Jinfei Sheng is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since July 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Professor Sheng’s research interests span Empirical Asset Pricing, Investments, AI & FinTech, and Behavioral Finance, with a focus on big data, textual analysis, and machine learning. A central theme of his work is understanding the role of information in financial markets. He studies a wide range of information sources, including macroeconomic news, earnings announcements, news articles, online reviews, cryptocurrency whitepapers, and mutual fund prospectuses, and explores their implications for asset prices, investor behavior, and market efficiency. His research also extends to labor finance and financial intermediation.

Professor Sheng’s work has been published in leading finance journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Review of Asset Pricing Studies. He has presented at premier academic conferences such as the American Finance Association and NBER Asset Pricing Meeting, and has been invited to speak at top financial institutions, including Citadel, BlackRock, and Citibank. His research has received multiple awards, including the CICF XiYue Best Paper Award and Berkeley RDI AI & Decentralization Innovation Award, and has been featured in media outlets such as MarketWatch and Forbes. In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor for the Annual Review of FinTech and as a reviewer for major finance journals and conferences.

At UC Irvine, Professor Sheng developed a new FinTech course for undergraduate and graduate students and serves as the founding faculty advisor for the Anteater Crypto Association and the Irvine FinTech Association. He also teaches Managerial Finance for MBA students and previously taught Corporate Finance at UBC. He has been recognized with excellence in teaching awards at both UCI and UBC.