LIN WILLIAM CONG
Cornell Faculty Affiliates
Across the college and its networks, our community is active and engaged in fintech research, outreach, curriculum, events, clubs, and more.
Will Cong
Faculty Director, FinTech Initiative; Rudd Family Professor of Management and Associate Professor of Finance, Johnson
Research Areas:
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Financial Technology & Innovation
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Blockchains
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Mechanism & Information Design
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Entrepreneurship, AI & Big Data Analytics
Peter Balnaves
Former Director, NYC Fintech Intensive; Lecturer of Management, Johnson
Elena Belavina
Associate Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management, Nolan
Research Areas:
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Sustainability
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Global Supply Chains
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Business Experiments
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Supply Chain Management
Khaled Boughanmi
Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management Communication, Johnson
Research Areas:
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Data-driven decision making
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Bayesian nonparametrics and machine learning
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E-commerce
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Online marketing and performance systems
Murillo Campello
Lewis H. Durland Professor of Finance, Johnson
Research Associate, NBER
Research Areas:
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Financial Economics
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Corporate Finance
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Financial Intermediation
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Market imperfections
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AI for Finance
Lourdes Casanova
Senior Lecturer and the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute
Research Areas:
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Emerging markets
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Emerging market multinationals
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Corporate Social Responsibility in emerging multinationals
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Women in business in Latin America
Li Chen
Breazzano Family Term Professor of Management, Johnson
Ya-Ru Chen
Academic Dean of China Initiatives, Johnson
Research Areas:
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Cross-cultural differences and similarities in employees' behaviors and attitudes
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Power, status, and leadership effectiveness
Matthew D’Amore
Associate Dean and Professor of Practice, Cornell Tech
Now at Cornell Tech, D’Amore brings his legal industry experience to the Cornell Tech community, teaching Technology Transactions and Trade Secret Law and Practice.
Vishal Gaur
Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management, Johnson
Research Areas:
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Data-driven modeling
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Econometric analysis
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Optimization of operations management problems
Karan Girotra
Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management Chair, Cornell Tech
James Grimmelman
Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law, Cornell Tech and Cornell Law
Research Areas:
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How laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power
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Understanding between lawyers and technologists
Ryan Guggenmos
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Johnson
Research Areas:
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How biases in human behavior affect decision processes in accounting contexts
Robert Jarrow
Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Investment Management, Johnson
Justin Johnson
Deane W. Malott Professor of Management, Johnson
Ari Juels
Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Professor, Cornell Tech
Vrinda Kadiyali
Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Field of Management, Johnson
Andrew Karolyi
Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Johnson
Margaret (Peggy) Kingsley
Instructor, NYC FinTech Intensive; Corporate Finance Senior Vice president, M&T Bank
Research Areas:
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Strategy
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Valuation
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Banking
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Financial and competitive analysis
Sarah Kreps
Director, Cornell Tech Policy Lab; John L. Wetherill Professor of Government; Adjunct Professor of Law, Cornell
Marcos Lopez de Prado
Professor of Practice, Cornell College of Engineering; Global Head of Quantitative Research, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Research Areas:
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Machine learning and supercomputing
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Developing statistical tests that identify false investment strategies
Peng Liu
Director of Real Estate and Singapore Tourism Board; Distinguished Professor in Asian Hospitality, Nolan
Yao Lu
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Johnson
Shawn Mankad
Clifford H. Whitcomb Faculty Fellow; Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management, Johnson
Research Areas:
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intersection between data analytics and economic decision making using machine learning techniques
Pamela Moulton
Associate Professor of Finance, Nolan
Maureen O’Hara
Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Johnson
Young-Hoon Park
Sung-Whan Suh Professor of Management, Johnson
Drew Pascarella
Rempe Wilson Distinguished Lecturer of Finance; Associate Dean of MBA Programs; Founder of the Fintech Intensive, Johnson
As associate dean for MBA programs, Drew is responsible for curriculum, admissions, placement, student services, leadership programs, and diversity and inclusive initiatives for Johnson’s residential MBA programs.
