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
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

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

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

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.

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

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
DEFT Visiting Fellows

Daniel Rabetti
Fall 2022
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Tel Aviv University
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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

Jacopo Ponticelli
Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management