Lin William Cong

Lin William Cong is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Chicago and a faculty affiliate at the Center for East Asian Studies. His research interests include financial technology and innovation, entrepreneurial finance, information and mechanism design, real options, statistical learning, and China’s economy and financial markets. He is a member of academic associations including the European Finance Association and the Econometric Society and an adviser for nonprofit organizations and fintech start-ups such  as the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance and String Labs. Cong has a Ph.D. in finance and a M.S. in statistics from Stanford University, where he received  the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship for outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and university service and the Asian American Award for graduate leadership. He also has dual degrees from Harvard University: an A.M. in physics and an A.B. in math and physics, with a minor in economics, and a language citation in French. He graduated top in physics, summa cum laude.