2023/02-2024/12: Associate Professor (Reader) of Finance, at University of Exeter Business School, UK.

2018/06-2023/01: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) of Finance, at University of Liverpool Management School, UK.

2021/09-2023/01: Director of Studies, Accounting and Finance PhD programme, at University of Liverpool Management School, UK

2016/07-2018/05: Lecturer in Finance, at School of Management, University of Bradford, UK.

2013/07-2016/06: Postdoc Researcher, Research and teaching oriented, at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden.

2010/06-2013/06: Research Fellow, Project and teaching oriented (one of the main contributors to the Credit Research Initiative), at Risk Management Institute (RMI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.

2007–2011: Ph.D. in Finance, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, FJ, China.

2007–2009: Visiting Ph.D. student (Research Scholar), Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

2005–2007 :Master program in Finance, The Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University, Xiamen, FJ, China.

1998–2002: B.A., School of Economics & Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, JS, China.

16. The Trade Imbalance Network and Currency Returns (forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics with Ai Jun Hou and Lucio Sarno, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4534287) 

15. Do Oil Price Forecast Disagreement of Survey of Professional Forecasters Predict Crude Oil Return Volatility? (with Anton Hasselgren, Ai Jun Hou, Sandy Suardi, and Caihong Xu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4683784) International Journal of Forecasting, Volume 41, Issue 1, January–March 2025, Pages 141-152

14. On the (Almost) Stochastic Dominance of Cryptocurrency Factor Portfolios & Implications for Cryptocurrency Asset Pricing (with Weihao Han, David Newton, Emmanouil Platanakis, and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3857315) European Financial Management, Volume30, Issue3, June 2024, Pages 1125-1164.

13. Product market competition, labor mobility, and the cross-section of stock returns (with Shamim Ahmed and Ziwen Bu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3588433) Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2023, Pages 440–480

12. Illiquidity, R&D investment, and stock returns (forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, with Shamim Ahmed and Ziwen Bu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3675865)

11. Credit Derivatives and Corporate Default Prediction (with Fan Yu and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3578188), Journal of Banking and Finance, Volume 138, May 2022, 106418

10. Hedge Fund Strategies, Performance & Diversification: A Portfolio Theory & Stochastic Discount Factor Approach (with David Newton, Emmanouil Platanakis, Dimitrios Stafylas and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3388184) British Accounting Review, September 2021, Volume 53, Issue 5, 101000

9. Horses for Courses: Mean-Variance for Asset Allocation and 1/N for Stock Selection (with Emmanouil Platanakis and Charles Sutcliffe, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3372334) European Journal of Operational Research, January 2021, Volume 288, Issue 1, Pages 302-317. Lead article in 'Innovative Applications of O.R.'

8. How Does the Stock Market View Bank Regulatory Capital Forbearance Policies? (with Van Son Lai, available online at http://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2536017) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 52, Issue 8, December 2020, Pages 1873-1907. Lead article 

7. Unifying Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models from an Heath-Jarrow-Morton Perspective (with Haitao Li and Fan Yu, forthcoming version available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2817599) European Journal of Operational Research, November 2020, Volume 286, Issue 3, Pages 1153-1167

6. Are Market Views on Banking Industry Useful for Forecasting Economic Growth? (with Van Son Lai and Lu Zhao, available online at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3273429) Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, October 2019, Volume 57, 101082

5. Modeling Municipal Yields with (and without) Bond Insurance (with Albert Lee Chun, Ethan Namvar, and Fan Yu, available online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2672364) Management Science, August 2019, Volume 65, Issue 8, Pages 3694–3713

4. Exploring Mispricing in the Term Structure of CDS Spreads (with Robert Jarrow, Haitao Li, and May Hu, available online at https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2686284) Review of Finance, February 2019, Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 161–198

3. Counter-Credit-Risk Yield Spreads: A Puzzle in China’s Corporate Bond Market (with Jian Luo and May Hu, online appendix), International Review of Finance, June 2016, Volume 16, Issue 2, pages 203–241 

2. Optimizing Enterprise Risk Management (with Yongrok Choi, Amanda Luo, and Lu Zhao),  Annals of Operations Research, February 2016, Volume 237, Issue 1–2, pp 281–300

1. A New Approach to Measuring Market Expectations and Term Premia, Journal of Fixed Income, Spring 2015, Vol. 24, No. 4: pp. 22-46

Generalized Black-Litterman with Decision Fusion (with Xinyu Huang, Massimo Guidolin, David P. Newton, and Emmanouil Platanakis, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4395771)

Global Trade Network and Term Premia Dynamics (with Ai Jun Hou and Caihong Xu, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4182576)

Commodity Inflation Risk Premium: Evidence from the Cross-Section of Commodity Futures (with Ai Jun Hou, Emmanouil Platanakis, and Guofu Zhou, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4213690)

