Prof. HE Jingyu
何靖宇教授
Assistant Professor
PhD - Econometrics and Statistics (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
MBA - Business Administration (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
MS - Statistics (The University of Chicago)
BS - Statistics (University of Science and Technology of China)
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LAU-7-252
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Biography
Dr. He's research interests include machine learning in finance, empirical asset pricing, and Bayesian statistics. His research work has appeared in leading statistics, finance and econometrics journals.
Awards
| Award Title | Institution |
|---|---|
| Best Paper Award | 2024 China Fintech Research Conference |
| 2022 INQUIRE Europe Research Grant Award | INQUIRE Europe |
Research Grant
PI: "Are asset pricing models sparse?", HKRGC - General Research Fund, (2025-2027), Jingyu He, Doron Avramov
PI: "Regression Tree for Portfolio Optimization and Imbalanced Data", General Research Fund - HKRGC, (2023-2025), Jingyu He, Xin He, Guanhao Feng
PI: "What Stocks are Predictable by Machine Learning? Find Heterogenity of Stocks by Firm Characteristics", Strategic Research Grant - City University of Hong Kong, (2023-2025), Jingyu He
"Financial Systemic Risk Measures based on Monte Carlo Simulation: Theory and Methods", NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme - NSFC/RGC, (2022-2025), Jeff Hong, Guangwu Liu, Zhi Chen, Jingyu He
PI: "XBART: A Novel Tree-Based Machine Learning Framework for Regression, Classification and Treatment Effect Estimation", Early Career Scheme - HKRGC, (2022-2023), Jingyu He
PI: "Elliptical Slice Sampler for Hierarchical Models in Marketing", Start-Up Grant - City University of Hong Kong, (2021-2023), Jingyu He
Publications
Cong, Lin William; Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu; He, Xin / Growing the efficient frontier on panel trees. May 2025; In: Journal of Financial Economics. Vol. 167
Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu; Polson, Nick G.; Xu, Jianeng / Deep Learning in Characteristics-Sorted Factor Models. November 2024; In: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 3001-3036
Wang, Meijia; He, Jingyu; Hahn, P. Richard / Local Gaussian process extrapolation for BART models with applications to causal inference. 2024; In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 724-735
Paul, Erina; He, Jingyu; Mallick, Himel / Accelerated Bayesian Reciprocal LASSO. November 2023; In: Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation.
He, Jingyu; Hahn, P. Richard / Stochastic tree ensembles for regularized nonlinear regression. March 2023; In: Journal of the American Statistical Association. Vol. 118, No. 541, pp. 551–570
Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu / Factor investing: A Bayesian hierarchical approach. September 2022; In: Journal of Econometrics. Vol. 230, No. 1, pp. 183-200
Hahn, P. Richard; He, Jingyu; Lopes, Hedibert F. / Efficient Sampling for Gaussian Linear Regression With Arbitrary Priors. 2019; In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 142-154
Hahn, P. Richard; He, Jingyu; Lopes, Hedibert / Bayesian Factor Model Shrinkage for Linear IV Regression With Many Instruments. April 2018; In: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 278-287
Hahn, P. Richard; Carvalho, Carlos M.; Puelz, David; He, Jingyu / Regularization and Confounding in Linear Regression for Treatment Effect Estimation. 2018; In: Bayesian Analysis. Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 163-182
Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu; Li, Junye; Sarno, Lucio; Zhang, Qianshu / Currency Return Dynamics: What Is the Role of U.S. Macroeconomic Regimes?. July 2024;
Cong, William Lin; Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu; Wang, Yuanzhi / Mosaics of Predictability. February 2024;
Cong, Lin William; Feng, Guanhao; He, Jingyu; Li, Junye / Uncommon Factors for Bayesian Asset Clusters. September 2022;
Krantsevich, Nikolay; He, Jingyu; Hahn, P. Richard / Stochastic Tree Ensembles for Estimating Heterogeneous Effects. April 2023; Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2023. Vol. 206, pp. 6120-6131
He, Jingyu; Yalov, Saar; Hahn, P. Richard / XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression Trees. April 2019; The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. pp. 1130-1138