Yongmin Zhang

Biography

Prof. Yongmin Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1997. He has 17 years of teaching and research experiences at University of Chicago and State University of New York at Stony Brook.  He also has 3 years of financial modeling experience in Wall Street as a lead research analyst in J. P. Morgan and a risk management consultant in Wells Fargo. In 2009, he joined Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University as the academic director for Qinlan Program in Financial Mathematics in Jiangsu Province. Since 2011, he has been Professor and Chair in Finance in Nottingham University Business School China (NUBS China), and Director of Centre for Global Finance and International Finance Research Centre. Since 2012, he has been the academic director for “Global Finance Management” which is one of key disciplines in universities in Zhejiang Province.  In 2013, he was awarded Qianjiang Distinguished Professorship (钱江学者) in Finance and Mathematics. As the founding head of Department of Finance, he recruited 6 top finance researchers around the world and  helped the Finance, Accounting and Management Program in   NUBS China to win the “Distinguished Program” title in Ningbo with a half million government grant . He has been a supervisor for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers, 7 Ph.D. students, 39 master students. Three of them are now professors in universities in the United States. Prof. Zhang has authored 2 books and more than 80 research papers in Finance, Management, Economics, Mathematics, and Physics, 17 of which are published in SCI/SSCI journals with impact factors of 1.0+, 12 of which are published in journals with impact factors of 2.0+, 2 of which are published in journals with impact factors of 3.0+, one paper is published in a journal with impact factor 5.9 which is in top 15 among all scientific journals.  He has been a principle investigator for more than 10 large scale research projects with funding of 20 million RMB  from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Social Science, U.S. Department of Energy, and British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He has organized 6 large scale finance conferences with more than 2 million RMB of government and corporate sponsorships. He was invited to give keynote lectures in more than 60 times in professional conferences and major research institutes. He was the conference chair for International Finance and Banking Society 2017 Asia Conference and The Six International Conference on Futures and Other Derivatives. He has served as a member in scientific committees, expert panel review committees and advisory committees for various governments and organizations.  He has appeared in both national and international media in numerous times. He is a guest editor for Journal of Futures Markets and an associate editor for International Journal of Social Science and Management. He has served a referee for top finance journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Quantitative Finance, and Journal of Futures Markets. His honors include: French U.A.P. Prize in mathematics, Hong Kong Wang Foundation Scholar, Outstanding Paper Award in 11th U.S. Annual Conference in Applied Mathematics, Individual Development Award from State University of New York, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Engineering Education, “Highly Talented Expert” title by Chinese Ministry of Education, Zhejiang  “1000 Talents” Expert (千人计划).

Research Interest

Financial Engineering, Mathematical Finance, Computational Finance, Econometrics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics