Contact Info
Name: Yandi Zhu
Email: yandi.zhu@cufe.edu.cn
Address: School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, Shahe Advanced Education Park, Changping District, Beijing, 102206
Personal website: yandi-zhu.github.io
Education
2021.09 – 2025.06 Peking University, Ph.D. in Finance
2019.09 – 2021.06 Renmin University of China, M.S. in Applied Statistics
2015.09 – 2019.06 Renmin University of China, B.S. in Statistics & B.E. in Economics
Professional Experience
2025.07 – present: Assistant Professor, School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics
Research Interests
Empirical Asset Pricing; Machine Learning; Behavioral Finance
Publications
5. Zhang, Yingguang, Yandi Zhu*, and Juhani T. Linnainmaa. “Man versus Machine Learning Revisited.” Review of Financial Studies (2025), forthcoming.
4. Liu, Yunting, and Yandi Zhu. “Good idiosyncratic volatility, bad idiosyncratic volatility, and the cross-section of stock returns.” Journal of Banking & Finance 170 (2025): 107343.
3. Liu, Laura Xiaolei, Yandi Zhu, Xinyu Zhang, and Yingguang Zhang. “Expectation disarray: Analysts' growth forecast anomaly in China.” Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 82 (2023): 102192.
2. 刘蕴霆，朱彦頔*. 中国经济微观不确定性的测度和效应研究. 《经济学动态》(2023): 35-53. （封面文章）
- 中国人民大学复印报刊资料全文转载, 《国民经济管理》2023年第7期
1. Zhu, Yandi, Xiaoling Lu, Jingya Hong, and Feifei Wang. “Joint dynamic topic model for recognition of lead-lag relationship in two text corpora.” Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 36.6 (2022): 2272-2298.
（* Corresponding author）
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant:
Security Analysis PKU, Fall 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Fixed-income Securities PKU, Spring 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Introduction to Data Science RUC, Spring 2021
Time Series Analysis RUC, Fall 2020
Honors
Peking University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation 2025
14th&15th “Chen Daisun” Innovative Talent Award 2024, 2025
Peking University Presidential Ph.D. Fellowship 2023
Excellent Graduate of Beijing 2019
Merit Student of Beijing 2018
