I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a 2026-2027 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
I am also affiliated with CESifo, IZA@LISER, the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the Centre for AI, Management, and Organization at HKU.
My research uses field experiments, economic theory, and large-scale administrative data to study organizational economics, political economy, and innovation. I am particularly interested in how firms design labor markets, platforms, and information systems, with recent work on hiring, technological change, AI-mediated communication, and the political economy of firms and markets.
Before joining Rotman, I was an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School from 2016 to 2026. Before academia, I worked at Google in engineering, product management, and economic research.
I won the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Robert Beyster Fellowship, the CESifo Prize, and the Long Term Impact Award from Management Science. I was also named to Poets & Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40. My elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. From 2018 to 2024, I was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
News:
7/1: I will be a Russell Sage Visiting Scholar in 2026/27, starting this fall.
12/25: Coverage (HBR) of my research about applying market design to organizational problems.
9/25: Honored to win the inaugural Marie Curie Prize for the most creative paper at the Advances with Field Experiments conference organized by John List and Robert Metcalfe for our paper about noncompetes.
7/25: I am thankful to the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago for making me an affiliate fellow.
5/25: Honored to receive a grant from the Stellar Development Foundation to support my research (with Zikai Xu).
2/25: My paper about noncompetes was presented at the FTC.
11/24: Article about my work on prediction markets by Dan Schwarz.
5/24: I'm organizing the Non-Market Effects of Market Power conference. Check out Political Power and Market Power (with Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti).
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