{"id":13,"date":"2022-01-21T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/dqfg\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:42:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T01:42:26","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/dqfg\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantitative Finance is an interdisciplinary area between Finance and Applied Mathematics. The research in this area usually requires advanced mathematical skills, such as partial differential equations, stochastic calculus and applied probability, which have been widely used in Engineering and Applied Sciences. The research outputs often have direct applications in empirical finance research and financial derivative trading.<\/p>\n<p>Our publications and events can be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/dqfg\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/dqfg\/events\/\">Events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Staff:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/people\/zhang\">Prof. Jin E. Zhang<\/a> (Director)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/people\/pakorn-beam-aschakulporn\">Dr. Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn<\/a> (Deputy Director)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>External Member:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ruanxinf\/\">A.Prof. Xinfeng (Edwin) Ruan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Current PhD Students:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Wen (Derrick) Xu<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/immizuko.github.io\/\">Ruizi Hu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tianjiao11.github.io\/\">Tianjiao Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuzhe Zhang<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/rui-chen\/home\">Rui Chen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Completed PhD Students:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/weihanliiiii.github.io\/\">Dr. Weihan Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/jefferyzhang\/\">Dr. Junyu (Jeffery) Zhang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isabellayoon.github.io\/\">Dr. Jungah (Isabella) Yoon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jirisli.github.io\/\">Dr. Jianhui (Iris) Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sxxy.hznu.edu.cn\/c\/2021-08-11\/2577095.shtml\">Dr. Wei Lin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/people\/pakorn-beam-aschakulporn\">Dr. Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/xiaolanhomepage\/home\">Dr. Xiaolan Jia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bs.usst.edu.cn\/2021\/0628\/c10586a256841\/page.htm\">Dr. Wei Guo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jgxy2.cqjtu.edu.cn\/index.php?m=content&amp;c=index&amp;a=show&amp;catid=91&amp;id=155\">Dr. Tian (Tin) Yue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/nhunguyenhomepage\/\">Dr. Thi Xuan Nhu Nguyen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/staff\/people\/otago689205.html\">Dr. Sebastian A. Gehricke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ruanxinf\/\">Dr. Xinfeng (Edwin) Ruan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cema.cufe.edu.cn\/info\/1004\/1098.htm\">Dr. Fang Zhen<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Completed Masters Students:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Trey Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>Mohan Zhang<\/li>\n<li>Vincent Mooney<\/li>\n<li>Duncan Roff<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tianjiao11.github.io\/\">Tianjiao Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yi Shi<\/li>\n<li>Jasper Struwig<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Weatherall<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Scott<\/li>\n<li>James Stanners<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Lindsay<\/li>\n<li>Samuel Kirk-Reeve<\/li>\n<li>Zisha Zhang<\/li>\n<li>Jansson Ford<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/isabellayoon.github.io\/\">Dr. Jungah (Isabella) Yoon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/people\/pakorn-beam-aschakulporn\">Dr. Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jirisli.github.io\/\">Dr. Jianhui (Iris) Li<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/staff\/people\/otago689205.html\">Dr. Sebastian A. Gehricke<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Completed Summer Research Students:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bracken Norris<\/li>\n<li>Jasper Struwig<\/li>\n<li>Andre Castaing<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/accountancyfinance\/people\/pakorn-beam-aschakulporn\">Dr. Pakorn (Beam) Aschakulporn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantitative Finance is an interdisciplinary area between Finance and Applied Mathematics. The research in this area usually requires advanced mathematical skills, such as partial differential equations, stochastic calculus and applied probability, which have been widely used in Engineering and Applied Sciences. 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