He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and joined HKU as Assistant Professor of Finance in 2015. He finished his undergraduate study at Tsinghua University in 2009. Zigan’s research interests are primarily empirical finance, including empirical corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, and international finance. He specializes in social network analysis and natural language parsing. He has published several papers in academic finance journals such as Journal of International Economics and Journal of Business & Economics Research.