Assistant Professor Minqiang Li received his PhD in Finance in 2005 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has master degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Finance.

Dr. Li has been named to the List of Teachers Rated as Excellent in UIUC.

Dr. Li's research areas include asset pricing, financial modeling, and term structures of interest rates. His research works have been accepted by Journal of Financial Economics, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Derivatives, Quantitative Finance, and Journal of Futures Markets.