USC Marshall School of Business

Chao Zhuang is a Ph.D. student in Finance at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California. Prior to joining the Marshall Ph.D. program, Chao completed the Ph.D. program in mathematics at University of Georgia, where his research focused on stochastic approximations and their applications in financial optimization problems. His work has been published in Stochastic Analysis and Applications and Journal of Optimization Theory and Application. Chao has shifted his research interests toward finance. His research on finance has been presented at several academic conferences.