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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Karan Girotra
Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management Chair, Cornell Tech
Research Areas:
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Smart transportation
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Urban living
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Marketplaces
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Business model innovation
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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
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Robert Jarrow
Ronald P. Lynch Professor of Investment Management, Johnson
Lawrence Jin
Associate Professor of Finance, Dyson
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Research Areas:
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Asset Pricing
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Behavioral Finance
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Neuroeconomics
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AI and Behavioral Economics
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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
Research Areas:
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Intersection of international politics, technology, and national security
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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
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Peng Liu
Director of Real Estate and Singapore Tourism Board; Distinguished Professor in Asian Hospitality, Nolan
Yao Lu
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Johnson
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.
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Rafael Pass
Professor of Computer Science, Cornell Tech
Research Areas:
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Cryptography and its interplay with Computational Complexity and Game Theory
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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.
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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
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Mao Ye
Associate Professor of Finance, Johnson
Yian Yin
Assistant Professor of
Information Science,
Bowers CIS
Research Areas:
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Computational Social Science,
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Science of Science and Innovation,
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Complex System Modeling
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Ruihao Zhu
Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology, and Information Management
Nolan
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
Sumit Agarwal
Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance, Economics and Real Estate, Managing Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute, National University of Singapore
President, ABFER
Research Areas:
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Sustainability & FinTech
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Household Finance
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Financial Institutions.
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Real Estate
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Doron Avramov
Professor of Finance
IDC Herzliya
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
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Murillo Campello
Joseph Cordell Eminent Scholar in Finance, University of Florida
Lewis H. Durland Professor of Finance, Johnson (on leave)
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
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Agostino Capponi
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Jonathan Chiu
Senior Research Advisor
Bank of Canada
Francesco D'Acunto
A. James Clark Chair in Global Real Estate | Professor of Finance
Director of Research, Steers Center
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown 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
Jianqing Fan
Frederick L. Moore’18 Professor of Finance, Princeton University
Research Areas:
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Asset Pricing
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Financial Economics
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Financial Technologies and Machine Learning
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Statistics and Data Science
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Gavin Feng
Associate 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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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
Kay Giesecke
Professor of Management Science & Engineering and Director of the Advanced Financial Technologies Lab,
Stanford University.
Founder of Infima Technologies
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
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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
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Cam Harvey
Professor of Finance
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Research Areas:
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Decentralized Finance
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Investment Management
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Performance Evaluation
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Emerging Markets Finance
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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
Yiping Huang
Chair Professor of Finance and Economics, National School of Development, and Director, Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University.
Urban Jermann
Safra Professor of International Finance and Capital Markets, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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
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Bryan Kelly
Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
Theresa Kuchler
Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business
Josh Lerner
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
Bo Li
Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Chicago (on leave from UIUC)
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
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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
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Song Ma
Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, Yale School of Management
Christine Parlour
Professor and Sylvan C. Coleman Chair in Finance and Accounting, Berkeley Haas
Markus Pelger
Associate Professor of Management Science & Engineering,
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
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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
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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
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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
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Azeem M. Shaikh
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Suraj Srinivasan
Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration (Accounting and Management), Harvard Business School.
Johannes Stroebel
David S. Loeb Professor of Finance
New York university
Stern School of Business
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
Research Areas:
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Financial Economics
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International Finance
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Macroeconomics
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Public Economics
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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
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Kairong Xiao
Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business
Columbia University
Wei Xiong
John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance Professor of Economics
Princeton University
Research Areas:
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Capital Market Imperfections
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Behavioral Finance
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Digital Economy
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China's Financial System
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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
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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
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Junior Research Fellows
Group of promising pre-tenure researchers leading and contributing to Digital Economics and FinTech research.
Tania Babina
Assistant Professor,
Columbia Business School
Greg Buchak
Associate Professor of Finance, SIEPR Faculty Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Maryam Farboodi
Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor of Finance
MIT Sloan School of Management
Anastassia Fedyk
Assistant Professor of Finance and Barbara & Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Xiang Hui
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Washington University Olin Business School
Shota Ichihashi
Assistant Professor of Economics
Queen's University
Naz Koont
Assistant Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Ye Li
Assistant Professor and William W. Alberts Endowed Professor of Finance
University of Washington Foster School of Business
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Simon Mayer
Assistant Professor of Finance, Carnegie Bosch Junior Chair, Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
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
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Fahad Saleh
Associate Professor
University of Florida
Huan Tang
Assistant Professor of Finance, the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania
Industry Scholars
Practitioner thought leaders from economics, management, legal, and technology fields researching on FinTech.
Gordon Liao
Chief Economist, Circle Internet Financial, LLC
Yunbo Lu
Founder & CEO
Qixian Intelligent Technology
Research Areas:
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AI & Agent-Based Modeling
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Tokenization Engineering
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On-Chain Economics & Market Microstructure
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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
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Student Research Fellows
Outstanding students at Cornell pursuing the studies and research innovation in FinTech and Digital Economics.
