FiDA 2026: Finance in the Digital Age

Agostino Capponi is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, with a courtesy appointment at the Columbia Business School. He is also the director of the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, and a member of the Data Science Institute.

Agostino's research interests broadly span financial technology, market microstructure,  financial networks, machine learning in finance, supply chains, energy systems and sustainability. Agostino's research has been published in major journals of his field, including  Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science,  Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Mathematical Finance. Agostino is co-editor of the book Machine Learning and Data Sciences in Financial Markets, published by the Cambridge University Press.

Agostino's research has been funded by major public agencies including the NSF, DARPA, U.S. Department of Energy, and private agencies and corporations including J.P. Morgan, IBM, Ripple, the Ethereum Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Global Risk Institute, the Clearpool Group, and the OCP Group.

Agostino serves as an area editor at Operations Research, and a co-editor of Mathematics and Financial Economics. Agostino is a past department editor at Management Science, and has been on the editorial board of major journals in his field, including Finance and Stochastics, Mathematical Finance, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Systems, and many others.

Camelia Kuhnen conducts research spanning household finance, labor and finance, and neuroeconomics. She serves as Department Editor at Management Science and Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Previously she was an Editor at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies. Prof. Kuhnen is the current President of the Society for Experimental Finance and has served as President of the Society for Neuroeconomics and as a Director of the American Finance Association. She is a faculty affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and also serves as Director of Research at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Chapel Hill. She has a PhD in Finance from Stanford University and a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Jonathan Chiu is a Senior Research Advisor in the Banking and Payments Department at the Bank of Canada. His main research interests concern monetary theory, banking, payments and financial infrastructures. His current research focuses on digital currencies, international monetary systems and tokenization. He has published on these topics in top economics journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economic Studies and Journal of Monetary Economics. He helps organize the CB&DC virtual seminar series and serves on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He also teaches monetary theory at Queen’s University, Canada. 

Dr. Ryan Clements is the Director of Advanced Research and Knowledge Management at the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC), and Chair of the Financial Innovation Hub with the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. He has published and spoken extensively on diverse topics in crypto-asset and fintech regulation, securities, and derivatives law in international anthologies, peer-reviewed and U.S. law reviews and published an expert report on Canadian cryptocurrency governance for the Public Order Emergency Commission. He received his Doctorate in Juridical Science at Duke University Law School, a Master of Laws, Magna Cum Laude, from Duke University Law School, a Bachelor of Laws (with Distinction), and a Bachelor of Arts, Economics (Honors, First Class) from the University of Alberta. He has advised various levels of government on fintech, crypto and securities matters and served on advisory boards of public and private fintech ventures. He has practiced corporate and securities law in Calgary and Toronto and is a member of both the Law Society of Alberta and Ontario. Prior to becoming the Director of Advanced Research and Knowledge Management at the ASC, he was an Assistant Professor and Chair in Business Law and Regulation at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. He was also formerly the Managing General Editor, and special fintech co-editor, of the Banking and Finance Law Review, a Senior Policy Advisor, New Economy, at the ASC, a member of the crypto-asset working group of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC – now CIRO), the New Economy Advisory Committee at the ASC, and CSA Investor Advisory Panel. 

Meera Paleja is Head of Investor Research and Behavioural Insights at the Ontario Securities Commission where she bridges research and policy to drive meaningful change in financial regulation. Her team has conducted behavioural science research on social media finfluencers, AI, and digital engagement practices including gamification and dark patterns. Meera brings experience from federal and provincial governments, the private sector, and academia, including as a lecturer at Rotman School of Management. She holds a PhD and postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience. 

Milo Bianchi is Professor in Finance at the Toulouse School of Economics. His research interests span digital finance, behavioral and household finance. His work has been published in leading economics and finance journals including Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and Management Science. Milo is junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, member of the Sustainable Finance and the Digital Finance Centers at TSE, and of the G53 Network for research in personal finance. Milo has received his PhD in 2007 from the Stockholm School of Economics and he has held research positions at various institutions including the World Bank, MIT, Paris School of Economics, Paris-Dauphine University, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. 

