(Albert) Bo ZHAO 赵博

Hi! I’m an assistant professor at School of Finance, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. My research interests include Institutional Economics, Machine Learning and Quantitative Finance. I’ve been teaching econometrics, risk management and quantitative investment at Nankai since 2016. I love basketball and I play a little piano. My office is at Room 520, School of Finance. You may reach me at zhaobo@nankai.edu.cn.

Education:

• PhD in Economics, The University of Hong Kong, 2016.
• Master of Financial Engineering, Xiamen University, 2011.
• Bachelor of Computational Mathematics, Nanjing University, 2007.

Curriculum vitae: CV

你好！我是赵博，目前在南开大学金融学院担任助理教授。我的研究兴趣包括：制度经济学，机器学习和量化投资。我当前的教学主要包括《计量经济学》和《量化投资》。我喜欢打篮球，也弹一点钢琴。我的办公室在金融学院520，我的邮箱是zhaobo@nankai.edu.cn。

The Name Dilemma

In daily life, I go by Bo Zhao. But when publishing academic papers, I use Albert Bo Zhao—mostly to avoid an identity crisis. You see, the economics and finance world is already packed with heavyweight Bo Zhaos. There’s Bo Zhao at the Boston Fed (link), Bo Zhao at PKU (link), and Bo Zhao at the IMF (link).

As a result, I used to get misdirected emails sometimes. So, to make life easier, I publish as Albert Bo Zhao (my friends call me 阿博 (A-Bo)—so Albert just felt like a natural choice). But don’t worry—if you’re emailing me about lunch plans, Bo is just fine.

Fun fact: The IMF’s Bo Zhao and I not only share the same name but also the same undergraduate alma mater. When we overlapped at HKU, we’ve joked that we had quite the presence—at least on paper.