Hoyin (Vic) Chien
Student Fellow since Fall 2025
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Ph.D. Student in Statistics and Data Science
Vic is a Ph.D. student in Statistics and Data Science at Cornell. His research interests lie at the intersection of high-dimensional statistics, machine learning, and asset pricing. His work focuses on bridging theoretical economic insights with machine learning methods for more efficient predictions and estimations. He is originally from Hong Kong, and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong.
Jihye Jang
Student Fellow since Spring 2023
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Ph.D. Student in Applied Economics, 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.
Sanya Kohli
Student Fellow since Fall 2023
Undergraduate Class of 2026 Operations Research Engineering
Sanya is a sophomore in the College of Engineering studying Operations Research Engineering and pursuing the Dyson Business Minor for Engineers. She is interested in financial engineering, data-driven analytics, and the implementation of optimization strategies in managerial and financial decision-making. Within these fields, Sanya is especially interested in applications of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence. Outside of research, she is part of Cornell BAJA Racing, where she assists in sponsor relations and creating sales presentations for their off-road vehicle.
Atharwa Pandey
Student Fellow since Fall 2024
Master Student Glass of 2025 (Dec), Operations Research Engineering, ORIE
Atharwa is set to pursue a Master's in Financial Engineering from the Operations Research and Information Engineering department at Cornell University. He holds a B.E. in Computer Science with a minor in Computational Economics from BITS Pilani. Atharwa's research interests span AI in Finance, Quantitative Finance, Machine Learning, and Asset Pricing. His work aims to leverage advanced computational techniques to solve complex financial problems and enhance decision-making processes within the finance industry.
Danish Safdariyan
Student Fellow since Spring 2025
Undergraduate Class of 2026
Computer Science, Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Danish is a junior studying Computer Science. She is interested in the intersection of fintech and artificial intelligence, particularly in algorithmic trading, quantitative finance, and blockchain applications in financial services. She is especially interested in exploring how machine learning and data-driven analytics can be applied to financial decision-making, risk management, and market efficiency. Outside of research, she has been involved in mentorship and event coordination at Cornell.
Lauren Sutioso
Student Fellow since Fall 2023
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Applied Economics and Management
Lauren is a junior in the Dyson School studying Applied Economics and Management. She is interested in the social implications of fintech, as well as the applications of big data, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity within the sector. Outside of research, she is involved in Smart Women Securities a
Jordan Velte
Student Fellow since Fall 2024
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Undergraduate Class of 2027
Applied Economics and Management
​Jordan is a sophomore in the Dyson School studying Finance, Mathematical Statistics, and Mathematics. He is interested in the intersection of finance and technology. Within these fields, he is especially interested in the applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in financial markets. Jordan is currently assisting faculty members on a related project in behavioral finance. Outside of FinTech@Cornell, he is involved as a Hunter Rawlings Presidential Scholar and is serving on the Student Advisory Board.
Former Student Fellows
Student research fellows who contributed to our initiative in the past and are now changing the world.
Anqi Li
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2024 - Spring 2025
Undergrad Class of 2025
Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences
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Anqi's research interests lie in FinTech and AI for Finance and Business. She currently actively explore how Large Language Models can be used for Scientific inquiry and innovation.
Logan Kraver
Student Fellow
Spring 2023 - Spring 2025
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Computer Science and Mathematics
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Logan is a junior 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.
Mei Lin Hu
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2022 - Spring 2025
Undergrad Class of 2025
Applied Economics and Management, Dyson
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Mei Lin is a Junior in Dyson studying business with a minor in Computer Science. She is interested in the intersection of finance and technology and has worked on researchregarding the regulatory implications of cryptocurrencies. At FinTech@Cornell, she is currently assisting faculty members on using NLP techniques to link company documents with theirmarketing strategies.
Pietro Bini
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2023 - Fall 2024
Ph.D. Student in Finance. Johnson
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Pietro is a Ph.D. student in Finance at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing using deep learning. Pietro studies investors’ heterogeneity, its role on price formation, and its impact on the equilibrium of financial markets. Prior to joining Cornell, Pietro was a research assistant in the Finance department of Bocconi University, where he received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. cum laude in Economics and Finance
Matthew Wong
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2023 - Fall 2024
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Information Science, Systems, and Technology and Business
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Matthew is a junior 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.
Rishi Kumar
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2023 - Spring 2024
Undergraduate Class of 2025
Computer Science, OR, and Information Engineering
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Rishi is an undergrad in the College of Engineering studying Operations Research and Information Engineering with a Dyson Business Minor. He is interested in the applications of modern technologies in equity research and portfolio management as well as the applications of blockchain technology in healthcare and consumer sectors. Outside Of research, he is involved in the Cornell Blockchain Club as well as a Hunter Rawlings Presidential Scholar.
