His main research interests include empirical asset pricing, mutual fund performance, and real estate finance. Dr. Xue has published in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. His work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg TV and has won the second prize at the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Annual Academic Competition in 2015 and 2017. Dr. Xue has taught investments at both the undergraduate and M.B.A. levels, and theoretical and empirical asset pricing at the PhD level. In 2016, he received the Daniel J. Westerbeck Junior Faculty Graduate Teaching Award. Dr. Xue earned a B.S. in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003, a M.S. in Statistics from Michigan State University in 2006, and a PhD in Finance from the University of Michigan in 2012.