Dr. Haizhi Wang is professor of finance at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Financial Analysis and Policy at the University of Cambridge (UK). Wang received the Founder’s Award of Excellence and the Del and Edith Karger Dissertation Prize in Management while earning his Ph.D. at Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2008. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial institutions, and entrepreneurial finance. He also works on interdisciplinary research projects linking finance to strategic management.