Education

2018 – 2024 National University of Singapore Ph.D. in Finance

2014 – 2018 Central University of Finance and Economics B.A. in Finance

Work Experience

2023 INSEAD Visiting Researcher

Please visit my personal website for my latest research: https://sites.google.com/view/zhenghuini/home 

Empirical Investment, Generative AI and Financial Markets

Selected Academic Articles

1. “The Impact of Generative AI on Information Processing: Evidence from the Ban of ChatGPT in Italy” (with Jeremy Bertomeu, Yupeng Lin and Yibin Liu) Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2025 

2. “What Are the Costs of Delayed Technology Adoption? Evidence from Italy’s Ban of ChatGPT” (with Jeremy Bertomeu, Yupeng Lin and Yibin Liu) 

3. “Voluntary Disclosure, Misinformation and AI Information Processing: Theory and Evidence” (with Jeremy Bertomeu, Yupeng Lin and Yibin Liu) R&R 

4. “Active Mutual Fund Common Owners: Returns and Proxy Voting Behavior” (with Ben Charoenwong and Qiaozhi Ye) R&R 

5. “The Dark Side of Geographically Dispersed Information: Evidence from Lockdowns on Subsidiaries” (with Allaudeen Hameed, Massimo Massa, and Zhou Zhou) 

6. “The Value of Brick and Mortar: Geographic Presence in International Asset Management” (with Allaudeen Hameed and Massimo Massa) 

7. “Earnings Heuristics and Long-Term Stock Returns” (with Allaudeen Hameed and Massimo Massa)

8. “Momentum and Individual Investor Trades: Evidence from Singapore” (with Allaudeen Hameed and Chek Ann Tan) Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023, Invited to the Special Issue to honor Jegadeesh and Titman's Seminal Paper on Momentum (1993)

Selected Presentations at Academic Meetings

2025 - AFA, MFA*

2024 - Columbia & RFS AI in Finance Conference*, Bretton Woods Accounting and Finance Ski Conference*

2023 - ABFER, MFA(×2)*, EFA Poster*, NFI-Oxford Conference, UIUC*, Paris Financial Management Conference (Cancelled), Tilburg Winter Symposium and Research Camp, FMA PhD Consortium, Baruch College*, University of Illinois Chicago*, Stevens Institute of Technology*, University at Buffalo SUNY, NUS Finance, Fudan*, Washington University in St Louis*, Baruch College*, Lixin*, Rugters

2022 - FMA Global*, FMA*, CICF, NUS RMI

2021 - SoFiE Financial Econometrics Summer School

2017 - The 3rd Camphor Economist Circle English Workshop

(* presented by co-authors)