| Prof. Xu Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaSpeech Title: To be updatedXu Chen is Professor of operations and supply chain management, Dean of School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChiXu Chen is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Dean of the School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His current research interests include competition management, supply chain management, and operations management. His publications have appeared in Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega-International Journal of Management Science, Journal of Business Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, and other journals. His research has been supported by grants from the National Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC), the Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), and the National Key R&D Program of China. |
Prof. Ran Zhang, Renmin University of China, ChinaSpeech Title：Quantamental InvestingZhang Ran, Professor of Business School in Renmin University of China, Director of the Graduate Program. She is the Elsevier 2020 and 2021 Highly CitedZhang Ran, Professor of Business School at Renmin University of China, Director of the Graduate Program. She is an Elsevier 2020 and 2021 Highly Cited Scholar. She worked at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, from 2006 to 2019. She was a member of the first Accounting Standards Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Finance and served as an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of BYD Company Ltd. She has published more than 30 papers in top academic journals at home and abroad, such as the Journal of Financial Economics and Economic Research. In August 2017, he published the monograph "Fundamental Quantitative Investment." Professor Zhang Ran's research achievements have won the Roger F. Murray Outstanding Research Award of the American Financial Quantitative Association, the "Best Paper Award" of the American Accounting Association, the first prize of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Excellence Award of Peking University, and the final "Excellent" evaluation of the National Natural Science Foundation. Her courses have been awarded the Teaching Training Certificate from Harvard Business School. |
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| Prof. Luiz Moutinho,University of Suffolk, EnglandVisiting Professor, The Marketing School, Portugal. Member of the Academia Europaea.Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is a Visiting Professor of Marketing at Suffolk Business School, Faculty of Arts, Business, and Applied Social Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, England, UK, and at The Marketing School, Portugal, and Adjunct Professor of Marketing, GSB, FBE, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He has been a full professor for 32 years and has held visiting professorship positions at numerous universities worldwide. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modeling in Management (JM2) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. His main areas of research interest encompass marketing, management and tourism futurecast, artificial intelligence, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, the use of artificial neural networks in marketing, modeling processes of consumer behavior, and futures research. Prof. Moutinho has given keynote speeches, lectures, seminars, talks, etc. in 46 countries worldwide. Prof. Moutinho has 36 books published and over 158 articles published in refereed academic journals. He has 15,580 academic citations, an h-index of 58, and an i10-index of 154 (Google Scholar, March 2023). |
Assoc. Prof. Yifeng Zhu, Central University of Finance and Economics, ChinaSpeech Title: Ridge Latent FactorsYifeng Zhu is now working as an Associate Professor in Finance with Tenure at the School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics. His research fields are asset pricing and applied econometrics. Dr. Zhu has published in multiple well-known finance journals, such as the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Journal of Empirical Finance, as the sole corresponding author. He received his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Tongji University and two master's degrees in math and statistics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Georgetown University. He graduated from Emory University with a PhD in economics. |
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