Kevin M. Yuan

Professor Kevin Yuan joined Columbia Business School in 2024. He is also an Economist at Amazon on the Finance Science team. His work focuses on macroeconomics, time series forecasting, and machine learning. Prior to joining Columbia, he was a Researcher at Dimensional Fund Advisors, conducting empirical research to support portfolio design and asset allocations for investors. 
 

Kevin was a faculty member in the Department of Finance at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught courses in Investment Management. He has also taught courses in macroeconomics, corporate finance, econometrics, and investments and portfolio management at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a three-time recipient of the Joel Dean Undergraduate Teaching Award (2016, 2017, 2018).
 

Kevin has held several positions, including serving as an Associate in the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Financial Analysis Division, where he studied bank network interactions and their impact on systemic risk. At the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he worked as a Project Officer in the Research Department, examining the effects of Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) designation on insurance company stock returns. His research interests are centered around the effects of monetary policy announcements on financial markets, empirical asset pricing, and forecasting.