Biography

Guanhao (Gavin) Feng focuses on tackling empirical challenges in asset pricing and FinTech by developing methodological solutions that leverage machine learning, generative AI, Bayesian statistics, and financial econometrics. 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 serves as a research fellow at the Asian Bureau of Financial and Economic Research (ABFER) and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics. He has received several recognitions for his research, including research awards from INQUIRE Europe, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, and the AQR Insight Award.

Gavin is an associate professor of finance and statistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of the College of Business Research Centre of Fintech and Business Analytics (FBAC). Gavin earned his Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Chicago in 2017.