Email: willw at hku.hk
Office: 1230 KKL, HKU
Ph.D., The Wharton School, UPenn
B.S., Duke University
Email: willw at hku.hk
Office: 1230 KKL, HKU
Ph.D., The Wharton School, UPenn
B.S., Duke University
Will Wang is an Associate Professor of Management and Strategy at HKU Business School, the University of Hong Kong. He specializes in the intersection of economics, technology, business strategy, and data science. His research explores how technology, marketplaces, and algorithmic tools influence firm behavior, pricing, and strategic decision-making.
Professor Wang’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review and Marketing Science. In addition to his academic research, Professor Wang previously served as Chief Economist at Unity Technologies, where he advised on company strategy and the design of its ad network. Earlier in his career at Microsoft Research, he initiated and launched Azure Spot, the company’s first dynamic pricing product for its cloud services.
Professor Wang holds a Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University.
I lead the AI² lab. We tinker with the latest technologies and business models, e.g.,
Building an agentic economy
AIGC and creative workflows
Helping organizations adopt and scale AI
We welcome researchers and students with diverse backgrounds, especially those in computer science, AI/ML, economics, statistics, and operations research.
with Ulrich Doraszelski, Katja Seim, and Michael Sinkinson, American Economic Review, 2025, 115(3): 903-944.
Featured in: NPR Planet Money, Knowledge@Wharton
with Giovanni Compiani, Greg Lewis, and Sida Peng, Marketing Science, 2024, 43(3): 615-636.
with Yue Hou, Economics Letters, 2020, 194 (September): 109369.
with Ulrich Doraszelski, Katja Seim, and Michael Sinkinson
Microeconomic Insights, April 2025.
Azure Compute Usage Forecasting Using WaveNet: A Deep Learning Architecture and Churn Reduction Methods
with Chien-Hsun Huang, Sowmya Kumar, Emily Yan, Sachid Deshmukh, and Kaan Katircioglu
MSJAR, 2022, Vol. 17, 183-193.
Changing the Tiger's Stripes: Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State
with Ann Harrison, Marshall Meyer, Linda Zhao, and Minyuan Zhao
VoxEU, April 2019.
with Ann Harrison (Haas), Minyuan Zhao (Olin), Marshall Meyer (Wharton), and Linda Zhao (Wharton)
Conditionally Accepted, International Journal of Industrial Organization
Featured in: VoxEU, NBER Digest
Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Marketing
with Eric Auerbach (Northwestern), Hongwei Liang (Microsoft), Sida Peng (Microsoft), Andy Wu (Harvard), and Feng Zhu (Harvard)
Reject & Resubmit, Information Systems Research
with Chuqing Jin (Toulouse) and Sida Peng (Microsoft)
with Marjorie McElroy (Duke)
with Jin Soo Han and Subin Kim (KAIST)