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Cheng Lu
Assistant Professor, Accounting and Finance, Feliciano School of Business
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- Feliciano School of Business 356
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- luc@montclair.edu
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Cheng Lu is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Feliciano School of Business, Montclair State University. He received his Ph.D. in Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. His research and teaching focus on fintech, investments, empirical asset pricing, and the use of data-driven methods in finance. He also has prior industry experience in quantitative research at Wells Fargo.
Specialization
FinTech
Investments
Empirical Asset Pricing
Quantitative Finance
Data Analytics
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Montclair State University (2025 - Present)
- Quantitative Analytics Intern, Wells Fargo (2025 - 2025)
Refereed Published Articles
- A. Gupta, C. Lu, M. Simaan, M. Zaki (2025). When Positive Sentiment is not so Positive: Textual Analytics and Bank Failures. Computational Economics
- C. Lu, P. Ndiaye, M. Simaan (2024). Improved estimation of the correlation matrix using reinforcement learning and text-based networks. International Review of Financial Analysis