiaoyan Zhang is the Xinyuan Chair Professor of Finance and Associate Dean at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. Professor Zhang’s research interests include Chinese capital market, Fintech, empirical asset pricing, and international finance. Many of her works have been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and other top tier academic journals, and she has won multiple best paper awards. She is appointed as co-editor at Journal of Banking and Finance, and associate editor at Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Empirical Finance, and Financial Management.