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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Role of alternative investments in optimal asset allocations
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Econometrics
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Deep learning
Mei Lin Hu
Undergraduate in the Dyson School of 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 the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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
Rishi Kumar
Undergraduate Studying Computer Science and Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell College of Engineering
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
Tyler Parente
Undergraduate Studying Applied Economics and Management and Biometry and Statistics
Research Areas:
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Monetary policy
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Macroeconomics
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Fintech
Qihong Ruan
Doctoral Candidate in Economics
Cornell Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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FinTech and financial market microstructure
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Crypto trading
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Inflation expectation
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Systemic risks in financial networks
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Perpetual contracts and crypto market quality
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Stock market liquidity
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Decentralized exchanges
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Stablecoin interest rates
Artem Streltsov
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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AI 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
External Members
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
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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Jingtao Zheng
MBA and Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Chicago Booth and Department of Economics
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
Lavinia Burchielli
Undergraduate Studying Mathematics
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas:
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Quantitative finance
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Trading
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FinTech
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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Valerie Charlotte Hanke
MBA student
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
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
Jongho Kim
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.
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
Kody Law
​Doctoral Candidate in Finance at the 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
Mahitha Penmetsa
Undergraduate Studying Computer Science and Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell College of Engineering
Research Areas:
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Employing technology in the financial sector, especially with trading
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
Yu Wang
Ph.D. Student in Economics
Cornell Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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Macroeconomics
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Corporate finance
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Information economics
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
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