Yueliang (Jacques) Lu

I took the GRAD 6210/8210 Graduate-Level Writing for International Students led by Dr. Lisa Russell-Pinson in Fall 2021. In our first assingment, we are asked to interview a scholar, as well as to conduct research on our own, to learn about academic writing in my discipline, finance. Gratefully, I talked to Dr. Gene Lai, Professor in Risk Management and Insurance, and read the well-known Writing Tips for Ph. D. Students by John H. Cochrane.

As an international student/scholar, writing is perhaps one of the obstales that continue to challenge my academic confidence. As hilighted in the GRAD 6210/8210 course website, "Writing is a skill that can be learned and continuously improved through research-based instruction, ongoing practice, and constructive feedback."

You can find the presentation slides here, and feel free to share it with others who are faced with similar struggles in writing.

I give a lecture on volatility trading to graduate students in Quantitative Risk Management of the Belk College of Business at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I discussed implied volatility, VIX futures, VIX options, and volatility derivatives pricing.

You can find the slides here and the source code on Github.