Rafael Pass
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
Research Areas:
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Cryptography and its interplay with Computational Complexity and Game Theory
Eswar Prasad
Nandlal P. Tolani Senior Professor of International Trade Policy, Dyson
Omid Rafieian
Demir Sabanci Faculty Fellow of Marketing and Management; Assistant Professor of Marketing and Management Communication, Johnson
Kristina Rennekamp
Associate Professor of Accounting, Johnson
Research Areas:
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The role of accounting in the judgments and decisions of managers, investors and analysts.
Gideon Saar
Dr. Philip and Rosalyn Professor of Management and Professor of Finance, Johnson
Research Areas:
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High-frequency trading, using individual investor trading to predict returns
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Charles Whitehead
Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law, Cornell Law
Research Areas:
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Corporate Law and Financial Regulation
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Securities Law
Nathan Yang
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Dyson
Research Areas:
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Behavioral analysis
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Customer relationship management
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Dynamic structural models
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Empirical industrial organization
Mao Ye
Associate Professor of Finance, Johnson
External Research Fellows
Extensive network of world leading scholars researching at the frontier of FinTech, Digital Economy, and Business Data Science.
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, MIT
Bruno Biais
Professor, HEC Paris
Markus Brunnermeier
Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton
Research Areas:
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International financial markets
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Bubbles
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Liquidity
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Financial and monetary price
Agostino Capponi
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Darrell Duffie
Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Itay Fainmesser
Associate Professor, Carey Business School and Economics Department, The Johns Hopkins University
Joshua Gans
Professor of Strategic Management, the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Rotman School of Management; Chief Economist, Creative Destruction Lab
University of Toronto
Itay Goldstein
Joel S. Ehrenkranz Family Professor, Professor of Finance, Professor of Economics, Wharton School of Business
Research Areas:
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Corporate Finance
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Feedback effects between financial markets and real economy
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Financial fragility and crises
Hanna Halaburda
Associate Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics, NYU Stern
Research Areas:
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How technology changes economic forces and affects business models and interactions in the marketplace
Zhiguo He
Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance, Jeuck Faculty Fellow, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Yael Hochberg
Head, Rice University Entrepreneurship Initiative and Ralph S. O'Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Wei Jiang
Arthur E. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise, Columbia Business School
Research Areas:
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Corporate governance
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Institutional investors
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Technology and financial markets
Bryan Kelly
Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
Josh Lerner
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Kai Li
Professor and W.M. Young Chair in Finance, UBC Sauder School of Business
Research Areas:
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Corporate governance
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Mergers acquisition
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Culture and finance
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Corporate innvoation
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Machine learning
Laura Liu
Professor of Finance, Peking University
Evgeny Lyandres
Professor, Tel Aviv University
Research Areas:
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Theoretical Corporate Finance
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Empirical Corporate Finance
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Industrial Organization
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Capital Market Anomalies and Regularities
Christine Parlour
Professor and Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting, Berkeley Haas
Manju Puri
J.B. Fuqua Professor of Finance
Duke University
Senior Advisor at FDIC
Vice-President, Western Finance Associat
Research Areas:
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Financial Intermediation
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Empirical Corporate Finance
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Entrenpreuership
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Household Finance
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FinTech and Digital Footprints
Uday Rajan
David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administration, Professor of finance and Chair, Finance Area, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Research Areas:
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Informational frictions such as adverse selection and moral hazard and their effect on market transactions
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Credit ratings in the financial markets
Alberto Rossi
Provost Distinguished Associate Professor of Finance, Associate Director, Center for Financial Markets and Policy, Georgetown University
Antoinette Schoar
Stewart C. Myers-Horn Family Professor of Finance, Sloan School of Business, MIT
Research Areas:
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Entrepreneurial Finance
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FinTech
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Consumer Finance
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Financial Intermediation
Suraj Srinivasan
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration (Accounting and Management), Harvard Business School.
