Xin He (Sean) is a Tenure-Track Associate Professor of Finance at University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest is Asset Pricing and Quantitative Investment. His work has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, and International Review of Finance. Sean’s research has been acknowledged by practitioners, receiving research awards from INQUIRE Europe and IQAM Research Prize.

School of Management Personal Page: https://bs.ustc.edu.cn/english/profile-2437.html

Research: Asset Pricing, Quantitative Investment

Website: https://www.xinhesean.com/

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3071233

Office: Room 609, Building 1, International Institute of Finance, USTC

We are organizing the 2025 USTC Alumni Finance Conference, Conference Website, Call for Paper.

Research Team：MLFINA https://mlfina.github.io/home

Actively hiring research students interested in Quantitative Investment, with background from FIN/MATH/ORMS/STAT. Please email your transcript, cv, and cover letter to mlfina.ustc@gmail.com.

Selected Publication:

3. “Growing the Efficient Frontier on Panel Trees” with Lin William Cong, Guanhao Feng, and Jingyu He. 

        Journal of Financial Economics, 2025, 167, 104024.

        2022 INQUIRE Europe Research Grant Award

        2024 IQAM Research Award

2. “Predicting Individual Corporate Bond Returns” with Guanhao Feng, Yanchu Wang, Chunchi Wu

        Journal of Banking and Finance, 2025, 171, 107372.

1. “The Bright Side of Cross Ownership: Evidence From the Corporate Resilience to COVID-19 Crisis in China” with Yihui Chen and Haoyuan Wei.
       International Review of Finance, 2025, 25(1), e12468.

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