Affiliated Cornell Faculty

Nancy Chau
Professor, Dyson School201A Warren Hall
Research focus: international trade, regional economics, and economic development, with particular emphasis on the economics of information and uncertainty

Zhihong Chen
Professor Adjunct, Department of History327 Mcgraw Hall
Research focus: modern Chinese history, Sino-soviet relations in the 1920s, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese business language and culture

Will Cong
Professor of Finance, Rudd Family Professor of Management, Johnson School401D Sage Hall
Research focus: financial economics, information economics, FinTech and Big Data, entrepreneurship, and China’s economy and financial system

Eli Friedman
Professor, ILR School's Department of Global Labor and Work368 Ives Faculty Wing
Research focus: development, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, social movements, urbanization, work and labor

Oliver Gao
Howard Simpson Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering313 Hollister Hall
Research focus: data science, networks/complex systems, engineering computing, statistics/econometrics, and mathematical optimization & operations research in technology, information, etc.

Ying Hua
Associate Professor, Department of Human Centered Design in the College of Human Ecology3421 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Research focus: sustainable building policy, practice, and education in China, sustainable campus research and practice both in China and other parts of the world

Ravi Kanbur
T. H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Dyson School301J Warren Hall
Research focus: development economics, public economics and economic theory. He is well known for his role in policy analysis and engagement in international development

Andrew Karolyi
Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management, Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business174A Statler Hall
Research focus: investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets

Peng Liu
Professor, School of Hotel Administration, Singapore Tourism Board Distinguished Professor in Asian Hospitality Management465B Statler Hall
Research focus: real estate investment and finance, securitization, commodity pricing, energy and sustainability, tourism, retail, recreation and hospitality management

Victor Nee
Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor, Department of Sociology323 Uris Hall
Research focus: theory, economic sociology, stratification/inequality, immigration and race, transitions from state socialism

David Ng
Professor, Dyson School310D Warren Hall
Research focus: empirical asset pricing, fund flows and how fund flows affect asset prices domestically and internationally, implied cost of capital and its applications in finance

Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Dyson School301A Warren Hall
Research focus: macroeconomics of financial globalization; financial regulation, monetary policy frameworks and exchange rate policies in emerging markets; and the Chinese and Indian economies

Peidong Sun
Distinguished Associate Professor of Arts & Sciences in China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of History120 Mary Ann Wood Drive
Research focus: social and cultural history of China, particularly since 1949

Calum Turvey
W. I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance, Dyson School, Director of MS Program for the Dyson School210C Warren Hall
Research focus: food & agricultural economics, farm & agribusiness management, etc.

Mao Ye
Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management365 Sage Hall
Research focus: market microstructure, big data, Fintech

Wendong Zhang
Associate Professor, Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management461 Warren Hall
Research focus: land economics, Chinese agriculture, nonmarket valuation, integrated ecological-economic modeling, agricultural and environmental policy, applied microeconometrics, agricultural trade