Biography
Guanhao (Gavin) Feng focuses on developing methodological solutions, including machine learning, Bayesian statistics, and financial econometrics, to address big data challenges in empirical asset pricing. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, and International Economic Review. He is the principal investigator for various external research grants, such as the HKRGC ECS and GRF grants, and the NSFC youth science fund. Gavin’s research has been acknowledged by practitioners, receiving research awards from INQUIRE Europe, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, and the AQR Insight Award.
Gavin is an associate professor of business statistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago in 2017.