中科大的熊伟是在Duke大学商学院拿的金融学博士，Duke被称作南方的Harvard，当时杜克大学商学院金融系聘请了金融学大牛 ALbert "Peter" Kyle教授，他的论文是金融学博士必读的。Kyle教授被誉为迟早要拿诺贝尔经济学奖的顶尖学者。现在Kyle教授已不在杜克大学商学院，而是到马里兰大学商学院教书了。Kyle教授在普林斯顿大学教书7年，熊伟能去普林斯顿大学经济系教书，估计也是导师帮忙推荐的结果。跟对导师很重要，学术上少走很多弯路，工作也好找。

Albert "Pete" Kyle
  马里兰大学罗伯特. 史密斯商学院金融系查尔斯 E. 史密斯金融学教席教授
Ph.D., University of Chicago

Professor Albert S. (Pete) Kyle has been the Charles E. Smith Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business since 2006. He earned is B.S. degree in mathematics from Davidson College (summa cum laude, 1974), studied philosophy and economics at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar from Texas (1974-1977), and completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago in 1981. He has been a professor at Princeton University (1981-1987), the University of California Berkeley (1987-1992), and Duke University (1992-2006).

Professor Kyle’s research focuses on market microstructure, including topics such as informed speculative trading, market manipulation, price volatility, the information content of market prices, market liquidity, and contagion. His current research also deals with concepts from industrial organization to value companies.

His teaching interests include market microstructure, institutional asset management, venture capital and private equity, corporate finance, option pricing, and asset pricing.

He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society (2002), a board member of the American Finance Association (2004-2006), a staff member of the Presidential Task Force on Market Mechanisms (Brady Commission, 1987), a member of NASDAQ’s economic advisory board (2004-2007), a member of the FINRA economic advisory committee (since 2010), and a member of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (since 2010).

网址：http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/finance/faculty/kyle.aspx