Qi Zhang
Contact: 13380112@student.uts.edu.au
Entered PhD Program: July 2019
PhD Supervisor: Jianxin Wang
Research topics:
- Asset Pricing
- Market Microstructure
- Machine Learning
- Text Analysis
- Transfer Learning in Finance Applications
Teaching areas:
- Undergraduate finance coursework
- Econometrics
Academic Background and Work Experience:
Qi completed his Bachelor and Honours degrees in Finance from the University of Melbourne. His first essay builds upon the classical model of price discovery and investigates common information in financial markets. In his second essay, he applies state-of-the-art textual analysis techniques to portfolio analysis and shows that such techniques greatly improves portfolio performance. His recent research sits in the intersection of classical finance and machine learning in trying to apply transfer learning in finance.