Teaching associate professor, CFA, SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, Ph.D. in finance from Old Dominion University, USA, and MSc in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. He was awarded long-term innovative talent in the finance field of the National "1000 Talents Plan" by the Chinese Government. He has been engaged in quantitative investment and global asset allocation in Wall Street and well-known Chinese financial institutions for a long time, and the AUM under his management as large as hundreds of billions RMB, including well-known financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase Bank, Credit Suisse, CITIC Securities, Ping An Bank, etc. He has also taught and conducted scientific research in the University of Singapore, Peking University, and Fudan University. His main research areas include the application of big data and AI technologies in financial markets and risk management. He edited the book "Sixteen Lectures on Quantitative Investment in China" published by Peking University Press and issued several times. He has published many papers in international academic journals such as Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business, Journal of Business and Finance, Peking University Financial Review, etc. His research results were awarded the outstanding research by the China Securities Association in 2017. In recent years, he has presided over the Guangdong Pearl River Talent Special Research Fund Project. He has also been invited to serve as an anonymous reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Enterprise Information Systems Journal, Journal of
Computational Economics and Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business.
Ph.D. Old Dominion University, USA
M.A. National University of Singapore, Singapore
B.A. Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Financial Market, Risk Management,
AI and Big Data Applications in Finance
Quantitative Investment and Global Asset Allocation
2025-Present Teaching Associate Professor, Shenzhen University SAFTI
2019-2025 Head of Structured Investment, Managing Director, Ping An Bank/Ping An Wealth Management
2018-2021 Member of the Board of Directors, Ping An Tradition International Money Broking Company
2018-2019 Vice President of Investment Solutions, Ping An One Connect Technology LLC (NYSE Listed Company)
2018-Present Peking University HSBC Business School, Visiting Teaching Associate Professor
2017-2018 Teaching Associate Professor in Finance, Director of the Financial Engineering Lab, Peking University HSBC Business School
2015-2018 Visiting Associate Professor, Fudan University Management School
2012-2017 Head of Delta One Trading, SVP, CITIC Securities
2010-2013 Quantitative Trader in Delta One Trading, AVP, Credit Suisse
2007-2010 Senior Quantitative Analyst, VP, Global Securitized Product, JPMorgan Chase Bank
2004-2005 Assistant Researcher, National University of Singapore, School of Computing
Publications in International Journals
Xiaotian Zhu, Hong Wang, “Predicting Stock Index Increments Using Neural Networks: The Role
of Trading Volume under Different Horizons”, Journal of Expert Systems with Applications, Vol
34, Issue 4, May 2008, pp 3043-3054.
Xiaotian Zhu, Qian Sun, “Trading Volume and Price Pattern in China’s Stock Market: A
Momentum Life Cycle Explanation”, Journal of Behavioral Studies in Business, Vol 5, July 2012.
Xiaotian Zhu, Shuoyi Lu，“Earnings Management through Real Activities Manipulation Before
Mergers and Acquisitions”, Journal of Finance and Accountancy, Vol. 13, 2013.
Qian Sun, Xiaotian Zhu, “Arbitrage Risk and Post-Repurchase-Announcement Drift”, Journal of
Business and Finance Research, Vol.3, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2011, pp 57-66.
John A. Doukas, Xiaotian Zhu, “Short Selling Around Corporate Acquisitions”, Social Science
Research Network Electronic Library (SSRN: 165 1281)
Phua, P.K.H., Xiaotian Zhu, “Forecasting Stock Index Increments Using Neural Networks with
Trust Region Methods”, Proceedings of IEEE IJCNN2003, pp 260-265, Volume 1.
Xiaotian Zhu, Jiwei Wang, “Integrate Artificial Intelligence Techniques into Financial Investment
Information System”, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE-SMC, pp. 4067-4072, Volume1.
Xiaotian Zhu, “Do Short Sale Transactions Precede Merger &Acquisition Events? Evidence from
the Taiwan Stock Exchange”, presented on 2007 FMA International Annual Meeting, 2008 EFMA
Annual Meetings.
Xiaotian Zhu, “Investor Sentiment and Acquisitions: Is M&A Bidding Premium Driven by Market
Sentiment? “, presented on 2007 SFA Annual Meeting, 2008 MFA Annual Meeting.
Xiaotian Zhu, Hong Wang, “An Integrated Information System for Financial Investment”,
Research and Practical Issue of Enterprise Information System, Edition 1, pp 449-456, 2006,
Springer.
