Gergely Horvath, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Duke Kunshan University since July 2020. He is also a Senior Research Scientist at the Data Science Research Center of Duke Kunshan University. He received a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Alicante (Spain) in 2011. His research focuses on behavioral and experimental economics, social network analysis and labor economics. He worked on diverse research topics including the impact of social networks on job finding and labor market outcomes, the competition for social status in networks, discrimination in the labor market, entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities, whistleblowing in organizations, bank runs, and the evolution of cooperation. His articles appeared in various academic journals, including the European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, PLoS One, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Economics Letters and Journal of Theoretical Biology, among others.
Luyao Zhang (Sunshine) is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Senior Research Scientist at the Data Science Research Center at Duke Kunshan University (DKU). She has an abiding passion for interdisciplinary collaborations, especially for those related to computational economics (algorithmic game theory and mechanism design), crypto-economics (blockchain for social good, DeFi, and consensus algorithms), artificial intelligence (machine learning, AI trust, Human-Computer Interactions), and big interdisciplinary data (social media, sustainability, and global health). Her publications appear in economic journals for general interest and beyond, including American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the World Economy, Nature Scientific Data, ACM CCS, Remote Sensing, Journal of Digital Earth, Data and Information Management, etc. She has served the academic community and beyond. She serves on the research policy committee, the advisory board of the mind group as social science division representative, and on the faculty advisor program for student care at Duke Kunshan University. She also is the associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Social System and the ambassador in Shanghai for Startup Genome. She is the Founding President for SciEcon CIC, NPO registered in the UK, aiming to cultivate integrated talents in research, innovation, and leadership. She was the Founding President of Dance Illumination, an NPO with 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt status to promote diverse dance histories. She received Ph.D. in Economics at Ohio State University, supported by Presidential Fellowship and NSF dissertation grant. She graduated from Peking University with a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Math and Applied Math. She holds a blockchain strategy certificate from Oxford University and more than 30 certificates in Data Science.
Ziqiao Ao is a senior student at Duke Kunshan University, majoring in Data Science. She will pursue a master’s degree at Northwestern University Master of Science in Analytics program. She was well trained in the area of data science and business intelligence. Through previous experience, she made practical use of programming and data analytic tools, cultivating unique insights in blockchain, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), cryptocurrency, and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Also, she participated in multiple data-analytics projects, which strengthened her skills in data crawling, modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Additionally, she has made a mediocre achievement in employing rigorous technological methods to address problems in economics, finance, internet, e-commerce, etc., and has unfurled herself to these industries.