Lin William Cong
Scholar

Lin William Cong

Google Scholar ID: xB6K0E4AAAAJ
Rudd Family Prof. of Management & Prof. of Finance, Cornell University; Research Associate, NBER
AI & Big DataEntrepreneurship/InnovationDigital Economy/FinTechFinanceInformation Economics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
6,970
 
H-index
36
 
i10-index
65
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
31
list available
Contact
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - "Automation-Induced Innovation Shift" awarded the China International Conference of Finance (CICF) Best Paper Prize and MRS International Risk Conference (Boston) Global Association of Risk Professionals Research Excellence Award.
  • - "Blockchain for Environmental Monitoring" published in the Review of Finance as Editor's Choice.
  • - "Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools" (RFS 2021) is the sole winner of the Exponential Science Pioneers Award 2025 in Business Management & Financial Economics Category.
  • - “Textual Factors,” first introduced in 2018, combines text embedding and topic modeling through locality-sensitive hashing, is forthcoming in Management Science.
Miscellany
  • FinTech@Cornell Research Fellow, Daron Acemoglu, shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.