LIN WILLIAM CONG
DIGITAL ECONOMY AND
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY
Research Lab
Principal Investigator
Lin William Cong
Rudd Family Professor of Management
Associate Professor of Finance
Founding Faculty Director of
FinTech at Cornell Initiative
Research Areas:
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Financial Economics
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Information Economics
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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FinTech & Digital Economics
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AI for Finance and Business
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Big Data Analytics
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Chinese Economy
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Members
Pietro Bini
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Portfolio choices of institutional investors
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Asset Pricing
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AI and FinTech
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Financial Regulation
Mei Lin Hu
Undergrad Class of 2025
Applied Economics and Management
Research Areas:
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Blockchain in healthcare
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Crypto regulations
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Network analysis and big data
Jihye Jang
Doctoral Candidate in Applied Economics
Dyson School of Applied Economics
Research Areas:
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Intersection of big data and corporate finance
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Natural language processing
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Firm-level uncertainty
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Firm capital structure and financial policy
Qihong Ruan
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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Market microstructure
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Cryptocurrencies and DeFi
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FinTech and LLMs
Artem Streltsov
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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AI and ML in Finance
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Corporate Finance
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Market Microstructure
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Cryptocurrencies
Fred Sun
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Market Microstructure
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Big Data
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FinTech
Yu Wang
Doctoral Candidate in Economics
Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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Macroeconomics
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Corporate finance
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FinTech
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Information economics
External Members
Zhiheng He
Doctoral Candidate in Economics
Tsinghua University
Research Areas:
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Financial technology and innovation
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Blockchain-based ecosystems
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Digital assets
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Impact of on-chain activities on the economic ecosystem.
Siguang Li
Assistant Professor in FinTech Thrust
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Daniel Rabetti
Ph.D. in Finance
Tel Aviv University
Research Areas:
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Intersection of financial innovation and disclosure
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Economics of blockchain
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Industrial organization
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Lending markets
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Disclosure
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Luofeng Zhou
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
NYU Stern School of Business
Research Areas:
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FinTech
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Financial intermediation
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Real estate
Weiyi Zhao
Ph.D. Student in Economics
Tsinghua University
Research Areas:
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Empirical asset pricing
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Digital economy
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FinTech
Affiliates
Ryan Cheng
Undergraduate Student in
Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia
​Research Areas:
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Embedded Machine Learning
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National Language Processing
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Foundation Models
Yining Duan
Master of Finance Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Areas:
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Financial engineering
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Portfolio management
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Asset pricing
Gavin Feng
Assistant Professor of Business Statistics, City University of Hong Kong
Research Areas:
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Bayesian Statistics
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Empirical Asset Pricing
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Financial Technology
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Machine Learning in Finance
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Jingyu He
Assistant Professor of Business Statistics
City University of Hong Kong
Research Areas:
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Machine Learning in Finance
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Bayesian Statistics
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FinTech
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Empirical Asset Pricing
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Sanya Kohli
Undergraduate Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell College of Engineering
Research Areas:
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Financial Technology
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Machine Learning
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Data-driven Analytics
Logan Kraver
Undergraduate Studying Computer Science and Mathematics
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas:
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Financial Markets
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Machine Learning
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Asset Pricing
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NLP
Jiasun Li
Associate Professor of Finance
George Mason University
Atharwa Pandey
Master Student in Operations Research Engineering, ORIE
Cornell College of Engineering
Research Areas:
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AI in Finance
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Quantitative Finance
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Machine Learning
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Asset Pricing
Lauren Sutioso
Undergraduate in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Research Areas:
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Blockchain
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Cryptocurrency
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Fintech and Social Impact
Matthew Wong
Undergraduate Studying Information Science, Systems, and Technology and Business
Cornell College of Engineering
Research Areas:
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Applying engineering principles to better understand how machine learning can impact financial markets
Jiawen Yan
Ph.D. Student in Accounting
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Learning in Firms and Markets
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Unstructured Information
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Big Data Analytics
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Bobby Yu
Ph.D. Student in Real Estate
Nolan School of Hotel Administration
Research Areas:
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Real estate, with special attention to financial products such as PERE and MBS
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Applying machine learning techniques to real estate research
Luyao Zhang
Assistant Professor of Economics, Senior Research Scientist at Data Science Research Center,
Duke Kunshan University
Founding President, SciEcon CIC
Research Areas:
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Computational Economics and Social Science
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Human-Computer Interaction
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Cooperative AI and Blockchain Economics
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Bounded Rationality and Mechanism Design
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Behavioral and Experimental Economics
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Interdisciplinary Big Data
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Yushan Zhou
Ph.D. Student in Quant Marketing
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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User-Generated Content
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Digital Economy
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NLP and Machine Learning
Wu Zhu
Assistant Professor of Finance, Research Area:
School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
Research Areas:
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AI and Finance,
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Big Data,
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Network Economics,
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Portofolio Management,
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Macroeconomics, and Chinese Economy.
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Alumni
Rishi Kumar
TBA
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Lab Member
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Class of 2025
Undergraduate
Research Areas:
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Quantitative trading and portfolio management strategies
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Utilization of ML and NLP to obtain insights about companies and financial data
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Applications of blockchain technology
Jongho Kim
TBA
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Lab Affiliate
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Ph.D. student in Quantitative Marketing
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Application of machine learning in empirical management research
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Developing statistical methodol-ogies and applying them to high-dimensional data.
Kody Law
Assistant Professor of Finance
CUHK Business School
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Lab Affiliate
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Class of 2024
Ph.D. in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Fintech
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Financial Intermediation
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Private Equity
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Household Finance
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Machine Learning
Tyler Parente
Project Finance Analyst
Greenskies Clean Focus
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Lab Member
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Class of 2024
Undergraduate in Applied Economics and Management, Biometry, and Statistics
Research Areas:
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Monetary policy
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Macroeconomics
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Fintech
Jingtao Zheng
Quantitative Researcher
Citadel Securities
Lab Affiliate
Class of 2024
MBA and Ph.D. in Finance
Chicago Booth and Department of Economics
Valerie Charlotte Hanke
Commercial Data Strategy， AMEX
Lab Affiliate
Class of 2023
MBA
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Data privacy in financial services
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Open banking data regulation
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Alternative data
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Financial technology and innovation