Kun Li is Associate Professor of Finance at Beijing Normal University, China. Dr. Li is an Affiliated Researcher at the Center for Strategic Finance (CSF) at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business, and had been an Entrepreneurship & Innovation Research Fellow at the Smart Grid Cluster funded and supported by the US Small Business Administration and Department of Energy, a Quantitative Researcher at the CME Group. Dr. Li works on topics in the areas of Financial Markets, Market Microstructure, and Applied Economics. His work is published in academic journals in economics and finance, including Economics Letters, Singapore Economic Review, Electronic Commerce Research, and Journal of Behavioral Finance. Dr. Li is a recipient of the outstanding university faculty award at Beijing, the Peng-nian outstanding young faculty award, Excellence in Teaching Award. He was the winner of Second prize in the 2019 University Faculty Teaching Contest at Beijing, and the winner of First prize & Best teaching performance award in 2018 Beijing Normal University Faculty Teaching Contest. His courses, “Principle of Finance” and “Investments” (taught in English) were selected into the University Model Curricula.