Winners
Assistant Professor of Finance
Christina Dan Wang is Associate Professor of Finance at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, Wang was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University and a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Operations Research and Financial Engineering department and at the Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University.
Assistant Professor of Practice in Finance
Jingyuan Mo is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Finance at NYU Shanghai. Jingyuan holds a PhD in Finance from NYU Stern, an MS in Financial Mathematics from Stanford, an MSc in Risk Management and Financial Engineering from Imperial College, and a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge. Jingyuan's expertise lies in the areas of theoretical and empirical asset pricing, fixed-income securities, portfolio management, and alternative investment strategies.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Writing Program
Fernando Romero is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai. Before joining NYU Shanghai, he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Goucher College. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in international and political theory with a marked humanities influence, drawing from philosophy, history, and literature.
His teaching promotes interdisciplinary cross-cultural inquiry and effective communication of ideas. His teaching at NYU Shanghai has been recognized with the Teaching Excellence Award.
His research aims to bridge insights across the sciences and humanities, focusing on how human and non-human complex systems reproduce processes that are both self-organizing and self-destructive in technology, society, markets, and thought. Current research projects include interdisciplinary studies of stupidity and its relation to cognition, inheritance and estate taxation policy discourses and their relation to value systems, and collaborations in maladaptive behavior clinical psychology studies.
Finalists
- Jieun Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Lihua Xu, Area Head of Computer Science, Professor of Practice in Computer Science
- Eric Endo, Assistant Professor of Practice in Mathematics
- Aleksandar Stojanovic, Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics
Committee for AY 24/25
| Role | Name | Area |
| Faculty | Pekka Santtila (Chair) | Social Sciences |
| Faculty | Zhibin Chen | CSDSE |
| Faculty | Linmin Zhang | Neural Science |
| Faculty | Offer Shapir | Business |
| Student | Maggie Zhang | Junior |
| Student | Bonnie Chang | Freshman |