Fintech Research Group

Members

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   Yongmiao Hong洪永淼

   Distinguished Research Fellow, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Distinguished Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

   Yongmiao Hong holds a B.S. in Physics and an M.A. in Economics from Xiamen University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Distinguished Professor at the School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of "The Econometrics Journal." He is a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the International Association for Applied Econometrics, and a Senior Fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Teaching Advisory Committee for Economics Majors under China's Ministry of Education and as an Independent Director of China Everbright Bank. Before returning to China full-time, he was the Ernest S. Liu Professor of Economics and a Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Cornell University, and has also held positions at Tsinghua University and Xiamen University. His research areas include econometrics, time series analysis, financial econometrics, and statistics. He has published over 130 papers in mainstream economics, finance, and statistics journals domestically and internationally, and authored several books in Chinese and English. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in Economics/Statistics by Elsevier for eight consecutive years.

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   Shouyang Wang汪寿阳

   Research Fellow, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director, Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences

   Distinguished Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, appointed as a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor under the Ministry of Education's Changjiang Scholars Program, recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetics Sciences. Currently, he serves as a Research Fellow at the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Center for Forecasting Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also holds the position of Vice President of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetics Sciences and serves as Editor-in-Chief or Executive Editor for 12 European and American academic journals. He has also edited special volumes or issues for over 20 international journals. Previously, he held numerous important positions, including Executive Deputy Director of the Department of Management Sciences at the National Natural Science Foundation of China. His research covers decision theory, financial systems engineering, and other fields. He has published 44 academic monographs (22 English monographs published in Europe and the US) and over 430 papers in important international journals, with over 400 indexed by SCI/SSCI. He has submitted over 300 policy research reports, some of which received instructions from national leaders. His achievements have received multiple awards, including provincial/ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards.

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   Jiajing Sun孙佳婧

   Deputy Director, Department of Statistics and Data Science, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

   Jiajing Sun, Ph.D., Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA). She obtained her Ph.D. in Management from the University of Liverpool, UK, in September 2011. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Statistics and Data Science and Deputy Director of the Teaching and Research Office at the School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She was responsible for organizing the 2022 and 2023 Asian Econometrics and Statistics Summer Schools, handling liaison with internationally renowned scholars and conference logistics. In teaching, she has received awards such as the Special Teaching Award for Young Faculty and the Outstanding Graduate Course Award for her teaching and research achievements. Several students she has supervised have received honors such as "Three-Good Student," "Outstanding Communist Youth League Member," and "Outstanding Student Cadre." In research, her papers have been published in journals including "Journal of Econometrics," "Journal of Environmental Management," "Economics Letters," "Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space," "Journal of Multivariate Analysis," "Statistical Research," and "Applied Probability and Statistics," and she has presented her research findings at numerous international conferences. She has led several National Natural Science Foundation of China projects (including the general project "Self-Normalized Time Series Analysis Based on Adjusted Sample Ranges") and participated in multiple horizontal research projects, achieving positive results in talent cultivation in financial regulation, economics, digital technology, and financial technology research.

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   Youwei Yang杨佑玮

   Chief Economist, SOLAI Limited; part-time positions at Xiamen University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Sun Yat-sen University

   Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University, USA. Currently serves as Chief Economist at SOLAI Limited (NYSE: SLAI) and holds part-time positions at Xiamen University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Sun Yat-sen University, teaching courses on financial technology and large language models and supervising graduate students. Previously served as Director of Financial Analysis and Head of Crypto Asset Research at StoneX Group (NASDAQ: SNEX), a Fortune Global 100 company. Over the past decade, he has focused on core areas of financial technology such as blockchain, big data, quantitative trading, and artificial intelligence, accumulating deep professional and practical experience through in-depth research and investment practice. He has shared market insights and research findings with renowned financial media such as Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, Fortune, Forbes, Block, CoinDesk, as well as at prestigious universities domestically and internationally. He has also edited and co-published influential works in the industry such as "Blockchain, New Economy, and Autonomous Internet" and "Beyond Artificial Intelligence."

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   Xiaoan Ma马晓安

   Doctoral student, Paula and Gregory Chow Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University