Dr. Lu Zong is currently an associate professor in the Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, in 2015. She joined Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in 2016 as a lecturer, and since 2019, she has been an associate professor. She successfully completed one Jiangsu Science and Technology Program. Her teaching disciplines include multivariable calculus, final year project, foundations of financial computing,
introduction to financial mathematics, financial modeling with Excel VBA, computational methods in finance I, and dissertation writing. In addition, her research interests include textual analysis for cyber risk management, network analysis for global capital flow, developing and applying deep learning algorithms in
financial risk prediction, financial contagion and risk transmission channels, and financial early earning systems.
Dr. Feng Liu obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal
University. He is a senior member of the Chinese Computer Federation, a member of the Blockchain Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation, and a member of the Shanghai Big Data Society Application Research Association. He researched and published dozens of core journals/conference papers, invention patents, utility model patents, software copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. His main research interests are in areas such as computational affection, computational perception, artificial intelligence and data science.
