College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Assistant Professor of Accountancy

Ph.D., Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
M.S., Accounting, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004
M.S., Accounting, Tsinghua University, 2002
B.S., Engineering, Tsinghua University, 1999

Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008 to present
Lecturer of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008
Instructor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006

Li, W. Forthcoming. A Theory on the Discontinuity in Earnings Distributions. Contemporary Accounting Research

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011, 2012

Financial Accounting (Introductory and Intermediate)

Financial Reporting and Disclosure, Analyst Forecasts, Performance Measurement, Earnings Management, Incentives