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Robert Engle is the Director of the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai and the Director of The Volatility and Risk Institute at NYU. 

Professor Engle is also the Professor Emeritus of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on the concept of autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). He developed this method for statistical modeling of time-varying volatility and demonstrated that these techniques accurately capture the properties of many time series. Professor Engle shared the prize with Clive W. J. Granger of the University of California at San Diego.

He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 1969. 

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Wang Jianye, was Honorary Co-Director of the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai. He served as Honorary Head of Guangzhou Institute of International Finance, Managing Director of the Silk Road Fund, Economic Counselor and
Chief Economist of the Export-Import Bank of China, and held various positions at the International Monetary Fund. He was elected Rotating Secretary General of the IWG (International Working Group on Export Credits), also served as a Governor of the CCL(Centre for Creative Leadership) Board. He holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University and a BA from Peking University.

Zhou Xin is the Executive Director of Volatility Institute at New York University at Shanghai. Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. in Finance and MA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas, MA and BS in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include empirical asset pricing, market anomalies, risk modeling and management, and private equity investment.

Dr. Wang ia currently a Research Fellow of the VINS, he received his Ph.D. in Finance from Fudan University, MA in Econometrics from Xiamen University, and BS in Physics from Peking University. His research interests include asset pricing and corporate finance.