Welcome to Yutong’s Homepage!

I am a PhD student at Department of Finance, CUHK Business School. I graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree (Dean’s Honours List) in Computer Science and Statistics.

I was a research assistant at Department of Finance, CUHK Business School hosted by Prof. Darwin Choi, Prof. Zhenyu Gao and Prof. Wenxi Jiang.

Previously I worked as a research intern for Prof. Joelle Pineau on machine learning at McGill University & Quebec AI Institute (Mila).

Research Interests

I’m broadly interested in finance, big data, and machine learning.

Most of my research projects focus on (1) investigating institutional investors’ behaviour towards sustainable investing and (2) taking advantage of large-scale data and applying machine learning techniques to unravel finance research questions.

Skills

Programming Languages: Stata, Python, R, Matlab, SQL, Shell Script
Machine Learning Packages: PyTorch, Scikit-learn, NLTK, Transformers
Database: Compustat, CRSP, CSMAR, Thomson Reuters