Leonard Yang Liu

Leonard Yang Liu

Ph.D. Candidate in Accounting
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland, College Park

About

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Accounting at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, advised by Musa Subasi and Michael Kimbrough. My research studies how new technologies, especially artificial intelligence and generative AI, are changing the way financial information is produced and used in capital markets. I am also interested in financial intermediaries and behavioral finance. My dissertation won the Texas A&M AI Dissertation Award in Accounting (2026), one of my papers was recognized as the Best Paper in Fintech at the 2024 SFA Annual Meeting, and I have received multiple awards, such as the Frank T. Paine Award for Academic Achievement and the Long Jiang Graduate Student Fellowship.

Before the Ph.D., I worked as an investment manager in Beijing and as an auditor at Ernst & Young. I hold an M.S. in Management from Peking University and a B.S. in Accounting from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.