Dr. Xiao Qin is an Associate Professor and PhD supervisor in the Department of Finance and Director of the MBA in Finance Program at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She visited the Department of Statistics in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) from August 2007 to August 2008, the Bernoulli Research Center in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 2009, the Department of Economics in Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) in 2012 and the Department of Finance in University of Cincinnati in 2018.

She has been selected for the "Pujiang Talent Program" and "Chenguang Program" in Shanghai. She was awarded the "William Sharp Best Paper Award" by the International Finance and Banking Association (IFABS), the Best Paper Nomination Award of FMA, the National Award for Outstanding Achievements in Statistical Research, and the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Research and Propaganda of Deng Xiaoping Theory in Shanghai. She was awarded the National Excellent Master of Finance Teaching Case, the "Zhuguang Award" of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the "Most Popular Undergraduate Teacher" and the "Most Popular Undergraduate Course Team". The "Corporate Finance" taught by her team was selected as the "First-class Undergraduate Course" in Shanghai. She has supervised master's students to win the National and Shanghai Outstanding Master's Thesis in Finance, and supervised undergraduate students to win the "Excellent Bachelor's Thesis Award (Top 1%)" and the "Top Ten Innovative Projects" at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

She is the deputy secretary-general of Shanghai Financial Engineering Research Association, the expert of national professional degree level assessment and thesis quality evaluation by the Academic Degree Center of the Ministry of Education, the expert of national and Shanghai undergraduate graduation design (thesis) evaluation, the program chair of China International Risk Forum (CIRF 2017), and serves in the editorial board of China Finance Review International, and etc.

Xiao’s research interests are mainly in the areas of financial systemic risk, FinTech and extreme value statistics.

Ph.D and Postdoc supervision area: 1. Financial systemic risk; 2. FinTech, especially the application of big data and AI methods in the financial field; 3. Green finance. Students with related research interests and expertise are welcome to contact me by email.

Academic papers: She has published more than 20 papers in important journals at home and abroad, such as Economic Research, Journal of Management Science, Chinese Soft Science, Financial Research, Statistical Research, Theory and Practice of Systems Engineering, Journal of Banking and Finance, Energy Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Pacific- Basin Finance Journal, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, Proceedings of Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), etc. She was awarded the "William Sharp Best Paper Award" from IFABS (2013), "Best Paper Nomination Award" from FMA (2021), "Best Paper Award" from CSCR (2022), "Excellence in Research Award" from Shanghai Risk Forum (SRF) (2015), "National Statistical Research Excellence Award" (2008), Shanghai "Deng Xiaoping Theory Research and Propaganda Excellence Award "(2012) and other academic awards at home and abroad. Besides, three of her papers have been Reprinted by Renmin University of China.

Research projects: She is the PI of four National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects, including two National Natural Science Foundation of China general projects (Grant No. 72271159, 71471115), one National Natural Science Foundation of China youth project (Grant No. 71001070) and one National Natural Science Foundation of China international cooperation and exchange Project (Grant No. 71211130310). Among them, the post-evaluation of the youth project is excellent. She is in charge of one project of Humanities and Social Science Research Planning Fund of the Ministry of Education (Grant No. 22YJA790054) and in charge of the completion of Shanghai "Pujiang Talent Program" (Grant No. 2019PJC071), Shanghai "Morning Glory Program" (Grant No. 11CG13) and "Morning Star Young Scholar Award Program" of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As the backbone, she has participated in two major projects of the National Social Science Foundation of China, one major project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, two major international cooperation projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and one innovative research group project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Academic activities: Her papers have been selected to present at important conferences in the field of economics, finance and statistics, such as World Congress of the Econometric Society (ESWC 2010, held once every five years, known as the Olympics of economics), the American Economic Association Annual Meeting (ASSA/AEA 2023, 2022), the World Econometrics Society Annual Meeting in Asia (AMES 2023), the European Economic Association Annual Meeting and European Econometrics Conference (EEA-ESEM 2013), the International Financial Management Society Annual Meeting (FMA 2021), European Financial Management Association Annual Conference (EFMA 2021), International Finance and Banking Society Annual Conference (IFABS 2013), International Risk Management Conference (IRMC 2013), American Risk and Insurance Institute Annual Conference (ARIA 2021), Extreme Value Statistics Annual Conference (EVA 2007, 2009, 2013), Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM 2008), China Finance Annual Meeting (CFAM 2017, 2019-2022), China International Conference on Finance (CICF 2021), China Fintech Research Conference (CFTRC, 2022), Financial Systems Engineering and Risk Management Annual Conference (FSERM 2021, 2022), etc.

I. Main Courses

    Undergraduate: Corporate Finance (2015-), Statistics (2010-2017), Academic Reading and Writing in Finance (2014-2021).

    Graduate students: Academic Writing, Norms and Ethics (MF, 2021-), Corporate Finance (MBA, 2022-).

II. Teaching Awards

    National "Excellent Teaching Case for Master of Finance" (2021)

    Shanghai "First-class Undergraduate Program" (2021), Shanghai "Key Undergraduate Program" (2019) (Corporate Finance, 2/3)

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Candlelight Award" (2019)

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program Outstanding Instructor" (2021)

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "The first batch of university-level excellent grassroots teaching organizations" (2021, 2/6)

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Excellent Head Teacher" (2022)

    "Contribution to Discipline Construction Award" of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2020), Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (2019-2022)

    "Most Popular Undergraduate Teacher" (2021), "Most Popular Undergraduate Course Group" (2022, 2019, Corporate Finance, 2/2)

III. Supervised Students’ Awards

    National "Outstanding Master's Thesis in Finance" (China finance professional degree thesis center storage thesis) (2023, Yuwen Wang, MF student)

    Shanghai "Outstanding Master's Thesis in Finance" (2019, Zhenyu Xia, MF student)

    Shanghai "Outstanding Graduate" (2023, Xinyi Yang, undergraduate student), Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Outstanding Graduate" (2023, Yirui Song, undergraduate student; 2021, Dezhi Zhu, MF student), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis (Top 1%)" (2013, Chengying Luo, undergraduate)

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University "Top 10 College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Projects" (2021), "National Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (Outstanding Finisher)" (2022, Yirui Song, undergraduate student, etc.; 2021, Jiaqi Wang, undergraduate student, etc., selected for the 15th Annual National Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference)

    CFA Institute Research Challenge, East Asia Champion and Asia Pacific Final Four (2022, undergraduate student Haowei Jing, etc., co-mentored with professor Zongming Tang)

IV. Supervised Students' Placement (selected)

Undergraduates:

    Yirui Song, M.S. in Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (graduated in 2023, instructor of the College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program + bachelor’s thesis advisor)

    Hao Chi, M.S. in Financial Mathematics, University of Chicago (graduated in 2023, instructor of College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program)

    Chengying Luo, Ph.D. in Economics, University of Pittsburgh (graduated in 2013, bachelor’s thesis advisor)

Masters of Finance:

    Tianxiao Zhang, Vice President, Investment Banking Management Committee, CITIC Securities (graduated in 2016, Master's thesis advisor)

    Xinhan Fei, Fund Manager, HSBC Jinxin Fund Management Co., Ltd (graduated in 2017, Master's thesis advisor)

    Zhenyu Xia, Principal Researcher, Shanxi Securities (graduated in 2018, Master's thesis advisor)