Zhilong Xie
Associate Professor · Master Supervisor
Zhilong Xie is an Associate Professor at the School of Management Science and Engineering, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), China. He holds a Ph.D. and was a visiting scholar at the University of Sheffield, UK. Professor Xie specializes in FinTech and Artificial Intelligence, having led or participated in over 10 high-level national and provincial research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published over 10 high-quality papers in prestigious international journals and is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary talent through cutting-edge research in Big Data analytics and Machine Learning.
FinTechArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningQuant TradingDigital Transformation
Key Academic Impact
National Recognition
Principal Investigator of National First-Class Undergraduate Course
Provincial Achievement
Provincial First-Class Course / Editor-in-Chief of Provincial Planning Textbook
Honors & Awards
2025
Grand Prize, The 1st Sichuan Province Teacher AI Application Ability Competition
2025
Sichuan Provincial Top Case for "AI + Higher Education" Typical Application Scenarios
2025
Outstanding Case for "Digital Educational Resource Construction in Universities"
2024
First Prize, The 19th "Citi Cup" Financial Innovation Application Competition
2023
Outstanding Teacher of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
2022
Outstanding Teacher of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
2022
Outstanding Communist Party Member of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Teaching Excellence
01
Lead of National First-Class Undergraduate Course: Leading the construction of top-tier national courses representing the highest standards of undergraduate teaching in China.
02
Provincial First-Class Course: Selected for two Sichuan Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Course construction projects.
03
Provincial Planning Textbook: Editor-in-Chief of Basic Applications of Python, selected for the Sichuan Provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" Textbook series.
04
Courses Taught: Undergraduate (Introduction to AI, Python), Master (Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis), Ph.D. (Financial Intelligence).
Research Grants & Projects
01
Large Language Model Research for Vertical Educational Domains based on Multi-source Teaching Videos and Knowledge Graphs, Sichuan Provincial Education Department, 2025
02
ESG News and Stock Market Performance: A Big Data Perspective on Sustainable Development, Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department, 2024
03
Applied Research on the Impact of Multi-source Heterogeneous Factors on Stock Market Volatility, Central University Fundamental Research Project, 2022
04
Data Service Driven Model for Rural E-commerce based on Polymorphic Graph Reconstruction, Ministry of Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), 2020
05
Intelligent Risk Analysis for Stock Markets based on Media Perception (Provincial Level), Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department, 2019
06
Multimodal RegTech Research from a Blockchain Perspective, Central University Fundamental Research Project, 2019
07
Stock Market Risk Prediction based on Improved LSTM with Multi-type Data Sources, Central University Fundamental Research Project, 2018
08
Adaptive Joint Classification and Regression Relevance Vector Machine based on Natural Computing, Central University Fundamental Research Project, 2013
09
Financial Risk Early Warning Model based on Gene Expression Programming and Particle Swarm Optimization, Ministry of Education (Humanities and Social Sciences), 2011
Selected Publications
01
BoA-SQL: Executable Blueprint-of-Action for Text-to-SQL with Reinforcement Learning, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
02
Lead–LagNet: Exploiting Lead–Lag Dependencies for Cross-Series Temporal Prediction, CIKM'25, 2025.
03
Unraveling Asset Pricing with AI: A Systematic Literature Review, Applied Soft Computing, 2025.
04
ESIE-BERT: Enriching Sub-words Information Explicitly with BERT for Intent Classification, Neurocomputing, 2024.
05
DKPE: Deep KeyPhrase Expansion, Neurocomputing, 2024.
06
Joint Optimization of Computing and Transmission for Cloud-Edge-Terminal Power Systems, Journal of Computer Research and Development, 2023.
07
Basic Applications of Python (Sichuan Provincial "14th Five-Year" Planning Textbook), China Machine Press, 2021.
08
Quantifying the Effect of Real Estate News on Chinese Stock Movements, EMFT, 2019.
09
An Intelligent Learning and Ensembling Framework for Predicting Option Prices, EMFT, 2019.
10
Effect of Digitalized Rumor Clarification on Stock Markets, EMFT, 2019.
11
Research on the Impact of Social Media on Stock Markets from a Big Data Perspective (Monograph), SWUFE Press, 2019.
12
Interactive object extraction by merging regions with k-global maximal similarity, Neurocomputing, 2013.
13
The development of computer science research in China: a bibliometric study, 2012.
Education Background
PhD
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
(2012-2018)
(2012-2018)
Visiting Scholar
University of Sheffield
(2011-2012)
(2011-2012)
Master
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
(2004-2006)
(2004-2006)
Bachelor
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
(1996-2000)
(1996-2000)