Yumin (Kenneth) Wang

Self-Introduction

My name is Yu-Min (Kenneth) Wang. I am from Taiwan and currently a PhD student in Finance at the University of Cincinnati (starting Fall 2025). My research interests include real estate finance, applied econometrics, and empirical asset pricing.

Academic Background

• M.B.A. in Quantitative Finance, National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, Aug 2022

  • Thesis: The Analysis of State-Dependent Financial Market Contagion and Dynamic Hedging

• B.Sc. in Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University (NCHU), Taiwan, Jun 2019

Professional Background

• Research Assistant, Department of Quantitative Finance, NTHU (Aug 2023 – July 2025)

  • Constructed econometric models and backtested strategies using R and Matlab.
  • Collected and cleaned data for empirical analysis (Bloomberg, Excel, R)

• Teaching Assistant, NTHU (2021)

  • Assisted in Financial Management (Graduate)
  • Assisted in Seminar on Real Estate Financial Management

Experience with R

• Applied R for econometric modeling, time series analysis, and backtesting.
• Used R in research projects, e.g., detecting bubbles in REITs markets with econometric tests, dynamic hedging with Markov-Switching models.
• Familiar with R Markdown for reproducible research and visualization.

Experience with other analytic software

• Matlab: Advanced econometric modeling and machine learning.
• Python: Applied machine learning (HMM Model), convex optimization (portfolio optimization), and web scraping
• Bloomberg Terminal: Data collection and empirical finance analysis.
• EViews, Excel, ArcGIS, LaTeX for various academic and research tasks.