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Dr. Li is an assistant professor of finance at George Mason University. His research interests lie in various aspects of blockchain technologies. His research papers have analyzed 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 (and building a robo-adviser for mining-power allocation), factor structures in cryptocurrency returns, manipulations on crypto exchanges, the market for crypto derivatives, the reliability of blockchain explorers, cross-chain communication protocols, and the security design of investment crowdfunding to harness “wisdom of the crowd.” He has also studied information economics, mechanism design, governance, market microstructure, and transportation. His research has been accepted in leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance and Review of Financial Studies, CS conferences/workshops such as FC and WISE, as well as practitioner-focused outlets including the Journal of Alternative Investments and Journal of Trading, 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 served as committee members of several blockchain conferences such as Financial Crypto, ACM Advances in Financial Technologies, ACM DeFi, and IEEE Crypto Valley. He holds a Ph.D. in finance from UCLA and B.S. in mathematics from Fudan University (Shanghai, China). For a list of Dr. Li’s public research papers, please see his Google Scholar Page. Some of his earlier blockchain research is also presented in a non-technical overview talk at UC Berkeley’s Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
Dr. Petryk is an assistant professor of information systems and operations management at the Costello College of Business, George Mason University. Her prior work analyzes the open-source software communities of the cryptocurrency projects, cryptocurrency market efficiency, and social network analysis, in which she provided thorough empirical analysis using large-scale data methodologies and collected datasets. Her research interests include emerging technology management, digital and mobile platforms, blockchain, and social networks. Dr. Petryk’s work appeared in reputable academic journals, including ISR, JMIS, and JFQA, and at premier IS conferences, including CIST and WITS. Before joining George Mason University, Dr. Petryk received her Ph.D. in information systems and operations management from the Warrington School of Business at the University of Florida and a minor Ph.D. degree in statistics from the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. Prior to her academic career, Mariia worked as a Data Analyst at an international telecommunications company (Ukraine) and financial services company (Ukraine). She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economic cybernetics from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. For a list of Dr. Petryk’s work, please see her personal webpage.
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