Lin William Cong is the Rudd Family Endowed Chair Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, where he is the founding Faculty Director of the FinTech Initiative and founder of the Digital Economy and Financial Technology Lab (DEFT Lab).
He is an Editor at Management Science, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a senior fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. His research spans financial economics, FinTech, AI for finance, and the digital economy and has been published in top journals and featured in major global media.
Professor Cong is a leading authority on tokenomics, blockchain economics, and generative AI in finance and is a frequent keynote speaker and advisor to financial institutions, technology firms, and government agencies worldwide.
