'Asset Growth and Future Stock Returns - International Evidence.' Financial Analysts Journal Vol.68. Xi Li, Ying Becker, and Didier Rosenfeld. 'Behavioral, Big Data, and Asset Management.' Keynote speaker, Hedge Fund Golden-Bull Award and 10-Year King Tower Asset Management Annul Meeting. 'Earnings Announcement Premium and Idiosyncratic Risk: Is It Consistent with Risk-Return Trade-Off?.' Southern Finance Association Annual Conference, NC, USA. 'The Current State of Quantitative Equity Investing.' CFA Research Foundation Literature Reviews Volume 13. 'Assessing Asset Tail Risk with Artificial Intelligence: The application of Artificial Neural Network.' 2019 Annual Meeting of the China International Risk Forum (CIRF), Nankai University, Tianjing, China. (2020): 23-52.īecker, Ying L., Lin Guo and Odilbek Nurmamatov. 'Assessing Asset Tail Risk with Artificial Intelligence: The application of Artificial Neural Network.' Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics, and Finance Vol. Becker's research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals and books and is a frequent speaker at academic and practitioner conferences.īecker, Ying L., Lin Guo, and Odilbek Nurmamatov. She also holds a BS and MS in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Becker earned a PhD in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a master’s degree in finance from Brandeis University. Becker also serves as an independent director and senior consultant for a Hong Kong based hedge fund, and advises several Fintech startups.ĭr. With significant investment practitioner expertise and many years of applied research experience, Professor Becker brings a unique blend of skills, knowledge, and industrial best practices to the education field.ĭr. Becker has developed based on Genetic Programming Methodology resulted in superior risk-return performance than a conventional active investment model. She pioneered the US Dynamic Equity investment product that has been categorized as “the category king” and as the top 10% among similar investment products. Many of these models and strategies have been and are still applied on managing billions of US dollars for institutional clients worldwide. Before joining academic as a fulltime professor of finance practice in 2014, Professor Becker was a managing director and a senior management group member of State Street Global Advisor, where she was leading a global team using advanced technologies to research, develop, and apply quantitative investment strategies on hundred-billion dollars of global equity asset under management. Professor Becker has over 24 years’ experience working in high technology and quantitative asset management industries.

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