Yunting Liu | Sentiment Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Ms. Yunting Liu | Sentiment Analysis | Best Researcher Award

Sun Yat-sen University, China

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🎓 Education Background

Ms. Yunting Liu is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Business at the School of Business, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, under the academic supervision of Prof. Yirong Huang (09/2022–06/2025). She has maintained an outstanding GPA of 90/100, placing her in the top 5% of her cohort. Notable coursework includes “Data Analysis and Visualization by R” (score: 90) and “Natural Language Processing” (score: 95). She previously earned her Bachelor of Science in Business from the same institution (09/2018–06/2022), guided by Prof. Keming Wang, with a GPA of 88/100 and a ranking in the top 15%. During her undergraduate studies, she excelled in quantitative subjects such as Advanced Mathematics (97, ranked 1st/147), Linear Algebra (98, ranked 12th/147), and Probability Theory (92, ranked 11th/147). She also demonstrated strong programming skills in Java and Machine Learning courses.

🔬 Research Experience

Yunting has contributed to cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in both business intelligence and sustainable finance. Since September 2023, she has been leading the development of “A Multimodal Framework of Sentiment Analysis, Volatility Forecasting, and Investment Strategy,” where she implemented sentiment-driven option arbitrage and index timing strategies, significantly enhancing forecasting accuracy and investment returns. Earlier, from September 2021 to July 2022, she conducted an empirical study titled “Corporate Greenwashing Behavior, Green Credit and Financing Capability”, applying text analysis to measure environmental disclosures and assess the effects of green credit policies on corporate behavior.

🏆 Honors and Awards

Yunting Liu’s academic excellence and research contributions have earned her numerous accolades. She has been a recipient of the First Class Scholarship from Sun Yat-Sen University for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024). Her undergraduate thesis was recognized as an Excellent Graduation Thesis in June 2022. Additionally, she received the Second Class Scholarship for three years in a row (2019, 2020, 2021), highlighting her consistent performance and dedication throughout her academic journey.

Notable Publications📝


📝A multimodal deep learning framework for constructing a market sentiment index from stock news

Author(s): Yunting Liu, Yirong Huang

Journal: Big Data Research

Year: 2025


📝BioMolFormer: A Novel Approach to Molecular Generation with SELFIES and Monte Carlo Tree Search

Author(s): Yuntao Zhang, Lei Liu, Yunting Liu, Fengwei Wang, Leqi Shi

Journal: Proceedings of the ACM Conference

Year: 2024