Rob Townsend
Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, MIT
Gerry Tsoukalas
Associate Professor, Boston University; Senior Fellow, The Wharton School; Fellow, The Luohan Academy
Aleh Tsyvinski
Arthur M. Okin Professor of Economics, Yale University
Toni Whited
Dale L. Dykema Professor of Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Research Areas:
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Effects of financial frictions on corporate investment
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Econometric solutions for measurement error
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Corporate cash policy
Dacheng Xiu
Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Chicago Booth
Research Areas:
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Developing statistical methodologies and applying them to financial data
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Risk measurement and portfolio management
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Empirical asset
Baozhong Yang
Talmage Dobbs Jr. Chair in Finance, Associate Professor of Finance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Liyan Yang
Professor of Finance, Foundation Chair in Investment Strategy, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto
David Yermack
Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation, NYU Stern
Xiaoyan Zhang
Associate Dean, Xinyuan Professor of Finance, Deputy Director of Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research, Deputy Director of Tsinghua Fintech Research Institute, Director of Xinyuan Fintech Research Center, Tsinghua PBCSF
Research Areas:
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International finance
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Empirical asset pricing
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FinTech and Chinese capital market
Junior Research Fellows
Group of promising pre-tenure researchers leading and contributing to Digital Economics and FinTech research.
Tania Babina
Assistant Professor of Finance
Columbia Business School
Greg Buchak
Assistant Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Maryam Farboodi
Jon D. Gruber Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan
Research Areas:
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Financial Intermediation
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Economics of Big Data
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Financial Economics
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Network Economics
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
Xiang Hui
Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis
Shota Ichihashi
Assistant Professor, Queen's University Department of Economics
Research Areas:
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Microeconomic Theory
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Industrial Organization
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Data Economy and Intermediation
Bo Li
Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Simon Mayer
Assistant Professor in Finance
HEC Paris
Research Areas:
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Financial Technology and Innovation
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Banking and payments
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Blockchain and Decentralized Finance
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The Economics of Big Data and AI
Markus Pelger
Assistant Professor of Management, Reid and Polly Anderson Faculty Fellow, Stanford University
Research Areas:
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High-Dimensional Financial Data
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Stochastic Financial Modeling
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High-Frequency Statistics
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Machine Learning
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Risk Management
Industry Scholars
Practitioner thought leaders from economics, management, legal, and technology fields researching on FinTech.
Gordon Liao
Chief Economist, Circle Internet Financial, LLC
Lee Schneider
General Counsel of Ava Labs,
Co-founder of Owl Explains
Research Areas:
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FinTech Compliance & Regulation
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Digital Asset Taxonomy
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Financial Services & Technology Law
Student Research Fellows
Outstanding students at Cornell pursuing the studies and research innovation in FinTech and Digital Economics.
Tyler Parente
Undergrad Class of 2024
Applied Economics and Management, Biometry and Statistics
Tyler is a Junior from Connecticut majoring in Applied Economics and Management and Biometry and Statistics. Along with assisting with research at Cornell, he is also a
member of the Big Red Yoga Club. In his free time he enjoys working out, reading, and watching sports.
Mei Lin Hu
Undergrad Class of 2025
Applied Economics and Management
Mei Lin is a sophomore in Dyson studying business with a minor in Computer Science. She is interested in the intersection of finance and technology and has worked on research
regarding the regulatory implications of cryptocurrencies. At FinTech@Cornell, she is currently assisting faculty members on using NLP techniques to link company documents with their
marketing strategies.
Jongho Kim
Ph.D Student in Management
Quantitative Marketing
Jongho is a PhD student in Quantitative Marketing at Johnson, Cornell University. His current research examines the application of machine learning in empirical management research, while
exploring its underlying mechanisms. Prior to joining the doctoral program, he practiced in Seoul for several years with a robo advisory startup where he was involved in projects developing statistical
methodologies and applying them to high dimensional data.
