Xiaochuan Tong

Dr. Xiaochuan Tong is an assistant teaching professor of finance in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. He also serves as the assistant director of Fintech initiative and advises the “Disrupt” student Fintech club. Tong teaches courses at the graduate level and the undergraduate level, such as Introduction to Fintech, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Northeastern, he taught at Lehigh University, Bradley University, UMass Boston, and King’s College London.

Tong’s research interests relate to topics of behavioral finance, particularly, the psychological and sociological approaches to finance (e.g., cognitive limits, distorted beliefs, peer effects, wisdom of crowds). One series of his research, for instance, investigates how social interactions alter retail trader decision-making, leveraging proprietary datasets and modern analytical techniques, such as textual analysis and big data analytics. Another series of his research examines the power dynamics among various market actors (e.g., corporate directors, CEOs, investors, regulators) under government ownership and the associated outcomes.

Dr. Tong practiced in the Fintech sector. He is an Associate of King’s College London (AKC) and an Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA), United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the KPMG Outstanding Dissertation Award and the King’s Global Research Grant. In addition, he held a Royster Global Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Global Teaching and Learning Fellowship at Lehigh University, and a visiting position at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.