Chen, Nan

Professor

Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Director

Bachelor of Engineering Programme in Financial Technology, CUHK

Centre for Financial Enginnering, CUHK

Master of Science Programme in Financial Engineering, CUHK(Shenzhen)

  • Office: Room 709A, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building
  • Phone: (852) 3943-8237       Fax: (852) 2603-5505
  • Email: @se.cuhk.edu.hk


Doctoral Students

  • Xiangwei Wan,
    Graduation year: 2010,
    Dissertation title: "A Study of Convertible Bond: Optimal Strategies and Pricing",
    First position: Assistant Professor, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Zhengyu Huang,
    Graduation year: 2012,
    Dissertation title: "Exact Simulation and Importance Sampling of Diffusion Processes",
    First position: Quantitative Analyst, Shanghai Long Life Investment Co., Ltd.
  • Yanchu Liu,
    Graduation year: 2012,
    Dissertation title: " Monte Carlo Simulation in Risk Estimation",
    First position: Assistant Professor, Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University.
  • Nian Yang,
    Graduation year: 2013,
    Dissertation title: "Computational Issues of Stochastic-Alpha-Beta-Rho (SABR) Model",
    First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Finance and Insurance, School of Business, Nanjing University.
  • Wei Yu,
    Graduation year: 2014,
    Dissertation title: "A Supersolution/Subsolution-Based Iteration Approach for SDP and RSDP",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, WorldQuant, LLC.
  • Xin Liu,
    Graduation year: 2015,
    Dissertation title: "An Optimization View of Financial Systemic Risk",
    First position: Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, Business School, Yangzhou University.
  • Yiwei Wang,
    Graduation year: 2017,
    Dissertation title: "Simulation and Estimation from Characteristic Functions",
    First position: Lecturer, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University.
  • Yan Wang,
    Graduation year: 2018,
    Dissertation title: "Transitory Behaviors of Large Population Game,"
    First position: OTC Option Department, CITIC Securities Capital Management, Shanghai, China.
  • Jing Chen,
    Graduation year: 2018,
    Dissertation title: "Leverage Constraint, Market Liquidity, and Systemic Fragility",
    First position: Senior AI Algorithm Engineer, KUAYUE-EXPRESS, Shenzhen, China.
  • Xiang Ma,
    Graduation year: 2019,
    Dissertation title: "Two Problems in Stochastic Control: A Dual Based Approach with Information Relaxation and Optimal Spread Crossing in A Limit Order Book Market",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, High-Flyer Quant, Hangzhou, China.
  • Yueting Hu,
    Graduation year: 2020,
    Dissertation title: "Approximate Likelihood Estimators for Discretely Observed Jump-Diffusions",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, Pinpoint, Shanghai, China.
  • Jiahui Ji,
    Graduation year: 2021,
    Dissertation title: "Liquidity, Debt Overhang, and Investment",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, WorldQuant, Shanghai, China.
  • Jia Li,
    Graduation year: 2023,
    Dissertation title: "Duality-based Approach with Information Relaxation in Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, JP Morgan, Beijing, China.
  • Qiheng Ding,
    Graduation year: 2023,
    Dissertation title: "Studies on Internal Liquidity and Market Liquidity",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, Bopu Fund, Shenzhen, China.
  • Chengli Ren,
    Graduation year: 2023,
    Dissertation title: "Two Topics in Financial Engineering: Ito-Taylor Expansion of Jump-diffusion Processes and Evolutionary Game for MARL",
    First position: Quantitative Researcher, Axiom Quant, Beijing, China.

Post-doctoral Fellows


Awards Received by Supervised Students
  • Xin Liu. Finalist (top 5), Best Student Research Paper Competition, Section of Financial Service, INFORMS, 2015.
  • Xin Liu. Second Place Prize, Best Student Research Paper Competition, The 3rd Asian Quantitative Finance Conference, 2015.
  • Xiangwei Wan. Second Place Prize, Best Student Research Paper Competition, Section of Financial Service, INFORMS, 2010.
  • Xiangwei Wan. Outstanding Thesis Award, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.
  • Jing Chen. 上海證券交易所證券信息技術研究發展中心2021年度行業共研課題三等獎, 2021.