Fred Sun
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Ph.D. Student in Finance, Johnson
Fred's research interests include market microstructure, FinTech, and understanding data of large size, high dimension, and complex structure in the finance market. He researches investor behaviors using big data methodology. Prior to joining the Johnson Ph.D. program in 2022, Fred worked as a research assistant at the University of Illinois and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Tyler Parente
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2023 - Fall 2023
Undergrad Class of 2024
Applied Economics and Management, Biometry and Statistics
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Tyler is a Senior from Connecticut majoring in Applied Economics and Management and Biometry and Statistics. Along with assisting with research at Cornell, he is also amember of the Big Red Yoga Club. In his free time he enjoys working out, reading, and watching sports.
Bobby Yu
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2022 - Fall 2023
Ph.D. Student in Real Estate, Nolan
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Bobby Yu is a 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.
Jongho Kim
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Ph.D Student in Management
Quantitative Marketing
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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, whileexploring 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 statisticalmethodologies and applying them to high dimensional data.
Qihong Ruan
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
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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
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
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
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2022 & Spring 2023
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
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2021 - Fall 2023
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Undergraduate Class of 2023 (Dec)
Information Science, Mathematics
Pratham is a senior at Cornell University. He is incredibly interested in how technology can be used to improveand 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. Heis also a co-lead of the Algorithmic Trading subteam in Cornell Data Science. He hopes to leverage his pastexperiences in the space to continue building products and ideas in the future. In his free time, he enjoys drivingaround the Northeast and visiting different cities.
Ethan Goldman
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
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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.
Johann Lee
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
Undergraduate Class of 2024
Computer Science, Economics
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Johann is a Senior double majoring in Computer Science and Economics. He is passionate about applying his background in machine learning to finance, using technology to analyze market characteristics and understand financial psychology. At FinTech@Cornell, he assisted Prof. William Cong on modeling corporate managerial decisions with reinforcement learning by forecasting financial statements with deep learning and automating feature creation. Outside of FinTech@Cornell, he is the president of Cornell Data Science.
Claire Wilson
Student Research Fellow
Fall 2021 - Fall 2022
Undergraduate Class of 2023
Computer Science, Operations Research and Information Engineering
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During her time with FinTech@Cornell, Claire had the privilege of working with Professors Cong, Rafieian, and Yoganarasimhan exploring two very different topics within the FinTech space. The first area of focus was dedicated to crypto-currency regulation, crime, and taxonomy spanning projects such as publishing Cryptocurrency Regulation and an Economic Classification of Tokens under Professor Cong in the TechREG Chronicle all the way to a large-scale data collection surrounding Crypto related crimes with a team of international researchers. During her later time as a FinTech Fellowship, Claire had the privilege of working on creating the corpus for research interested in seeing the effects of media biases, relative to the news outlets to photographed subject, effects photos selected.
Daisy Shu
Student Research Fellow
Spring 2021 - Spring 2022
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Undergraduate Class of 2022
Computer Science, Minor in Business
Daisy was the first FinTech@Cornell initiative fellow and spent her time during the fellowship expanding her FinTech horizon by assisting professors on various RA tasks, such as editing research papers and organizing conferences. She is a software enthusiast who is passionate about advancing cutting-edge technologies in the FinTech cloud space. Currently, she is a software engineer at Bank of America creating an end-to-end DBaaS on containers workflow for internal application owners under the Application and Database Services (ADS) team at Bank of America.
Visiting Fellows
Digital Finance Visiting Fellows and DEFT Visiting Student Fellows are short-term visiting researchers to the FinTech Initiative at Cornell.
Yujie Cai
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Peking University
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DEFT Visiting Student Fellow
Sept-Nov, 2025
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
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Yu Yan
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
National University of Singapore
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DEFT Visiting Student Fellow
Sept - Nov, 2025
Research Areas:
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FinTech
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Decentralized Finance
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Corporate Governance
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship
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Vikrant Vig
William R. Timken Professor and Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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April 2025
Xing Huang
Associate Professor of Finance Washington University in St. Louis
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Fall 2024
Matteo Maggiori
The Moghadam Family Professor of Finance
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Oct 2024, Virtual
Yinan Su
Assistant Professor of Finance
Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
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April 2024
Research Areas:
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Empirical Asset Pricing
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Financial Econometrics
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Banking and Networks
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Machine Learning
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Stefan Nagel
Fama Family Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Research Associate, NBER
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March 2024
Research Areas:
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Asset Pricing
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Investor Behavior
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Risk-Taking of Financial Intermediaries
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Machine Learning
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Siguang Li
Assistant Professor in FinTech Thrust Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou
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March 2024
Research Areas:
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Digital Economy
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Social Media and Finance
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Financial Economics
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Michael Sockin
Assistant Professor of Finance,
McCombs School of Business at University of Texas Austin
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Sept 2023
Jacopo Ponticelli
Associate Professor of Finance, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
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Oct 2022
Daniel Rabetti
Doctoral Candidate in Finance
Tel Aviv University
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DEFT Visiting Student Fellow
Fall 2022
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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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