ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD, Accounting, 2006, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- BS, Accounting, 2001, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor of Accounting, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July 2015 - present
- Assistant Professor of Accounting, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), July 2009 - June 2015
- Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Rochester, July 2006 - June 2009
PUBLICATIONS
- "Cross-Industry Information Sharing among Colleagues and Analyst Research." Journal of Accounting and Economics, (With Allen Huang and An-Ping Lin), April 2022
- "An Unintended Benefit of Risk Factor Mandate of 2005." Review of Accounting Studies, 14 April 2021 (With Allen Huang and Jianghua Shen).
Best Paper Award (First Place) at the 2018 MIT Asia Conference in Accounting - "Analyst Information Discovery and interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach" Management Science, June 2018, Vol. 64, Iss. 6, pp. 2833-2855. (with Allen Huang, Reuven Lehavy and Rong Zheng).
- "Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports" The Accounting Review, November 2014, 89 (6) 2151-2180. (with Allen Huang and Rong Zheng).
- "Evidence on the Trade-Off between Real Activities Manipulation and Accrual-Based Earnings Management." The Accounting Review, March 2012, 87 (2) 675-703.
- "What Determine Financial Analysts' Career Outcomes During Mergers?" Journal of Accounting and Economics, March 2009, 59-86. (with Joanna Shuang Wu)
- "CEO Reputation and Earnings Quality" Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 25, Issue 1, Spring 2008. (with Jennifer Francis, Allen Huang and Shiva Rajgopal)
WORKING PAPERS
- "Measuring Readability with Language Predictability: A Large Language Model Approach," with Jiexin Zheng and Rong Zheng
- "The Value of Vagueness in Language: Evidence from Analyst Reports," with Kerry Xiao
HONORS AND AWARDS
- The Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, Finalist, 2016, 2018
- Duke University Graduate Fellowship, 2001 - 2006
- Deloitte & Touche Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Award, 2004
- American Accounting Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, 2004
- PricewaterhouseCoopers/Long Tao Scholarship, China 2000
EDITORIAL BOARDS
- The Accounting Review (Editorial Board, 2017 - Present)
- Contemporary Accounting Research (Editorial Board, 2023 - Present)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Member of American Accounting Association
- Member of American Finance Association
- Member of CAPANA Program Committee (2018-2019)