Cheng Lu

Biography

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.

Research

FinTech 
Investments 
Empirical Asset Pricing 
Portfolio Theory 
Quantitative Finance 
Data Analytics

Publications

• Journal Article: A. Gupta, C. Lu, M. Simaan, M. Zaki (2025). When Positive Sentiment is not so Positive: Textual Analytics and Bank Failures. Computational Economics
• Journal Article: 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