Voluntary Disclosures and Climate Change Uncertainty: Evidence from CDS Premiums (with Michael B. Imerman and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4168250) R&R at Journal of Corporate Finance

Informational Friction, Economic Uncertainty, and CDS-Bond Basis (with Charlie X. Cai and Ran Zhao, available online at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3746637)

Term Structure, Market Expectations of the Short Rate, and Expected Inflation (with Jian Luo) In: Mili M., Samaniego Medina R., di Pietro F. (eds) New Methods in Fixed Income Modeling. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham, August 2018

• CFRC, Beijing, China (Jul. 2024)

• WFA, Honolulu, US (Jun. 2024)

• Frontiers of Factor Investing, Lancaster, UK (Apr. 2024)

• SUFE, Shanghai, China (Apr. 2024)

• WISE XMU, Xiamen, China (Apr. 2024)

• XJTLU, Suzhou, China (Mar. 2024)

• QBS QUB, Belfast, UK (Mar. 2024)

• BoC 13th Workshop on Exchange Rates, Ottawa, Canada (Dec. 2023)

• BAFA NAG Conference, Liverpool, UK (Sep. 2023), 

• Bank of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania (Sep. 2023)

• RES 2023 Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK (Apr. 2023)

• The 19th Chinese Finance Annual Meeting, Shanghai, China (Oct. 2022, remotely)

• MMF, Kent, UK (Sep. 2022)

• University of Bath School of Management, Bath, UK (Jul. 2022, remotely)

• University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK (Jul. 2022) 

• NZFM, Auckland, New Zealand (Dec. 2021, remotely) 

• FMA Conference on Derivatives and Volatility, Chicago, US (Nov. 2021, remotely)

• FMA Annual Meeting, Denver, US (Oct. 2021, remotely)

• The 52nd Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society, Cambridge, UK (Sep. 2021, remotely)

• The 37th International Conference of the French Finance Association - AFFI (May 2021, remotely)

• ICMA Centre, University of Reading (Apr. 2021, remotely)

• Eastern Finance Association 2021 Annual Meeting (Apr. 2021, remotely)

• Durham University Business School (Feb. 2021, remotely)

• The 3rd Greater China Area Finance Conference (GCFC) 2020, Xiamen, China (Dec. 2020, remotely)

• BAFA: Corporate Finance and Asset Pricing Conference 2019, Manchester, UK (Sep. 2019, session chair and one paper)

• The 12th International Accounting & Finance Doctoral Symposium, Milan, Italy (Jun. 2019, faculty discussant)

• 2017 China International Risk Forum, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (Dec. 2017)

• The 49th Money, Macro and Finance Research Group Annual Conference, King's College London, UK (Sep. 2017)

• WISE, Xiamen University, China (Dec. 2015)

• Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (Nov. 2015)

• FMA 2015 Annual Conference, Orlando, USA (Oct. 2015, two discussions)

• Fourth International Conference on Credit Analysis and Risk Management, Basel, Switzerland (Aug. 2015) 

• Ninth Annual Risk Management Conference, Singapore (Jul. 2015, two papers)

• China International Conference in Finance, Shenzhen, China (Jul. 2015)

• Finance Workshop at School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Nov. 2014)

• China International Conference in Finance, Chengdu, China (Jul. 2014)

• International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society, Guildford, UK (Jun. 2014)

• Financial Markets & Corporate Governance Conference, Brisbane, Australia (Apr. 2014)

• AIDEA Bicentenary conference, Banking and Finance Track, Lecce, Italy (Sep. 2013)

• Fourth Joint BIS-World Bank Public Investors Conference, Washington DC, USA (Dec. 2012)

• Joint Credit Risk Workshop with National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (Apr. 2012)

• Workshop in Fixed Income and Bond Markets, Xiamen University, China (Oct. 2011)

• Fifth Annual Risk Management Conference, Singapore (Jul. 2011, discussion)

• Young Researchers Workshop on Finance(invited speaker), Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan (Mar. 2011)

• RMI Special Seminar, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Apr. 2010)

• WISE Young Scholars Forum, Xiamen University, China (Nov. 2009)

Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius foundation (P19-0264), "International trade networks and financial asset prices" led by Ai Jun Hou, 2019 - 2022

Pump Priming Research Fund, University of Liverpool Management School, 2019

Pump Priming Research Fund for Junior Researchers, Bradford School of Management, 2017

Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation MMW 2015.0007, "Credit Ratings and Risk with Correlation Structure" led by Desheng Wu, 2016 - 2019

2010/01–03: Senior Quant Analyst (Internship), Haitong Futures Co.,Ltd, Shanghai, China.

2002–2004: Marketing Analyst, LG Electronics(Tianjin) appliance Co.,Ltd, Tianjin, China.