Hello, I am Cunyi!

I am a URC Postdoctoral Fellow at HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong. My work has appeared in Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, Journal of Business Research, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among others. I serve as an Assistant Editor of International Review of Finance.

I have received the Job Market Star recognition at the China Economic Annual Conference and the China Excellent Young Scholar Paper Award in Finance.

Research Interests

  • Digital Finance
  • Financial Risk
  • Green Finance

Education

  • Visiting Ph.D. in Finance

    The University of Hong Kong

    Advisor: Dragon Yongjun Tang

  • Ph.D. in Finance

    Sun Yat-sen University

    Advisor: Yan Zeng

  • M.A. in Finance

    Guangzhou University

    Advisor: Zhenghui Li

  • B.A. in Finance

    Wuhan University of Technology

Last updated: August 2026

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Industrial Digital Finance Empowering Real Economy Development

Peking University Press, Pre-publication

Introduction to Digital Finance

Peking University Press, 2024

PROJECT PARTICIPATION

  • Theoretical and Policy Research on Closely Integrating Investment in Physical Assets and Investment in People
    Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 26ZDA032)

  • Research on Financial Digitalization and Financial Risk Governance
    Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 24AZD019)

  • Statistical Monitoring of Coordination between Digital Finance Empowerment and Risk
    General Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 24BTJ039)

  • Theoretical and Applied Research on Industrial Digital Finance Empowering the Real Economy
    Excellent Young Team Project of the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (No. 2023B1515040001)

  • Research on Insurance Asset Allocation Based on Green Development
    General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72371256)

  • Research on the Crowding-Out Effect of Corporate Financialization on R&D Innovation and Its Motivation
    General Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 21CTJ013)

  • Statistical Monitoring of Systemic Risks Induced by Corporate Financialization
    Youth Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (No. 21CTJ014)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Best Paper Award, China Fintech Research Conference, 2026 PDF

Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, Sun Yat-sen University, 2026

Job Market Star, 25th China Economic Annual Conference, 2025 PDF

Global Top 100 Young Economists (5 years or less), RePEc/IDEAS, 2025 PDF

China Excellent Young Scholar Paper Award in Finance, 2025 PDF

Top-ranked Paper, The 13th Guangdong Provincial Award for Excellence in Financial Research, 2025

Outstanding Paper Award, Conference on Financial Systems Engineering and Risk Management, 2025 PDF

Outstanding Paper Award, Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and FinTech, 2025

Outstanding Paper Award, CSOOPEM Quantitative Finance and Insurance Annual Conference, 2024 PDF

Sun Yat-sen University President's Scholarship, 2024

National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2024 PDF

National Scholarship for Master Students, 2021 PDF

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Digital Economics

It is a WeChat public account that Cunyi has operated independently since 2023. It shares current topics, academic literature, calls for papers, and policy updates related to digital economics and digital finance. To date, it has attracted over 8,000 followers, published 140+ articles, and accumulated over 300,000 total reads.

Digital Economics

Diplomatic Sentiment Index

It is a high-frequency geopolitical sentiment dataset built from official diplomatic texts from 15 countries between 2001 and 2026 using a multi-stage LLM pipeline. It supports cross-country and event-based analysis and helps predict geopolitical risk and international capital flows.

Visit DSI Observatory
WDSI

SERVICES

Assistant Editor

  • International Review of Finance, 2025-present (link)

Reviewer

  • Applied Economics, Business Strategy and the Environment, Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, International Review of Financial Analysis, Review of Development Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 《系统工程理论与实践》, etc.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant for “AI and Financial Practice,” Sun Yat-sen University, 2025

Teaching Assistant for “Digital Finance and Insurance,” Sun Yat-sen University, 2024

Teaching Assistant for “Management of New Transformations,” Sun Yat-sen University, 2023

PRESENTATIONS

China Economic Annual Conference
Beijing 2026; Shanghai 2025; Beijing 2024

Frontier Symposium on Autonomous Knowledge System in Digital Finance
Guangzhou 2026; Guangzhou 2025

CSOOPEM Quantitative Finance and Insurance Annual Conference
Yinchuan 2026; Kunming 2025; Nanjing 2024; Wuhan 2023

INFORMS Conference on Service Science
Hangzhou 2026

China FinTech Research Conference
Shenzhen 2026

China Finance Annual Conference
Nanjing 2025; Guangzhou 2024; Beijing 2023

Annual Conference of Financial Systems Engineering and Risk Management
Wuhu 2025; Beijing 2024

Greater Bay Area Digital Finance Forum
Shenzhen 2025; Guangzhou 2024; Guangzhou 2023

Conference on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and FinTech
Guangzhou 2025

Chinese Young Economists Forum
Chengdu 2025

Annual Academic Conference of the China Information Economics Association
Beijing 2024

Internet and Digital Economy Forum
Beijing 2024; Changsha 2023

Risk Management and Financial Statistics Forum
Guangzhou 2024; Guangzhou 2022; Xiamen 2021

Annual Conference on Chinese FinTech
Guangzhou 2023

International Conference on Monetary Policy Issues and Challenges for Asian Economies
Online 2021

Annual Conference of Chinese Statistical Society
Chengdu 2021

CONTRIBUTIONS IN CHINESE