Baozhong Yang is the H. Talmage Dobbs Jr Chair in Finance and Associate Professor of Finance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business in Georgia State University. He is also the Director of the FinTech Lab at the Robinson College, one of the first such labs associated with a business school in the nation. He has founded and organized the GSU-RFS FinTech Conference, a leading annual FinTech conference that offers dual submission to the premier journal Review of Financial Studies. Professor Yang’s research interests span theoretical and empirical studies in FinTech, Investments, and Corporate Finance. Professor Yang’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting Research, and Management Science. Professor Yang’s research has been also well cited and widely covered by the media, including the NBER Digest, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Forbes. Professor Yang received his Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
