She received her PhD from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in 2016. Prior to that she obtained her Master’s degree in finance from Peking University and undergraduate degree in financial engineering from Wuhan University. Professor Hu’s research lies at the intersection of accounting and finance, with a focus on empirical research that is closely guided by economic theory and that employs strong identification. Specifically, she studies how the increase of public availability of trading data at the market place affects firms’ disclosure and reporting decisions. She also has expertise in textual analysis, and has introduced a new specificity measure for qualitative disclosure in a paper forthcoming in Review of Accounting Studies.