LIN WILLIAM CONG
DIGITAL ECONOMY AND
FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY
RESEARCH LAB
Principal Investigators
Lin William Cong
DEFT Lab PI; Director, GIFTS@NTU
NTU President's Chair Professor (Finance, Data Science & AI)
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 Social Sciences
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Applied Theory
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Chinese Economy
NTU & Cornell Members
Zhimin Chen
Assistant Professor of Finance, NBS
Faculty Affiliate, GIFTS@NTU
Nanyang Technological University
Milind Goel
Incoming Assistant Professor of Finance
Doctoral Candidate in Finance, LBS
NBS, Nanyang Technological University
Xin Wang
Assistant Professor of Finance, NBS
Faculty Affiliate, GIFTS@NTU
Nanyang Technological University
Research Areas:
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FinTech
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Digital Economy
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Financial Intermediation
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Market Microstructure
Chunyu Qi
Postdoctoral Fellow, GIFTS@NTU
Ph.D. in Economics, CUHK Shenzhen
Research Areas:
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Asset Pricing
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Machine Learning in Finance
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Financial Econometrics
Xiaoyu Chen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Nanyang Business School
Ph.D. in Applied Economics
Tsinghua PBCSF
Research Areas:
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FinTech
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Banking & Finance
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Information Economics
Yujie Cai
Visiting Ph.D. Student
NBS Finance & GIFTS@NTU
Doctoral Candidate in Finance, PKU
Research Areas:
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AI in Finance
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Financial Regulations
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International Finance
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Asset Pricing
Fred Sun
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Arthawa Pande
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
Jodan Velte
Undergraduate Class of 2027
Applied Economics and Management
Research Areas:
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Math & Statistics
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AI in Finance
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Financial Technology
External Members
Pietro Bini
Assistant Professor of Finance
Boston University Questrom School of Business
Research Areas:
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Behavior and risks of generative AI and machine learning models
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Portfolio choice of institutional investors
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Insurance
Zhiheng He
Assistant Professor of Finance
Renmin University of China
Leticia Lee
Program Coordinator (Part-TIme)
Research Areas:
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Public relations
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Marketing
Anqi Li
Controllers Strats Analyst,
Goldman Sachs
Undergrad Class of 2025
Mathematics, Cornell University
Research Areas:
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Banking & Finance
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FinTech
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AI for Finance and Business
Siguang Li
Assistant Professor in FinTech Thrust
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zhanye Luo
PhD Student in Innovation & Information Management (IIM)
The University of Hong Kong
Yuanyu Qu
Associate Professor of Finance, University of International Business and Economics
Research Areas:
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Capital Markets
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Institutional Investors
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AI in Finance and Blockchain economics
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Sustainability & Climate Finance
Daniel Rabetti
Visiting Professor of Accounting
Harvard Business School
Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting, National University of Singapore
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
Artem Streltsov
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Buffalo School of Management
Research Areas:
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AI in Finance
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Crpytocurrencies & DeFi
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Market Microstructure
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Corporate Finance
Aviv Yaish
Postdoctoral Associate
Yale University
Research Areas:
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Economics and Computation
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Blockchains and Decentralized Finance
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Security and Economics of Distributed Systems and AI
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
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
Assistant Professor in Finance
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
Research Areas:
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Empirical asset pricing
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Digital economy
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FinTech
Wu Zhu
Assistant Professor of Finance,
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.
Affiliates
Katherine (Ruihua) Chu
Ph.D. Student in Finance
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University
Kwan Chen
Doctoral Candidate in Applied Economics
Renmin University of China
Research Areas:
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FinTech
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Asset Pricing
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Space Economics
Gavin Feng
Assistant Professor of Business Statistics, City University of Hong Kong
Research Areas:
Jingyu He
Assistant Professor of Business Statistics
City University of Hong Kong
Research Areas
Sanya Kohli
Undergraduate Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell College of Engineering
Research Areas:
Logan Kraver
Undergraduate Studying Computer Science and Mathematics
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences
Research Areas:
Jiasun Li
Associate Professor of Finance
George Mason University
Research Areas:
Lauren Sutioso
Undergraduate in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Research Areas:
Matthew Wong
Undergraduate Studying Information Science, Systems, and Technology and Business
Cornell College of Engineering
Research
Bobby Yu
Ph.D. Student in Real Estate
Nolan School of Hotel Administration
Research Areas:
Yushan Zhou
Ph.D. Student in Quant Marketing
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Jason Zou
Ph.D. Student in Finance
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Research Areas:
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Demand System in Asset Pricing
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Market Microstructure
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Information Economics in Corporate Finance
Alumni
Jihye Jang
Assistant Professor of Finance
Texas Christian University
Lab Member (2022-2026)
Class of 2026
Ph.D. in Economics
Dyson Applied Economics
Research Areas:
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Corporate Finance
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Financial Intermediation
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Contract Theory
Ryan Cheng
Undergraduate Student in
Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia
Lab Affiliate (2023-2026)
Research Areas:
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Robotics
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AI
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Applied Economics
Stephen Yang
Software Engineer, Mechanize Inc.
Lab Member (2023-2026)
Undergrad Class of 2029 (on leave) Mathematics, Stanford University
Research Areas:
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AI and LLMs
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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Microeconomic Theory
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Political Economy
Yu Wang
Principle Associate, Quantitative Analyst, Capital One
Lab Affiliate
Class of 2025
Ph.D. in Economics
Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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Macroeconomics
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Digital Assets and DeFi
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Finance
Jiawen Yan
Assistant Professor of Accounting
National University of Singapore
Lab Affiliate
Class of 2025
Ph.D. in Accounting
Johnson Graduate School of Management
Rishi Kumar
TBA
Lab Member
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
Mei Lin Hu
Private Credit Analyst, Barclays
Lab Member
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
Jongho Kim
TBA
Lab Affiliate
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
Lab Affiliate
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
Yining Duan
Cybereason, La Jolla
Lab Affiliate
Class of 2024
Master of Finance, MIT
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
Project Finance Analyst
Greenskies Clean Focus
Lab Member
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