Education
- BSc, 1984, Harbin Institute of Technology
- MBA, 1988, York University
- PhD, 1992, University of Toronto
Employment History
- July 2005 - present, Professor, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- July 1998 - June 2005, Associate Professor, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- July 1992 - June 1998, Associate Professor, College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan
Honors
- Research Award
- Best Paper in Derivatives, Northern Finance Association, September 2005.
- Toronto Society of Financial Analysts Research Award, September 1998.
- Harvey Rorke Memorial Prize for "Best Ph.D. Dissertation", Northern Finance Association, September 1993.
- Best Paper Award ("Valuing Differential Swaps"), Administrative Science Association of Canada, May 1993.
Teaching Award
- Most Effective Professor of the Year, 1998, College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan
- Most Effective Professor of the Year, 1995, College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan
Academic Services
- Editorial Services
- July 2005 to present, Area Editor (Finance), Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences
- July 1999 to present, Editorial Board, Journal of Derivatives
- Jan. 1998 to June 1999, Editorial Board, Journal of Financial Engineering
Conference Committees
- CIFEr (Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering) Program Committee (1996)
- FMA Conference Committee (1995, 1996, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2009)
- FMA Asian Conference Committee (2009)
- FMA European Conference Committee (1999)
- MFA (Midwest Finance Association), Track Chair (Derivatives), 2008
- NFA (Northern Finance Association), Conference Committee, 2007, 2009
- Risk Management Conference Committee, National University of Singapore, 2008, 2009
Journal Referees
- Sample of journals: Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Mathematical Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Review of Financial Studies
Administrative Experience
- July 2009 - Dec 2009, Acting Chair, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough.
- Sept 2005 - June 2006, Associate Chair, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough.
- July 2002 - June 2003, Associate Chair, Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough.
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