Keynote Speaker
Prof Piyush "Pi" Sharma has more than thirty five years’ professional experience across both industry and academia. He joined the School of Marketing at Curtin University in January 2014 and since then, he has served as a member of the Academic Board of Curtin University, Strategic Review Board of the Faculty of Business and Law, and Curtin India Mission. He is a co-founder of Customer Experience Research Group, Innovation Research Hub (IRH) and Navigating Inter-cultural Experiences (NICE) platform at Curtin University. He has also served as Associate Editor (Marketing and International Business) for Journal of Business Research since 2015 and member of Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts during 2022-24.
Professor Sharma is ranked among the top 2% researchers in the world across all fields of research and ranked among the top 100 business researchers in the global P-rankings based on publications in ABDC journals since 2014. He was also recognised as the only Rising Star from marketing area among Australia’s Top 40 researchers across all disciplines in 2019 and ranked among Top 70 business scholars in Australia by Research.com in 2022, based on his high D-index (Discipline H-index). He is also the most popular author from the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University with 300,000+ downloads and views of his publications.
His past research covered services and international marketing, cross-cultural consumer behavior, self-regulation and regulatory failure, branding and marketing strategy, business and consumer ethics, corporate governance, ESG and sustainability, marketing-finance interface, organizational behavior and management, among others. His current research uses a multi-disciplinary perspective to study the role of emerging technologies and business innovation in addressing the challenges and opportunities faced by people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) backgrounds, particularly in community welfare and healthcare sectors.
Philip Yu is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology and serves as the Associate Director of the University Research Facility of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at The Education University of Hong Kong. His research interests include preference learning, data mining in STEM education, time series analysis, multimodal AI and its applications in education and healthcare. He has authored over 170 publications and two well-received research monographs on ranking methodology, and has been awarded gold medals in several international invention competitions.
Speech Title: Modeling Regime Shifts with Multiple-Buffer Autoregression
Abstract: The talk introduces a new multiple-regime buffered autoregressive (mBAR) model for effectively capturing regime shifts through multiple buffer zones. We develop the least squares estimator for the mBAR model, and, based on recursively arranged autoregression, propose a fast threshold-search method. Compared with the traditional grid-search approach, the proposed method offers substantially greater computational efficiency, particularly for large samples. This recursive search strategy may be of interest for estimating multiple threshold parameters. Finally, an empirical analysis of seven exchange rates demonstrates the usefulness of the mBAR model from both statistical and economic perspectives.
Dr Bo Qin is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Melbourne. He previously held appointments at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Groningen, where he earned his PhD in 2010. He also holds an MSc in Accounting from Tilburg University.
His research focuses on corporate governance, including board structures, executive compensation, minority shareholder activism, ESG contracting, and the role of social media in corporate accountability. Much of his current research examines these issues in China.
His work has appeared in leading journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, European Accounting Review, Management Accounting Research, The British Accounting Review, and Journal of Corporate Finance. His research on "say on pay" was cited in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's final rules on Pay Versus Performance. His studies have also received coverage from Forbes, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, IR Magazine, and ANZ Bluenotes.
Dr Qin serves as an Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review and an Associate Editor of Accounting and Business Research. He also reviews for a range of major accounting and management journals, including Management Science, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Speech Title: Digital Voices and Algorithmic Pressure: How Online Platforms Reshape Corporate Governance