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Rudd Family Professor of Management and tenured Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business. He is also the founding faculty director for the FinTech Initiative at Cornell, a faculty scientist at the Initiatives for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves as a Finance Editor for the Management Science, and have served on the editorial and advisory boards for the Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. Research interests: financial economics, information economics, FinTech and Economic Data Science, Entrepreneurship, and China. 

Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as President of the American Finance Association in 2016 and the editor of Journal of Finance from 2006–2012. He has published over 150 scholarly articles on topics spanning investment finance, emerging markets, corporate finance, behavioral finance, financial econometrics, decentralized finance and computer science. Research interests: Decentralized Finance, Investment Management, Performance Evaluation, Emerging Markets Finance. 

Incoming Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business. Prior to joining UBC, he obtained his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Yale School of Management in 2024 and his B.E. in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2017. His primary research areas are corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, and behavioral finance. His research projects use unstructured data analysis and machine learning to study the role of information in financial markets. For example, his recent paper “Persuading Investors: A Video-Based Study” (forthcoming in the Journal of Finance) leverages video analysis techniques to study how startup pitches affect VC investment decisions. 

Vice Dean for Faculty and Research and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Finance, Goizueta Business School, Emory University. She is a Fellow and Board Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a Research Associate of the NBER. She is currently the Vice President of the American Finance Association and will be the President at 2026, and was previously the President of the Society of Financial Studies. She has published extensively in top finance, economics, and law journals, and received numerous awards for research excellence. She served as Editor at Review of Financial Studies and Management Science. Research interests: corporate governance, institutional investors, technology and financial markets. 

The S. Dhanabalan Chair in Quantitative Studies and as an Assistant Professor in Accounting and Finance, NUS Business School. His papers have been published in Management Science, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting & Economics, and he has won the best paper awards multiple times. Research interests: the intersection of financial economics, innovation, and intermediation. 

The Associate Dean, Associate Professor of PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. He is also a Deputy Director of Research Center for Intelligent Finance, Tsinghua University PBCSF-NIFR. His works have been published in Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, the Accounting Review, Management Science, and top tier academic journals in China, including Economic Research Journal, Journal of Financial Research, Management World, Journal of Management Sciences in China, etc. Research interests: the Financial Technology and Consumer Finance, etc.

Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. His current research focuses on developing machine learning solutions for big-data problems in empirical finance. Xiu’s work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Annals of Statistics. 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, Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, AQR Insight Award, EFA Best Paper Prize, and Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award. He has been recognized as one of Poets & Quants’ Best 40-under-40 Business School Professors of 2023.

Chair Professor of Finance and Associate Dean at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. She is also the Deputy Director of National Institute of Financial Research and Institute of Fintech Research at Tsinghua University, the director of Xinyuan Fintech Research Center and the director of Research Center for Wealth Management. Her works have been published in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and other top tier academic journals, and have won the best paper awards multiple times. She has served as associate editor at Management Science, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance and Journal of Empirical Finance. Research interests: international finance, empirical asset pricing, fintech and Chinese capital market.