University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing

Jiajing Sun

Associate Professor in Statistics and Data Science

Financial Econometrics  ·  Time Series  ·  Risk Modelling  ·  CFA  ·  FIMA

I am an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Statistics and Data Science at UCAS. My research develops econometric methods for financial, economic, and environmental data, especially functional time series, adjusted-range self-normalisation, structural-change monitoring, and risk modelling. I have built foundations for regulatory early-warning systems with the China Financial Futures Exchange, developed a digital-finance competitiveness index from data on 541 Chinese small and medium banks, and worked on environmental management and ecological economics, including virtual water in global supply chains. My academic work also includes postgraduate teaching and textbook writing in financial econometrics, time series analysis, FinTech, and regression with R/Python, where I emphasise empirical applications, quantitative reasoning, and reproducible coding practice.

Research

Econometric methods for financial, economic, and environmental data

My methodological work centres on time-series econometrics, including the Adjusted-Range Self-Normalisation framework for robust inference on long-run variances under strong dependence and heavy tails — alongside functional time series and self-normalised monitoring.

On the applied side, my work spans financial risk, digital finance, environmental management, and ecological economics. This includes regulatory early-warning research for derivatives markets, text- and machine-learning-based evaluation of financial-technology competitiveness, and virtual water in global supply chains.

Financial econometrics· Functional time series· Self-normalisation· Risk monitoring· Machine learning in economics· Environmental management· Ecological economics

Talks

Selected talks and seminars

I present regularly at international meetings in econometrics and statistics — among them the World, European, Asian, North American, and Australian meetings of the Econometric Society, SoFiE, and CMStatistics — and at invited university seminars. Slides are shared where I can.

Online monitoring of financial functional time series

Slides (PDF) Interactive figure

4th IMA Conference on Mathematics of Finance & Insurance · Liverpool, UK · 19 June 2026

Sequential change-point detection: an adjusted-range self-normalisation approach

Slides (PDF)

CEA (Europe) & CEA (UK) Annual Conference, Glasgow · 2025· Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Hangzhou · 2024· University of Leicester, invited seminar · 2025· University of Birmingham · 2024

Confidence interval construction via adjusted-range self-normalisation

75th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Rotterdam · 2024· CFE-CMStatistics, London · 2021· Tsinghua University, Beijing · 2021

Testing for structural breaks via adjusted-range self-normalisation

North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Montreal · 2021· Australian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne · 2021· ERCIM CMStatistics, London · 2020

Model averaging of integer-valued autoregressive models with covariates

12th Econometric Society World Congress, Milan · 2020· Royal Statistical Society Conference, Belfast · 2019· Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Xiamen · 2019

A score statistic for a stochastic trend in conditional variance

13th Annual SoFiE Conference, San Diego · 2021

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Books & Teaching

Research-led teaching and writing

I teach postgraduate courses in financial econometrics, advanced time series, regression, and quantitative finance, and write textbooks that connect statistical theory with empirical application and reproducible code in R and Python.

Financial Econometrics: Theory, Cases, and R Chinese-language textbook · first author, with Yongmiao Hong & Oliver Linton
Econometrics and Time Series Methods: Theory, Applications, and R Implementation Yongmiao Hong, Oliver Linton & Jiajing Sun · authors listed alphabetically by surname
FinTech Chinese-language textbook · first author, with Yongmiao Hong, Shouyang Wang & Youwei Yang
Regression with R and Python: Description, Prediction, and Causal Inference With Per Johansson  · Springer, forthcoming

Beyond Research

Watercolour, gardens, and everyday observation

In 2025, I painted my first watercolour and quickly fell in love with the medium. I like the beginner's honesty of it: it trains me to look more carefully at colour, light, gardens, and ordinary scenes.

Watercolour of sailing boats on pink water
Watercolour of a savanna at dusk with acacia trees and a giraffe
Watercolour still life of pears and leaves
Watercolour study of river stones in slate and ochre
Watercolour of a small bird on a blossom branch
Watercolour of pink lotus flowers and buds
Watercolour of an adult elephant and calf
Watercolour of two beetles

Watercolour paintings · since 2025

Contact

Get in touch

For research collaboration, academic enquiries, or teaching-related matters, write to jiajing.sun@gmail.com.