Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Recent Publications
Liu, F., Lyons, A. C., & Fang, E. S. (2025). Risk, gender, and digital finance. Finance Research Letters, 79, Article 107295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.107295
Lyons, A., Kass-Hanna, J., Pingali, D., Soliman, A., Zhu, D., Zhang, Y., & Castano, A. M. (Accepted/In press). A geospatial analysis of food insecurity among refugee households in Lebanon using machine learning techniques. Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-025-01597-7
Lyons, A. C., Montoya Castano, A., Kass-Hanna, J., Zhang, Y., & Soliman, A. (2025). A machine learning approach to assessing multidimensional poverty and targeting assistance among forcibly displaced populations. World Development, 192, Article 107013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107013
Liu, F., & Lyons, A. C. (2024). Use Cases in Fintech. In H. K. Baker, G. Filbeck, & K. Black (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Fintech: Reshaping Finance (pp. 43-64). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-608-520241005
Lyons, A. C., Kass-Hanna, J., & Montoya Castano, A. (2023). A multidimensional approach to measuring vulnerability to poverty among refugee populations. Journal of International Development, 35(7), 2014-2045. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3757