Program Faculty

Dr. Wei Wang is a Professor & Distinguished Professor of Finance at Smith School of Business at Queen's University. His primary research expertise is in corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, leveraged finance and high-yield bonds, and distressed investing. Wei’s research papers have been published in top finance journals and featured in prominent media including the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail and Businessweek. He has presented his work at close to 100 academic conferences and seminars. Wiley recently published Wei’s book, Corporate Financial Distress, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy, with Professors Edward I. Altman at New York University and Edith Hotchkiss at Boston College. Since 2012, Wei has written finance case packages for Harvard Business School. He was adjunct professor at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School. He worked in commodity derivative trading and financial engineering prior to his academic career.

Dr. Olena Ivus’s research combines theory and empirical work to study international trade law, intellectual property protection, and high-skilled migration. Her work is published in leading journals like the Journal of International Economics and the Canadian Journal of Economics. She has received a Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Dr. Ivus holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Calgary and won the WTO Essay Award for Young Economists in 2010.

Wulin Suo joined the school in 2000. Before joining the school, he had taught at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the Mathematics Department of UBC and Hebei University in China. He also worked in the risk management department and the treasury department of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Suo’s research interests include consumption and portfolio theory, asset pricing, valuation and hedging of derivative securities, term structure modeling, credit risk and risk management. His research interests also include computational finance, and mathematical finance.

He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics (UBC '94) and a PhD in Finance (Toronto ;02).

Selim Topaloglu is an Associate Professor and RBC Fellow of Finance at Smith School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Arizona State University, an M.A. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Management from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Prior to joining Smith, he visited Purdue University. Dr. Topaloglu’s research interests include trading behavior of individuals and institutions, initial public offerings, and analyst behavior. His research has been published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

One of the architects of Smith School of Business' innovative MBA for Science and Technology — Canada's first specialized MBA — Mr. Anger is an authority on business curriculum development.

In 1997 he was appointed Chair of the School's Undergraduate Program where he is responsible for the curriculum review and ongoing improvement of the School's BCom program.

Mr. Anger also teaches Finance and Accounting for Smith's Executive MBA program. He integrates financial accounting with the finance courses in the program, and he plays a leading role in advising Executive MBA participants on their projects, and in integrating financial considerations into the curriculum.

In the private sector, Mr. Anger is a leader in the application of learning technologies for bankers and other professionals. He earned both a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and an MBA degree at Queen's University.

Ning Zhang is an associate professor of accounting and Commerce 1983 Distinguished Faculty Fellow in accounting at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University in Canada. He earned his PhD in business administration from Duke University in North Carolina and his master’s degree in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

He is interested in the role of information and financial reporting incentives in financial markets. He has published his work in many leading academic journals, including Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, and Review of Accounting Studies. He received Smith’s New Researcher award in 2018.

Professor Bai is an Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. His research and teaching interests are in empirical corporate finance, behavioral corporate finance, corporate diversification, labor finance. His work has been published in top journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science. His most recent work focuses on Fintech, ESG, and DE&I related issues.

Jingyu Zhang’s research focuses on information economics, institutional investors and corporate governance, and corporate insider trades. His recent research extends to hedges funds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETF), corporate innovations, and textual analyses. His recent work, funded by SSHRC IDG 2022 and ranked in the top sextile, empirically explores how hedges funds exploit a unique access to private information of firms filing bankruptcy and make profitable trades. His other project, also awarded with SSHRC IDG 2022, empirically examines the real effects of mutual funds’ ETF usage on portfolio choices. Additionally, Jingyu and his coauthors apply the FinBERT model to textually analyze earnings conference call Q&As and investigate the verbal interactions between analysts and executives. They argue that these verbal interactions produce new information beyond cold financial figures, thus affecting share price responses to earnings news and resolving firm-level uncertainty (even further).

Dr. Miao is a graduate of University of Oxford, UK, and University of Tsinghua, China. He has published numerous papers including “Property Rights Protection and Investment: a Natural Experiment from China”. He has also been a tutor and guest lecturer on various programs in China and in the UK. Dr. Miao holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, an MSc in Financial Economics, and a PhD in Financial Economics.

