Lin William Cong

Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Endowed Chair Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he is the founding faculty director for the FinTech Initiative. He is also an Editor at the Management Science, an editorial board member for multiple leading academic and practitioner journals, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior fellow and founding track director at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, a faculty scientist at the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts, a lead founder of multiple international research forums, and is formerly a Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellow, an UBRI Educator Awardee, a Poets & Quants 40 under 40 World Best Business School Professor, a 2022 Top 10 Quant Professor, a finance professor at the University of Chicago, and a George Shultz Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. As a world-leading scholar and co-founder for the interdisciplinary field of AI and Business, digital economics, and financial technology, he has been recognized with numerous paper prizes and research grants, keynote and seminar invitations at hundreds of international conferences, world-renowned universities, venture funds, investment and trading shops, and central banks. He has also advised leading investment and FinTech and investment firms, and various government and regulatory agencies. Prof. Cong received his Ph.D. in Finance and MS in Statistics from Stanford University, and A.M. in Physics jointly with A.B. in Math and Physics, a minor in Economics, and a language certificate in French from Harvard University.