Hello မင်္ဂလာပါ, I am ရဲအောင်မိုး (read as Ye Aung Moe). The name was written in Burmese, the language of Burma. Yes, in case you are wondering, I hail from this perhaps little-known SouthEast Asian country called Burma/Myanmar.

I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Finance at the College of Business, University of Nebraska - Lincoln. In my pre-PhD years, I gained diverse experience across multiple fields while working in Singapore and Myanmar. My jobs included a junior coder (in VB.Net), a digital marketing analyst, a market research analyst, a GCE-O and GCE-A levels mathematics tutor, and a research assisant to a cryptocurrency research group.

My current research interest spans across corporate governance in relation to political ideology and connection, the trading activities of politicians in financial securities market, and market microstructure.

When I am not engaged in finance research or teaching, I like to spend most of my free time reading epic fantasy series, a hobby I picked up in my teenage years. My favorite fantasy authors are J. R. R. Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, and Robin Hobb. Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series left in me an enduring love for fantasy literature.