Dr. Qiu has been an associate professor in Finance at Renmin University since 2015. In that time, he has engaged as a Research Fellow for the International Monetary Institute. Along with his 8 publications and 6 working papers, Dr. Qiu holds a PhD in Finance from the London School of Economics. He has been the recipient of numerous awards from various organizations including the Chinese National Science Foundation.

Dr. Hu holds his PhD in Finance from Renmin University. He has been teaching at Renmin since 2004, and currently he is the Associate Director at the School of Finance in Renmin University. Dr. Hu teaches courses including Insurance, Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Private Equity Capital and Venture Capital, and his research focuses on private equity & venture capital and insurance corporate management.

Dr. Wu’s research interests cover empirical asset pricing, portfolio management, financial econometrics, big data and machine learning methods. His research has been published in top international journals, and he is also a recipient of the funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Excellent Young Scientist Program.

With a research focus on banking, Dr. Lu mainly teaches courses of Commercial Banking and Operations and Financial Supervision. He has been a member of the program team of FMA 2018 and 2019 Annual Conference, while also work as an anonymous reviewer for top journals including Economic Studies; Economic Journal; Review of Finance; Journal of International Business Studies; Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; Journal of Banking and Finance; China Economic Review, etc.

Prof. Wang is awarded a place of Chair Professor on Cheung Kong Scholars Programme of Ministry of Education, Special Government Subsidy, and National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund. His research interests focus on asset pricing, corporate finance and corporate governance.

Prof. Guo’s research centered around asset pricing, default risk, liquidity risk, interest rate term structure, and derivatives arbitrage. He also work as a Researcher at China Bond Institute, Researcher at International Monetary Institute, and Associate Editor of European Journal of Finance.

Dr. Lei has over 20 years of experience in the academia. He has been a Research Fellow of China Financial Policy Research Center at Renmin University of China, Deputy Director of Investment Research Institute at Renmin University of China, Instructor at Beijing Financial Training Center, Bond Training Specialist at National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors (NAFMII).

Dr. Gao earned a Ph.D. in Management from Chinese Academy of Science and a Ph.D. in Finance from City University of Hong Kong. As an awarded scholar, his research interests focus on corporate finance, financial market intermediaries, China's capital market, green finance, banking and risk management.

Dr. Ma is a Young Top Talent on China’s Ten Thousand Talents Plan. He is Visiting Scholar of Harvard University, Director of China Finance Society, Director of China International Finance Society, Chair Expert of Major Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, Reviewer of National Social Science Foundation and National Natural Science Foundation. Dr. Ma specializes in macro finance theory and policy. Before joining the academia, Dr. Ma has worked multiple positions in the central bank system and has rich experience in economic and financial practice.

Dr. Song is specialized in monetary and financial theory and policy and financial technology. His also serves as Director of China International Finance Society, Researcher of China Financial Policy Research Center and associate editor of International Monetary Review, and China Fintech Report. Dr. Song is also an editorial board member of Renminbi Internationalization Report, China Wealth Management Research Report, and China Green Finance Development Research Report.

Dr. Luo’s research interests are macro finance, commercial banking, financial technology, inclusive finance. He is the head of the Fintech Dual Bachelor Degree Experiment Program at Renmin University, and also work as the Researcher and Deputy Director of China Banking Research Center at Renmin University of China.

Tan Songtao, Ph.D. in Economics, is a Professor at the School of Finance at Renmin University of China. He earned his Doctor’s degree in Economics from the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.

Prof. Tan teaches courses including Financial Econometrics, Investment Theory, Key Literature in Finance, and Econometric Analysis. His research Interests are Investor Trading Behavior, Capital Market Information Efficiency, and Machine Learning.

Yin Chengdong is associate professor at the School of Finance, Renmin University of China. He earned Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Irvine.

Prof. Yin mainly teaches course include Investment Science and Fixed Income Securities. His research areas including empirical investment, financial institutions, mutual funds, hedge funds, and asset management.

Zhu Wenyu is associate Professor at School of Finance, Renmin University of China. He earned Ph.D. in Finance from George Washington University, US.

He is currently a research fellow at Research Bureau of China Development Bank; research fellow at China Banking Research Center of Renmin University of China; research fellow of Institute of International Monetary Studies (IMI) of Renmin University of China.

His research areas primarily include banking, corporate finance, and real estate.