Matthias Buehlmaier is associate professor of teaching in finance, principal lecturer in finance, and the BBA(IBGM) program director at HKU Business School, University of Hong Kong (HKU). His official HKU webpage can be found here.

He has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge at Hughes Hall and Cambridge Judge Business School via the Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship. Moreover, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Finance, Regensburg University. Since April 2020 he is an Advance HE Fellow.

His research has appeared in the Review of Financial Studies (Oxford University Press), the Review of Finance, and is featured in the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

He is a winner of several teaching and research awards, e.g. the Outstanding Teaching Award and the Teaching Innovation Award granted by HKU, five Faculty Outstanding Teaching Awards granted by HKUBS, the inaugural Faculty Teaching Innovation Award at HKUBS, the Hong Kong Asian Capital Markets Research Price from the HKSFA, and the Stephan Koren Prize, to name a few.

His interests include:

• Investment management and investment strategies with a focus on quantamental, quantitative, or data-driven approaches
• Asset pricing, market efficiency, and price discovery
• Corporate finance and investment banking, in particular mergers & acquisitions (M&A) including leveraged buyouts (LBOs)
• Financial market stability, financial "bubbles," cycles, and crises
• Data science and big data in finance
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in finance
• Text analytics and natural language processing (NLP) in finance, e.g. textual analysis of financial media, social media, or company filings
• Bayesian data analysis
• Predictive analytics and forecasting
• Fintech and wealthtech

The first university course worldwide (to the best of his knowledge) on the topic of text analytics and natural language processing (NLP) in finance and fintech was developed and taught by him in 2018, with new iterations of the course taught every subsequent year. The course has spun-off the "NLP FinTech Forum: Text Analytics and Financial Insights Exchange" where students blog about text analytics and natural language processing in finance and fintech.

Matthias Buehlmaier holds a Ph.D. in finance from Vienna Graduate School of Finance (WU Vienna), Austria, a M.S. in mathematics from Texas A&M University–College Station, USA, and a Vordiplom in applied mathematics from Ulm University, Germany.

He graduated with distinction from the Portfolio Management Program at the ISK Research Institute for Capital Markets, Austria, where he managed a successful stock portfolio.

In addition to his academic endeavors, he is excited about staying in contact with industry practitioners, regulators, and policy makers. Feel free to reach out if you would like to discuss topics related to his interests listed above, e.g. in relation to teaching, research, speaking engagements, consulting, applied industry projects, collaboration, or other knowledge exchange activities with business, government, or the public.

Furthermore, if you are looking for talented students for internships or placements, he would be pleased to connect you with HKU Business School students.