Lin William Cong is currently the President’s Chair Professor in Finance, Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, with joint appointments at Nanyang Business School (Associate Dean and Professor in the Banking and Finance Division) and the College of Computing and Data Science (Professor in Data Science and AI Divisions). His research spans financial economics, information economics, AI, FinTech, digital economy, entrepreneurship, and has been featured in Bloomberg, CNN, the Economist, Washington Post, etc. With coauthors from interdisciplinary fields, he has pioneered AI for finance and social science, generative modeling for economics, information design in finance, and has laid the foundations of tokenomics (covering categorization of tokens, cryptocurrency pricing, central bank digital currencies/payment systems, optimal token monetary policy design), analyzed centralization issues, dynamic incentives in blockchains and DeFi, developed data analytics for detecting market manipulation and better FinTech regulation, among others. Cong earned a Ph.D. in Finance and a MS in Statistics from Stanford University, where he served as the president of Ph.D. students association, received the Asian American Award for Graduate Leadership, and recognized with the Lieberman Fellowship for outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and university service.