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Liping Ma, Ph.D.

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Clinical Professor of Finance at The University of Texas at Dallas
📍 Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States

Liping Ma is a Clinical Professor of Finance at The University of Texas at Dallas, where she also directs the JSOM Finance Lab. Specializing in quantitative finance, she bridges academia and industry by organizing events like the FinHack competition. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of Arkansas.

Deeply invested in community service, Liping serves as the 2026 President of CIE/USA-DFW, a STEM-focused non-profit. She is passionate about mentorship and empowering the next generation, having developed youth leadership programs and taught public speaking to connect quantitative finance with communication skills.

She has a unique passion for combining the analytical world of quantitative finance with the creative art of public speaking.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Clinical Professor of Finance
Location
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, United States
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Quantitative Finance
Her core expertise as a professor, teaching courses on mathematical methods, analytics, and machine learning models in finance using Python and R.
Fintech Education
She actively bridges academia and industry by organizing financial hackathons, workshops, and competitions to foster the next generation of finance professionals.
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Work history

2013
Clinical Professor of Finance
The University of Texas at Dallas
2008 - 2013
Instructor and Research Assistant at Department of Finance
University of Arkansas
8-2006 - 8-2008
Instructor and Teaching Assistant at Department of Mathematics
University of Arkansas
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Ph.D.
University of Arkansas
Master's degree
University of Arkansas
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