Sean Cao Email & Phone Number

Dr. Cao is the Director and Founding faculty of the AI Initiative for Capital Market Research and holds the position of associate professor (with tenure) at the University of Maryland. Additionally, he is an affiliated professor at Harvard Business School (D^3 Institute). Dr. Cao's research work has gained prominence in the Financial Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Quartz, and IR Magazine. Over the years, he has delivered more than 100 invited research talks at major research universities. His research papers, some co-authored with PhD students, have received several best paper awards at prestigious conferences and have been published in leading journals including the Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, and IEEE Computer. Dr. Cao also contributes as a guest associate editor at Management Science and co-chaired conferences with the Review of Financial Studies (dual submission) on Fintech and Machine Learning. (See more at https://sites.google.com/view/seancao/home). Dr. Cao is deeply committed to helping business communities through his research. He has been honored with the award by the Deloitte Initiative for AI and Learning (DIAL), leading to develop AI solutions for social inclusion and climate change. For teaching, Dr. Cao has been invited externally by major research universities to teach short-term doctoral seminars on AI and Fintech in finance and accounting. He also writes a textbook for AI in accounting runs a tutorial blog site (YouTube: Sean Cao_Fintech or Bilibili ID: Seancao_) that aims to help scholars outside of computer science smoothly adapt machine learning to finance and accounting research.Research Fellowships, Awards and Keynote talksAward recipient of Deloitte Initiative for AI and Learning for developing responsible AI for social equity and climate change American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Best paper award winner (with coauthors), From Man vs. Machine to Man + Machine: The Art and AI of Stock Analyses, 2022 Midwest Finance AssociationBest Paper Award Winner (with coauthors), How to Talk When Machines are Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI, 2021 CAPANA Research ConferenceKeynote and Panel Speaker for “Latest NLP models in capital market research” at Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München), Germany, Nov 18 - 19, 2021

Listed skills include Mandarin, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, R, and 9 others.

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  University Of Illinois System

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