Junhuan Zhang is an Associate Professor of Finance, and Director of Master of Science in Finance Program at the School of Economics and Management at Beihang University. He was a visiting scholar at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Vanderbilt University, George Mason University, and a postdoctoral research associate of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. 

His research interests focus on application of AI and Blockchain in Finance, especially for Computational & Behavioral Finance, Market Microstructure, Machine Learning, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain Finance. His research has been published in finance and economics journals including European Journal of Finance, Quantitative Finance, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting.

Zhang has served as an associate editor of  International Review of Economics & Finance, Cogent Economics & Finance, and an academic editor of PLOS ONE.

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/site/junhuanzhang

• Education

• PhD, Computer Science (Computational Finance), King's College London

• MSc, Probability Theory & Mathematical Statistics, Beijing Jiaotong University

• BSc, Information & Computing Science (Mathematics), Beijing Jiaotong University

• Positions

• Associate Professor of Finance, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China, Sep. 2016-present

• Deputy Head of Department of Finance, School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, China, Apr. 2018-present

• Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, USA, Nov. 2017, Jan. 2024- Feb. 2024

• Visiting Scholar, George Mason University Department of Economics, USA, Jun 2018- Aug. 2018

• Visiting Scholar, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics, USA, Jan. 2017, Oct. 2017

• Visiting Research Associate of Computational Finance / Economics, King's College London, UK, 2015-2017

• Postdoc of Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia, USA, 2015-2016