Zhaojun Yang received his Ph.D. in 2000 from Central South University, specializing in Mathematical Finance within Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. In 2002, he was appointed as a full professor by both the Hunan Provincial Department of Personnel and Hunan University. In 2016, he joined Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as a full-time faculty member and was selected as a long-term distinguished professor in finance under the Pengcheng Scholar Program in the same year. Currently, he serves as a tenured full professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Finance at the SUSTech Business School, where he also holds the position of Department Chair. He holds dual professorships in both mathematics and finance. Additionally, he is the Vice Chairman of the Quantitative Finance and Insurance Branch of the Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning, and Economic Mathematics, and serves as an editorial board member of the Journal of International Money and Finance. He has published nearly 200 academic papers in journals such as JFQA, Journal of Risk and Insurance, IJIO, Journal of Corporate Finance, JEDC. According to the global social science platform SSRN, he ranks among the top 0.32% of authors. He has supervised 27 Ph.D. graduates, many of whom have been selected for prestigious talent programs such as the "National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund." He has received the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Supervisor Award from both Hunan Province and SUSTech and was honored as one of the Top Ten Graduate Student Supervisors for the SUSTech Class of 2025. One of his doctoral students’ dissertations was selected for the 2025 "Contemporary Economics Doctoral Innovation Project," making it the only awardee from Guangdong Province to date. Currently, he is leading the first key project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Management Science Department) undertaken by a Shenzhen university: "Design of Asset Securitization Financing Models for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Based on Blockchain Technology." His research areas include financial theory, mathematical finance, financial engineering, quantitative finance, fintech, venture capital, private equity, asset securitization, financial contract theory and applications, and AI in finance.