Fellowship Programme

Agostino is an Associate Professor in the IEOR Department at Columbia University. His research interests are in financial technology, market microstructure, systemic risk, and economic networks. He is a fellow of the crypto and blockchain economics research forum, and an academic fellow of Alibaba's Luohan academy. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Digital Finance and Technology and former Chair of the SIAG/FME Activity Group and INFORMS Finance Section.

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Carsten Sørensen is an Associate Professor in Digital Innovation at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is also the founder of the mobility@lse research unit. He is furthermore a Senior Editor of the Information Systems Journal, as well as an Associate Editor for Journal of the AIS and the e-Service Journal.

Claudio J. Tessone is the co-founder and Chairman of the University of Zurich (UZH) Blockchain Center. He is also a Professor of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies at the UZH Informatics Department, as well as the director of the Summer School: Deep Dive into Blockchain and the Certificate of Advanced Studies on Blockchain.

Professor Saleh has work published by journals including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science and the World Scientific Annual Review of Fintech and a member of the Crypto and Blockchain Economic Research (CBER) Forum. He holds a PhD in Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business, and graduate and undergraduate in Operations Research Engineering from Columbia University and Cornell University.

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Guy S. Liu is a Professor and Director of the Peking University HSBC Business School (PKU PHBS). He was also previously Head of Department at Brunel Universty and holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

John Augustine is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, where he co-founded the Blockchain Lab and the Cybersecurity Centre. Previously, he held roles at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre and at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Professor Yuan received her Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her academic research focuses on developing macro-finance and asset pricing theories with liquidity implications in environments with information and market frictions and testing their empirical implications. She is currently working on liquidity and financial stability in bank and non-bank financial institutions including DeFi, and developing applied theories of (digital) money and public liquidity.

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Dr. Esposito is Co-Founder at Nexus FrontierTech, an AI scale-up venture. He is a Senior Advisor to the Ideation Center of Strategy& at PwC in Dubai and to the UC Berkeley SkyDeck incubator and previously inducted in Thinkers50 as one of the 30 most prominent rising business thinkers in the world. He holds prestigious fellowships at UCL as a Policy Fellow, at University of Cambridge as a Senior Associate, and as Senior Fellow for the Digital Impact Alliance from the United Nations Foundation.

Nicholas MacGregor Garcia is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches and develops the curriculum for fintech, blockchain, and AI governance and ethics.He is also the Co-Director of NUS Fintech lab where he fosters collaborations between industry and academia to nurture a knowledge ecosystem.He has a Ph.D in Philosophy from NYU Stern, a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in Chemical Engineering from Berkeley.

Terence Tse is a professor of finance at Hult International Business School and an affiliate professor at ESCP Business School, a co-founder and Executive Director of Nexus FrontierTech.He is a co-author of two international best sellers on Amazon. He has run seminars and workshops as well as given speeches on technology and digital transformation, megatrends, and topics in finance and economics.He obtained his doctoral degree from the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

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Tomaso Aste is a professor of complexity science at University College London (UCL), where he is also founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT), head of the Financial Computing and Analytics Group, and vice director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Computing & Analytics.