Yingying LI

The University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise：

Statistical Decision Analysis

Details：

Relevant Teaching Experience with Universities:
Yingying Li is Chair Professor at the Department of Information System, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM) and the Department of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She served as acting head of the FinTech Thrust at HKUST(GZ) at its initial stage. Before joining HKUST, Prof. Li also held positions as lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the Bendheim Center for Finance and the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department at Princeton University. Prof. Li received her Ph. D in Statistics from the University of Chicago. She has extensive teaching experience in MBA, EMBA, DBA, MSc, PhD and UG programs.
MBA Program: HKUST (Hong Kong)
EMBA Program: HKUST (Hong Kong)
DBA Program: HKUST (Hong Kong)
PhD Program: HKUST (Guangzhou)
MSc Programs: HKUST (Hong Kong), Princeton University (US)
UG Programs: HKUST (Hong Kong), University of Chicago
Selected Teaching and Professional Honors/Appointments:
RGC Senior Research Fellow (2023)
Elected Fellow, the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) (2017)
Council member, the Society for Financial Econometrics (2019- present)
Acting Head, FinTech Thrust, HKUST(GZ) (2020- 2022)
NSFC Excellent Young Scientist (2019)
Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association (2024- present)
Associate Editor, Journal of Econometrics (2017- 2021, 2024- present)
Associate Editor, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (2017- 2022)
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Econometrics (2017- 2024)
Dean's Recognition for Teaching Excellence (2013-2014,2016-2017,2019-2024)

Research and Publications:
Prof. Li's research focuses on statistical learning for financial big data, large portfolio optimization, individualized financial decision making, volatility estimation and prediction etc. Prof. Li has published in top journals in statistics, finance and economics, such as Econometrica, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Journal of Econometrics.
Professor Li leads a Financial Statistics Research lab: FinStaR@HKUST. The website http://finstar.ust.hk contains their latest research publications.