Hong Ru

Hong Ru is a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and a tenured Associate Professor in the Banking & Finance division at Nanyang Business School, NTU. He holds dual affiliations, combining roles in finance academia with research leadership in interdisciplinary fields.

Education: PhD in Finance (MIT Sloan, 2015), Master of Finance (MIT Sloan, 2010 inaugural class). His research focuses on financial intermediaries, Chinese economy dynamics, corporate finance structures, and household finance behavior. He has published in top journals like Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science, and received multiple best paper awards.

Research Leadership: Director of the Centre of Excellence International Trading (CEIT) and former Director of the Centre for RMB Internalisation Studies (CRIS) at NTU. His work bridges theoretical finance with applied computational methods, evident in his recent contributions to combinatorial optimization and graph-matching algorithms.

Awards and Recognition: Best Paper Awards at AFA, EFA, and NBER conferences, alongside Research Excellence Awards for sustained contributions. His research has been featured in major media including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and China Daily.

Interdisciplinary Impact: Active in computational finance and AI-driven optimization, with publications addressing molecular generation, graph neural networks, and algorithmic efficiency in logistics and chemistry. His work reflects a dual focus on financial theory and cutting-edge machine learning applications.