Finance PhD Candidate · University of Florida

Mingyin Zhu

Research areas: Investments · Institutional Investors · AI & FinTech


I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Finance at the University of Florida. My research studies investment management, institutional investors, capital markets, and the use of artificial intelligence in finance.

I earned an MS in Finance and a BS in Mathematics and Statistics, with a minor in Computer Science, from the University of Florida. Before beginning the PhD program, I worked in investment research at River Road Asset Management.

Mingyin Zhu

Selected research

All research
  • Reaching for Synthetic Yield

    with Wei Jiang, Yuehua Tang, and Yanbin Wu

    Working paper

  • The Memorization Problem: Can We Trust LLMs' Economic Forecasts?

    with Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Yuehua Tang

    Working paper