Welcome to my site!
I am Tengjia Shu, an Assistant Professor of Finance in University of Illinois Chicago.
I earned my Ph.D. degree in Business Administration (Finance) from University of Iowa.
My main research interests are investment, asset pricing, machine learning, and labor economics.
tengjia [at] {uic.edu}
Education
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Ph.D in Business Administration (Finance), 2023
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
M.S in Applied Statistics, 2018
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
B.S in Statistics, 2016
Conference & Seminar Presentations
2025
14th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (Scheduled)
Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting
2024
Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting
Western University*
ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting
China International Conference in Finance
European Financial Management Association* (European FMA)
The 16th R/Finance Conference
Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting
2023
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting
Northern Finance Association (NFA) Annual Meeting
Asian Meeting of the Economic Society*
Concordia University*
2022
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting
Lehigh University*
University of Iowa
2021
Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting
Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Academic Competition (the 3rd prize)
EEA-ESEM (European Economic Association)
Thirteenth Annual SoFiE Conference
University of Iowa (X2)
Professional Activities
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Journal of Empirical Finance
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Conference Program Committee
2024 FMA Annual Meeting
2024 UIC Finance Conference (interal reviewer)
Conference Session Chair
2024 FMA Annual Meeting
ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting
Discussant
2024 FMA Annual Meeting
2023 FMA Annual Meeting
2021 FMA Annual Meeting