11/10/2026
“Good should combine academic depth with social, economic, and business impact,” says You Haifeng (China), a professor in the Department of Accounting at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and the Institute of Innovation Management at Tsinghua SIGS. With experience in global and academia, he studies real-world questions in investment, capital markets, and .
His interest in markets began with a simple question: What lies behind the numbers? As a student at Peking University, Prof. You became curious about how information moves, how assets are priced, and how people make decisions under uncertainty. After graduate studies in the U.S. and earning a PhD from UC Berkeley, he chose to enter the industry instead of going straight into academia. At Barclays Global Investors, he developed quantitative strategies for large-scale . Later, he led quantitative equity research at China Investment Corporation, where he helped build investment systems used to manage portfolios worth billions of dollars.
At Tsinghua, Prof. You is exploring how and are changing capital markets. In 2025, he became the director of the Research Center for AI and Capital Markets at Tsinghua SIGS, where he addresses questions that connect academic research with the needs of and . He believes that AI may eventually become so common in research and that it won’t need to be labeled separately. “I hope my research can truly serve investors, companies, and regulators,” he says.
