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Short Bio

Welcome to my website! I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in Accounting at UBC Sauder School of Business. I will join University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor of Accounting in July 2024.

Research interests: archival-based studies in financial and managerial accounting - with special focuses on climage change, supply chain management, political costs, executive compensation, etc.

Prior to joining UBC, I obtained my Master of Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Bachelor in Economics from Wuhan University.

Please feel free to reach out and connect!

Research

Dissertation

[1] Climate-linked Pay and Supply Chain Management

Winner of 2024 WFA Brattle Group PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research
Winner of $14,000 USD academic grant of 2023 IMA Research Foundation Special Call
Selected presentations: 2024 WFA conference, 2023 NBER Conference on “Compensation of Top Executives: Determinants and Consequences”, 33rd Annual CFEA, 2023 ECGI Young Scholar Workshop

Working Papers

[2] Navigating Political Risk: The Role of Firm Political Alignment with Ping Jiang, Jing Li and Jenny Li Zhang

Major Revision at Journal of Accounting Research
Selected presentations: 2023 CICF, Peking University, University of Delaware

[3] Voluntary Climate Disclosures: A Tale of Two Venues with Sanjay Banerjee, Ailin Chen, Vikas Mehrotra and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan

Selected presentations: 2022 Canadian Sustainable Finance Network Conference, Development Bank of Japan

[4] Board Ethnic Diversity and Supply Chain Diversification with Yiwen Jin and Jenny Li Zhang

Winner of $5,000 CAD EDI Catalyst Grant of UBC Sauder School of Business
Selected presentations: 34th POMS Conference, University of Washington Fostering Inclusion Workshop, 2024 MAS Midyear Meeting

Teaching

Solo instructor

COMM 294 Managerial Accounting (Undergraduate), UBC Sauder School of Business

Teaching Evaluation (report available here): 4.8/5.0, Class size: 68.
Received the 2023 UBC Paul Chwelos Memorial Graduate Scholarship of Teaching Excellence and recognized by Dean with a Commendation in Teaching Excellence.

Teaching Assistant

BAAC 501 Financial Statement Analysis (MBA)
COMM 294 Managerial Accounting (Undergraduate)
COMR 457 Fundamental Financial Accounting (Undergraduate)