Bio:
Vincent Lefrere is an Assistant Professor in Digital Economics at Institut Mines-Télécom Business School, LITEM, since November 2019. In May 2020, he completed his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Paris Saclay & IMT BS. His academic work was recognized with an Honorable Mention from the French Association for Research in Digital Economics (AFREN) in 2021. His general research interests include machine learning and artificial intelligence, privacy, and digital platforms. His research is empirical and employs various methods, including natural field experiments with web-scraped data.
He has published in various journals, including Management Science and Academy of Management Perspectives. He was a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan during 2023-2024, working at the intersection of AI, copyright, and bias. He also served as a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the PEEX research group, focusing on the impact of the GDPR.
In 2016, he graduated with honors from the Master IREN Paris Saclay, specializing in digital economics. During his bachelor’s studies at Université Paris Saclay, he spent one year at the University of Calgary in Canada.