About
Leifu Zhang was born in Hunan, China and is a PhD student in finance at Washington University (2016 - present, obtained the candidacy in 2017 (a year in advance)). Before coming to the U.S., he graduated from Peking University with two Bachelor's degrees and then received an MPhil in economics (with the full funding support from the University Grants Committee of the Hong Kong SAR government) with the highest GPA award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He started his academic career as a theorist who focused on epistemic game theory which "formalizes assumptions about rationality and mutual beliefs in a formal language, then studies their behavioral implications in games." (Dekel and Siniscalchi, 2015), and does both theoretical and empirical work in finance now. His current research interests include FinTech, the applications of machine learning and AI in finance, information economics, psychology and bounded rationality.
He is a man with multiple interests. He believes what John Maynard Keynes (1924) had said:
"[...]the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician."
References
Curriculum Vitae
He is a man with multiple interests. He believes what John Maynard Keynes (1924) had said:
"[...]the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician."
References
- Dekel, E. and Siniscalchi, M., 2015. Epistemic game theory. In Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications (Vol. 4, pp. 619-702). Elsevier.
- Keynes, J.M., 1924. Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924. Economic Journal, 34(135), pp.311-372.
Curriculum Vitae
Contact• Phone (Olin Business School): (+1)314-935-6340
• Fax (Olin Business School): (+1)314-935-9484 • E-mail (Academic): leifu.zhang "at" wustl.edu • E-mail (Personal): leifu "at" leifuzhang.net |
AddressSimon Hall 220
Olin Business School Washington University One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 |