Agostino Capponi is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University, with a courtesy appointment at the Columbia Business School. He is also the director of the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, and a member of the Data Science Institute.

Agostino's research interests broadly span financial technology, market microstructure,  financial networks, machine learning in finance, supply chains, energy systems and sustainability. Agostino's research has been published in major journals of his field, including  Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science,  Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Mathematical Finance. Agostino is co-editor of the book Machine Learning and Data Sciences in Financial Markets, published by the Cambridge University Press.

Agostino's research has been funded by major public agencies including the NSF, DARPA, U.S. Department of Energy, and private agencies and corporations including J.P. Morgan, IBM, Ripple, the Ethereum Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Global Risk Institute, the Clearpool Group, and the OCP Group.

Agostino serves as an area editor at Operations Research, and a co-editor of Mathematics and Financial Economics. Agostino is a past department editor at Management Science, and has been on the editorial board of major journals in his field, including Finance and Stochastics, Mathematical Finance, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Stochastic Systems, and many others.

Camelia Kuhnen conducts research spanning household finance, labor and finance, and neuroeconomics. She serves as Department Editor at Management Science and Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance. Previously she was an Editor at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies. Prof. Kuhnen is the current President of the Society for Experimental Finance and has served as President of the Society for Neuroeconomics and as a Director of the American Finance Association. She is a faculty affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and also serves as Director of Research at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Chapel Hill. She has a PhD in Finance from Stanford University and a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Roxana Mihet is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne and a faculty member of the Swiss Finance Institute. Her research explores the intersections of financial technology, macroeconomics, asset pricing, and industrial organization. Mihet’s recent work investigates how technological innovations and algorithmic decision-making transform financial intermediation, asset allocation, and market efficiency, often amplifying disparities in access to capital and returns. She has also examined the role of data as a source of market power in the digital economy, highlighting the implications of AI-driven competition for firm dominance and social welfare. Her research combines empirical and theoretical approaches to inform debates on financial inclusion, innovation, market competition, and regulatory design. Mihet holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business and previously studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Chicago. 

Andreas Park is a Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto, appointed to the Rotman School of Management and the Department of Management at UTM. He serves as the Academic Director at the FinHub, Rotman’s Financial Innovation Lab and previously held the limited-term Canadian Securities Institute’s Research Foundation Chair. He has served as a lab economist for the Blockchain stream at the Creative Destruction Lab (a world-leading start-up accelerator program) and advised various entities such as regulatory agencies, FinTech start-ups, and large banks. Andreas teaches undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses on payments innovation, blockchain and cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance, and financial market trading, and his current research focuses on the economic impact of technological transformations such as blockchain technology. He co-authored a design proposal for a central bank-issued digital currency, commissioned by the Bank of Canada. He’s serving on the Ontario Securities Commission’s Market Structure Advisory Committee and currently heads the Canadian Securities Administrators Data Fee Methodology Committee. 

Katrin Tinn is an Associate Professor of Finance at McGill University, Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Desautels Faculty Scholar (2025–2028). Her research focuses on FinTech, Information Economics, and Innovation Economics, with current work on the tokenization of real-world assets, digital currency design, and smart-contract mechanisms for innovation and project financing. Her research has been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, Management Science, and the Journal of Economic Theory, as well as in volumes on alternative finance and digital currencies (Palgrave Macmillan, World Scientific, and VoxEU). Her work also spans sustainable finance, entrepreneurship, and policy. She serves as the Head of the CIBC Office of Sustainable Finance within McGill’s Sustainable Growth Initiative. Her experience includes work for the Bank of Canada, ECB, IMF, World Bank, and EBRD, as well as for the banking and asset-management sector. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics,

Hanna Halaburda joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics in September 2019. In her research, Professor Halaburda studies how technology changes economic forces and thus affects business models and interactions in the marketplace. Professor Halaburda’s work has been published in Management Science, RAND, American Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, and other academic journals. In 2015 she co-authored Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currency, the first book analyzing digital currencies from the economic perspective. Prior to joining NYU Stern, Professor Halaburda was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, and a senior economist at the Bank of Canada.