Research Interests

Dr. Zhang's research interests focus on how interacting autonomous agents make financial decisions in real-world complex economic systems by cooperative or non-cooperative multiagent learning and adaptation, and how agents' behaviors influence the performance of the overall economic systems. They are interdisciplinary topics in Finance and Economics, especially in relation to the applications of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Finance and Economics.

• Computational & Behavioral Finance (Automated Trading, High Frequency Trading, Quantitative Trading, Market Design, Market Microstructure, Risk & Regulation)

• FinTech (Robo-advisor, RegTech)

• Blockchain Finance (Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, Digital Asset Pricing & Trading)

• Artificial Intelligence (Multi-Agent Systems, Agent-Based Modeling, Machine Learning, Data Science, Knowledge Graph)

Research Grants

• National Key Research and Development Program of China, Grant No. 2018YFB1402904, 2019-2021, CNY 5.22M, Principal Investigator.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 72271013, 2023-2026, CNY 450K, Principal Investigator.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 71801008, 2019-2021, CNY 180K, Principal Investigator.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 71850007, CNY 2M, Co-Investigator.

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant Nos. 10971010 & 71271026, Co-Investigator.

• Starting Grant for 100-Talent Program, Beihang University, 2016-2020, Principal Investigator.

• Big Data in Health Insurance, PICC, 2015-2016, Co-Investigator.