Tian Tao

Tian Tao

PhD Student

University College Dublin

About

I am a PhD candidate in Banking and Finance at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin, Supervised by Prof. Cal Muckley.

Prior to this, I obtained an MSc in Financial Data Science from University College Dublin and a BEng in Information Engineering from Shanghai Polytechnic University.

Research Interests

Financial Intermediation, Corporate Finance, Machine Learning, Generative AI, Labor Economics.

Selected Working Paper

Soft Information Imbalance Is Bad for Fair Credit Allocation

with Cal Muckley and Xiangyang Zhao

Presentations: 2026 EFA Poster Session, 2026 EEA-ESEM, 12th Workshop on Banking and Institutions (Helsinki), IRMC 2026 Conference, 2026 EFiC Conference in Banking and Corporate Finance, 2026 IAFA Annual Conference, 2026 EDHEC Business School Research Seminar, 2026 UCD Financial Markets Research Seminar, 2026 IAF Conference, 2025 China Finance Annual Meeting, 2025 Irish Annual Doctoral Colloquium in Finance, 2025 Renmin University of China Research Seminar, 2025 UCD PhD Symposium.