Yingying joined IBSS in August 2014 after spending three years and a half as a doctoral researcher at ICMA Centre, University of Reading. Her research area lies in the field of commodity derivatives markets. Prior to joining IBSS, Yingying was an OIES- Saudi Aramco Research Fellow at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Yingying has presented at internationalfinance conferences, e.g., Global Finance Association annual meeting, Financial Management Association annual meeting. She has also co-written a chapter about the application of Kalman Filter in commodity futures modelling, which is collected in the `Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Empirical Finance’. Yingying continues to expand her research areas and explore new, innovative paths that cross different disciplines and in the new emerging markets.

Commodity market Financial derivatives Macroeconomics Risk management Empirical asset pricing

OIES-Saudi Aramco research fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies - 2014 to 2014

Teaching Assistant, University of Reading - 2010 to 2014

ACF212 Financial Instruments

ACF108 Introduction to Finance

ACF409 Quantitative Methods for Finance

ACF415 Industry Research Project

ACF601 PhD Supervision

MAN303 Final Year Project

2015 Jiangsu Province Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award: top oversea PhD, Jiangsu Province

2012 Best Paper Award, Global Finance Conference

2012 Scholarship from ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading