Xiaotong SUN, PhD in Finance
Assistant Professor
Contact Details
Telephone: 85902316
Email: xtsun@cityu.edu.mo
Academic Qualifications
PhD in Finance, University of Glasgow, UK
MSc in Financial Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK
Bachelor in Economics (Mathematical Economics), Fudan University, China
Bibliography
Dr. Xiaotong Sun is currently an Assistant Professor of Finance at Faculty of Finance of City University of Macau. She received her PhD in Finance from University of Glasgow and was a teaching assistant at the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow. Xiaotong’s research interests centre around blockchain and cryptocurrency. She possesses a track record of delivering her research papers at academic conferences and has engaged in collaborations with researchers from different countries.
Research Areas
Financial Technology, blockchain and cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
Teaching Areas
Introduction to Financial Technology
Work Experience
2024-present: Assistant Professor of Finance, City University of Macau
Academic Paper
- "Decentralized illusion in Decentralized Finance: Evidence from tokenized voting in MakerDAO polls", with Charalampos Stasinakis and Georgios Sermpinis, Journal of Financial Stability, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2024.101286
Selected Awards
- Best PhD Paper, Cryptocurrency Research Conference (2021.9)
- First Prize in Global Financial Technology Application and Innovation Competition, Fudan University and Peking University (2020.9)
- First Prize in UBS Global Markets Hackathon, UBS (2019.12)