Oliver Linton is the Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. A leading econometrician and financial economist, his extensive research focuses on nonparametric estimation, time series analysis, and empirical finance.

Shaoran Li is an assistant professor in the School of Economics, Peking University. His research focuses on financial econometrics, empirical asset pricing and machine learning, with work published in leading international journals.

Shuyi Ge is an associate professor in the School of Finance, Nankai University. Her research focuses on empirical asset pricing, financial econometrics, networks and machine learning, with work published in leading international journals.