Xuguang Simon Sheng is a Professor of Economics at American University. He currently serves as the chair of the Department of Economics and the editor of International Review of Economics & Finance. His research interests include time series econometrics, machine learning, monetary policy, fiscal policy, energy policy, forecasting, measuring uncertainty and survey expectations.
He has published in Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of International Monetary and Finance, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Energy Economics and the Oxford Handbook on Economic Forecasting.
He has received the IIF-SAS Award from International Institute of Forecasters and SAS® in 2023, Isaac Kerstenetzky Award from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) of Brazil in 2021 and Heinz König Young Scholar Award from Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) of Germany in 2010. He has served as an associate editor for International Journal of Forecasting and Oxford Open Economics, a guest editor for Energy Economics (2023, titled “Inflation Dynamics in a New Era of Energy Price Shocks”), International Journal of Forecasting (2022, titled “Economic Forecasting in Times of Covid-19,” and 2019, titled “Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies”), and Journal of International Money and Finance (2025, titled “Uncertainty and Economic Activity”), and a co-organizer of ten international conferences.