Dr. Cathy Chen

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Biography

Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen joined the Adam Smith Business School in March 2019 as a Professor of Corporate Finance and Banking. She previously held a position at the School of Business & Economics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, as a Mercator Fellow in the International Research Training Group 1792. Her recent work focuses on the intersection of technology, data science, and finance. She is the principal investigator of the FinTech Action founded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology and has been nominated as a Management Committee substitute representing the UK in the EU FinTech Action. Chen is a member of the school's Finance research cluster with a specialization in Blockchain, analytics, digital currencies, Machine Learning in finance, network modeling, and sentiment analysis. She has also supervised numerous doctoral projects with specific interest in topics such as Robo-advisors and compressed time series text regression. Chen is recognized for her contributions to academic journals and serves on the editorial boards of various publications related to finance and computational statistics.

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Professor

2019-03-01 — Present

Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland

Teaching and researching Corporate Finance and Banking.