Will Cong is the Rudd Family Professor of Management, professor of finance, and founding director of the FinTech Initiative at Cornell University. He is also a finance editor at the Management Science, faculty scientist at the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies & Contracts (IC3), research associate at the NBER, founder of multiple international research forums, a former Kauffman Junior Fellow, Poets & Quants World Best Business School Professor, and 2022 Top 10 Quant Professor.   

Cong's research spans financial economics, information economics, fintech, digital economy, and entrepreneurship. He and his coauthors have pioneered the introduction of goal-oriented search and interpretable AI for finance, laid the foundations of tokenomics (covering categorization of tokens, cryptocurrency pricing, central bank digital currencies/payment systems, and optimal token monetary policy design), analyzed centralization issues and dynamic incentives in blockchains and DeFi, and developed data analytics for detecting market manipulation and better fintech regulation among others.