YUE ZHENG 6214 Westchester Park Drive College Park, MD 20740 yue.zheng@rhsmith.umd.edu 314-660-6283 EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, College Park, MD Doctoral Student in Accounting 09/2012- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, OLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL, St. Louis, MO Master of Accounting • GPA: 3.94/4.00 2011-2012 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS, Beijing, China Bachelor of Management, Accounting • GPA: 4.01/4.50 2007-2011 RESEARCH INTERESTS • Corporate Governance, Disclosure and Regulation, Accounting and Macroeconomics WORK IN PROGRESS • “The source of financing and firm performance post Chapter-11 emergence”, with Rebecca Hann and Hanna Lee. • “The market reaction to Pay Ratio Disclosure rule”, with Michael Kimbrough, Jim Staihar and Sijing Wei. • “CEO Reputation: A Credit Scorecard Measure”, with Yi Cao OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE INNOVATION EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT, Beijing, China PROJECT: THE INVESTOR SENTIMENT AND ACCRUALS ANOMALY Research Member Investigated the relevance of the investor sentiment to the accruals anomaly Awarded “The Excellent Project” in final review ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RESEARCH: • Institutional Investors and Accruals Anomaly (2009) AWARD & GROUP MEMBERSHIP • • • • • • Social Chair, Association of Doctoral Students, R.H. Smith School of Business (2013-2014) The Master of Accounting Charles F. Knight Scholar Award (2012) Beta Gamma Sigma – the international honor society (2012) 1st Prize Scholarship at Central University of Finance and Economics (2009) Zheng zhigang Scholarship - Elite Award (China Young Leaders Foundation, 2010) 3rd Prize in Deloitte Cup Treatise Competition (2009) 2008-2011