Building agent harnesses and multi-agent workflows that apply frontier reasoning models to accelerate and validate research in Economics, Finance, and Data Science
Research Staff Member, American Economic Association2025
Reproduce AEA papers, with code and data
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Cornell UniversityAugust 2025
Dissertation: "Essays on Financial Markets, Networks, and Technologies"
M.S. Economics, Xiamen University2019
B.A. Finance, Sun Yat-sen University2016
Working Papers
Retail Trading Network and Cross-Predictability in the US Equity Market2025
Job Market Paper
Using Vision Large Models to Understand Asset Returns2025
Chinese Financial Research Conference (AI in Finance Session)
Systemic Risk in Financial Network Under Strategic Attack2025
Perpetual Futures Contracts and Cryptocurrency Market Quality2025
with Artem Streltsov — AFA 2026
Work in Progress
FinAgentBench: Separating Execution from Judgment in LLM Financial Research Agents2026
LLM agent evaluation: a harness benchmarking frontier models on financial research tasks, from asset-pricing replication to return prediction from news, filings, and analyst text
How Liquidity Providers Profit in Binary Settlement Markets: Evidence from One Billion Prediction Market Trades2026
Funding, Basis, and Price Discovery on Hyperliquid2026
Publications
Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment
with Lin Cong, Pulak Ghosh, Jiasun Li, Artem Streltsov — Forthcoming at Review of Finance; AFA 2026
Do Inflation Expectations Drive Cryptocurrency Investments? (Extended Abstract)
with Lin Cong, Pulak Ghosh, Jiasun Li, Artem Streltsov — 7th Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT 2025), LIPIcs Vol. 354, pp. 10:1–10:3, 2025
Intraday Pattern of Option Time Value and Pricing Efficiency
with Liping Yang, Zhenlong Zheng — Journal of Applied Statistics and Management, 2021
Does Differentiated Dividend Tax Curb Speculation?
with Aimei Zhai — South China Journal of Economics, 2015
Teaching Assistant Experience
Econometrics and StatisticsUndergraduate, Fall 2024