Dr. Jiasun Li is an assistant professor of finance at George Mason University School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from UCLA Anderson School of Management. His current research interest is in blockchain technologies and FinTech applications. His research papers analyze the incentives of participants in distributed consensus protocols, the role of crypto tokens in jumpstarting platforms, the industrial organization of cryptocurrency mining pools with implications for blockchain (de-)centralization and energy consumption, factor structures in cryptocurrency returns, manipulations on crypto exchanges, crypto derivatives, and the security design of investment crowdfunding for both investors and entrepreneurs to harness “wisdom of the crowd”. he has also studied information economics, the theory of the firm, governance, market microstructure, and transportation.
His research has published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies, among others. He is a winner of the Yihong Xia Best paper award at CICF and Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) academic paper competition, along with many other paper prizes. He has served on the committees of major blockchain conferences such as Financial Crypto, ACM Advances in Financial Technologies, ACM DeFi, and IEEE Crypto Valley, and partnered with the U.S. government and private sectors on blockchain economics research. He is a frequent speaker to academic and industry audiences, at many institutions including the Federal Reserve, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, IMF/WB, National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT, Michigan, NYU, UC Berkeley, and Yale, etc.
He has taught blockchain technologies to both MBA and undergraduate students and has been voted by students “Faculty of the Year.”