Qihong Ruan
Ph.D Student in Economics
Qihong's research interests include market microstructure, financial technologies, and their effects on macroeconomics. He has worked on various research projects involving decentralized exchanges, perpetual contracts, cryptocurrencies' market liquidity, and the intersection of cryptocurrencies and labor markets.
Qihong earned a master's degree in econometrics from Xiamen University and a bachelor's degree in finance from Sun Yat-sen University.
Artem Streltsov
Ph.D Student in Finance
Before coming to Cornell, Artem studied economics and mathematics at Duke University. His research focuses on FinTech and applications of machine
learning in finance and economics. Artem is a graduate student fellow at FinTech@Cornell.
Elisha Yu
Ph.D Student in Accounting
Elisha Yu is interested in the generation, retrieval and processing of accounting
information and how capital market participants leverage the information for decision making. Before joining the Johnson Ph.D. program in 2019, Elisha worked as an auditor for Deloitte in Toronto, Canada. Elisha received her BComm with accounting specialization from the University of Toronto and MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.
Pratham Rawat
Undergraduate Class of 2024
Information Science, Mathematics
Pratham is a Junior at Cornell University. He is incredibly interested in how technology can be used to improve
and innovate the financial space, having interned at a cryptocurrency startup, Fidelity Investments, and most recently,
Bloomberg LP as a software engineer. This summer, he will be interning at DRW, a trading firm based in Chicago. He
is also a co-lead of the Algorithmic Trading subteam in Cornell Data Science. He hopes to leverage his past
experiences in the space to continue building products and ideas in the future. In his free time, he enjoys driving
around the Northeast and visiting different cities.
Ethan Goldman
Undergraduate Class of 2024
Computer Science, Linguistics
Ethan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying computer science and linguistics. He is passionate about interdisciplinary applications of technology, especially how technology
affects finance and entrepreneurship. Through FinTech@Cornell and the Laidlaw Scholars Program, he is currently assisting faculty members on research projects related to crowdfunding and entrepreneurship in Latin America.
Bobby Yu
Ph.D. Student in Real Estate
Bobby Yu is a fourth-year graduate student at the Nolan School of Hospitality Management under the S.C Johnson College of Business. Before enrolling in the program, he earned an MS in Applied Economics from the Dyson School and BAs in Economics and Music from Colgate University. Yu’s research focuses on real estate, with special attention to financial products such as PERE and MBS. He is also interested in applying machine learning techniques to real estate research. Besides exploring his career path in academia, Yu is also an ardent student musician with experiences in composition, chamber music, and choral ensemble.
Jihye Jang
Ph.D. Student in Dyson
Jihye is a Ph.D. student in Applied Economics and Management at Dyson. Her research lies on the intersection of big data and corporate finance. Her current work focuses on using natural language processing to extract a measure of firm-level uncertainty from unstructured data and link it to firm capital structure and financial policy. She is originally from the Republic of Korea and prior to joining Cornell, has received a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago and bachelor's degrees in law and economics from Peking University.
Matthew Wong
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Information Science, Systems, and Technology and Business
Matthew is a sophomore in the College of Engineering studying Information Science, Systems, and Technology with concentrations in Data Science and Behavioral Science. He is also pursuing a Dyson Business Minor for Engineers with a concentration in Entrepreneurship. He is passionate about applying his technical and engineering background to better understand how machine learning can impact financial markets. Outside of FinTech@Cornell, Matthew is the Product Manager for Eatery, a student-run app from Cornell AppDev, and a Financial Software Engineer for the Cornell FinTech Club.
Logan Kraver
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Computer Science and Mathematics
Logan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Computer Science and Mathematics. He is interested in the intersection of technology and finance especially in regards to financial markets. Outside of research, he is also a member of Cornell Hedge Fund, engineering lead of Cornell FinTech Club, and director of new member education at Cornell Business Analytics.