Research Areas

1. Corporate Finance & Signal Processing

  1. Corporate Finance & Signal Processing

How does public information affect financial markets? What role do credit rating agencies play? How can we quantify the information of textual information using natural language processing?

2. Computer Science, Statistics & Machine Learning

  1. Computer Science, Statistics & Machine Learning

How can we better evaluate ML algorithms? How can we achieve self- and semi-supervised learning?

3. Fairness & Road Traffic Control

  1. Fairness & Road Traffic Control

What is fairness? Are fairness and efficiency conflicting goals? How can we allocate spatio-temporal resources in equitable societies?

Featured Publications

Urban Priority Pass: Fair Signalized Intersection Management Accounting For Passenger Needs Through Prioritization

Urban Priority Pass: Fair Signalized Intersection Management Accounting For Passenger Needs Through Prioritization

Over the past few decades, efforts of road traffic management and practice have predominantly focused on maximizing system efficiency …

Karma economies for sustainable urban mobility–a fair approach to public good value pricing

Karma economies for sustainable urban mobility–a fair approach to public good value pricing

City road infrastructure can be considered a public good, and congestion is the intersection of demand for mobility with the limited …

Quantitative Fairness--A Framework For The Design Of Equitable Cybernetic Societies

Quantitative Fairness–A Framework For The Design Of Equitable Cybernetic Societies

Advancements in computer science, artificial intelligence, and control systems of the recent have catalyzed the emergence of cybernetic …

Do acquirers care about credit rating consequences? Evidence from credit rating watches

Do acquirers care about credit rating consequences? Evidence from credit rating watches

We analyze corporate acquisition announcements and the feedback of credit rating agencies by placing the acquirer’s issuer rating under …

Equitable urban traffic management systems with Karma congestion pricing

Equitable urban traffic management systems with Karma congestion pricing

Most cities do not charge for driving. Do you think that is fair? It causes externalities such as noise and pollution to residents and …

Resource Allocation with Karma Mechanisms—A Review

Resource Allocation with Karma Mechanisms—A Review

Monetary markets serve as established resource allocation mechanisms, typically achieving efficient solutions with limited information. …

Towards fair roads--Why we should & how to improve the fairness in traffic engineering

Towards fair roads–Why we should & how to improve the fairness in traffic engineering

Traffic engineering aims to control infrastructure and population behavior to achieve optimal usage of road networks. Fairness is …

On the scientometric value of full-text, beyond abstracts and titles: evidence from the business and economic literature

On the scientometric value of full-text, beyond abstracts and titles: evidence from the business and economic literature

Are abstracts or titles a good proxy for what an article contains? The majority of scientometric studies have used easily accessible …

Corporate Bond Market Event Studies: Event-Induced Variance and Liquidity

Corporate Bond Market Event Studies: Event-Induced Variance and Liquidity

This paper addresses the power of event studies in corporate bond markets. While an approach using standardized abnormal returns is …

Hierarchical confusion matrix for classification performance evaluation

Hierarchical confusion matrix for classification performance evaluation

This study proposes the novel concept of hierarchical confusion matrix, opening the door for popular confusion-matrix-based (flat) …

TransposonUltimate: software for transposon classification, annotation and detection

TransposonUltimate: software for transposon classification, annotation and detection

Most genomes harbor a large number of transposons, and they play an important role in evolution and gene regulation. They are also of …

Capturing GreenTech-related Commercial Activities of Listed Companies

Capturing GreenTech-related Commercial Activities of Listed Companies

The purpose of this work is to investigate whether news flows can be used to effectively capture financial success of green commercial …

Political and Socioeconomic Factors That Determine the Financial Outcome of Successful Green Innovation

Political and Socioeconomic Factors That Determine the Financial Outcome of Successful Green Innovation

Green innovation and technology diffusion must be financially and commercially attractive to convince corporate decision makers. This …

PE-MIU: A Training-Free Privacy-Enhancing Face Recognition Approach Based on Minimum Information Units

PE-MIU: A Training-Free Privacy-Enhancing Face Recognition Approach Based on Minimum Information Units

Research on soft-biometrics showed that privacy-sensitive information can be deduced from biometric data. Utilizing biometric templates …