Curriculum Vitae

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Employment

Economist, Agentic SciencesAugust 2025 – Present

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
Introductory MacroeconomicsUndergraduate, 2020–2024
Demystifying FinTech and Big DataMBA, 2021
Probability Theory (Best Teaching Assistant)Undergraduate, 2018
Advanced EconometricsPhD-level, 2018
Experimental EconomicsUndergraduate, 2017
Financial MarketsUndergraduate, 2016
Public FinanceUndergraduate, 2015
EconometricsUndergraduate, 2014

Service

Reviewer for Advances in Financial Technologies — AFT2026

Research Assistant Experience

Refereed and edited manuscripts for economics, finance, and management journals2021–2024
Developed MATLAB code for the Evaluation-Approximation-Maximization algorithmSpring 2021
Designed and ran large-scale data collection, analytics, and computation pipelines2017–2019

Honors and Awards

Cornell FinTech Initiative Research Fellow, Cornell University2023
Emerging Market Institute Research Grant, Cornell University2022
Distinction for Economics PhD Qualifying Exam, Cornell University2020
Sage Fellowship, Cornell University2019–2025
Outstanding Graduate, Xiamen University2019
Best Research Thesis, Xiamen University2019
Excellent Volunteer, Xiamen University2019
Best Teaching Assistant, Xiamen University2018
Outstanding Graduate, Sun Yat-sen University2016
National Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University2014