[1] Can Mutual Funds Exploit the Anomaly Zoo? Evidence from a Customized Machine Learning Framework

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4222472

Presentations:  University of Iowa, Loyola Univeristy Chicago, San Deigo State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Central University of Finance and Economics, The University of Queensland, University of Illinois Chicago, 2023 FMA Annual Meeting, 2024 SEA Annual Meeting

[2] Labor Shocks and Local Economies: The Cost of ICE Enforcement Actions (with C. Wei Li, Erik Lie, and Tong Yao)

Presentations:  University of Iowa, Purdue University*, 2025 NFA* (Scheduled)

Awards: 2021 Best Paper Award, Department of Finance, Tippie College of Business, Univeristy of Iowa

[3] Evaluating Hedge Funds with Machine Learning-Based Benchmarks (with Ashish Tiwari) 

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4215002

Presentations: Lehigh University*, 2022 FMA, Concordia University*, Asian Meeting of the Economic Society, 2023 NFA, 2024 MFA, R/Finance Conference, 2024 European FMA, 2024 CICF, 2024 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting, Western University*

Media coverage: Chief Investment Officer, August 2025

Awards: Semi-finalist of Best Paper Award, 2022 FMA

[4] Uncovering Sparsity in SDF  (with Ashish Tiwari)

Presentations:  2024 FMA Annual Meeting, 14th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society*, Fordham University* (Scheduled)

[5] Identifying Signals of the Cross Section of Stock Returns: A Bayesian-based Machine Learning Approach  (with Ashish Tiwari)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3898282

Presentations:  University of Iowa, 2021 EEA-ESEM, 2021 SoFiE, 2021 FMA, 2022 FMA

Awards: 2020 Best Paper Award, Department of Finance, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa

                  Semi-finalist of Best Paper Award, 2021 FMA

                  The 3rd Prize at 2021 Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Academic Competition

[1] Common idiosyncratic volatility and returns: From an investment horizon perspective, International Journal of Finance & Economics  (with Libo Yin and Zhi Su). 24.1 (2019): 370-390.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ijfe.1668

[2] The pricing effect of the common pattern in firm-level idiosyncratic volatility: Evidence from A-Share stocks of China, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications  (with Libo Yin and Zhi Su). 497 (2018): 218-235.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378437118300049