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Lin William Cong, Founding Faculty Director, FinTech Initiative @Cornell

Professor Will CONG is the Rudd Family Professor of Management, a tenured Professor of Finance and the founding director of FinTech at Cornell Initiative. He is also a Finance editor at the Management Science, Research Associate at the NBER, co-founder of two international research forums (ABFR and CBER) and was formerly a Kauffman Junior Fellow, Poets & Quants World Best Business School Professor, George P. Shultz Scholar, as well as a Lieberman Fellow. Professor CONG previously taught at the University of Chicago after earning his Finance Ph.D. and MS in Statistics from Stanford and A.M. in Physics jointly with A.B. in Math and Physics from Harvard. He studies applied theory, asset pricing, corporate finance, entrepreneurship and information economics. He pioneered interdisciplinary research on tokenomics, crypto asset pricing, AI for finance, blockchain forensics and design, how digitization and big data interact with competition, growth and entrepreneurship. His work has been recognized by numerous best paper prizes and grants and has been widely circulated and adopted in the industry. A highly sought-after keynote speaker at various international conferences and world forums. He advises leading FinTech firms and quant funds, as well as government and regulatory agencies around the globe.

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