Jiasun Li

George Mason University Costello College of Business faculty Jiasun Li headshot

Robert D. Johnston Associate Professor of Finance, Finance

Contact Information

Email: jli29@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-3308
Office Location: Enterprise Hall, 332
Office Hours: By Appointment

Personal Websites

Jiasun Li

Biography

Jiasun Li is the Robert D. Johnston Associate Professor of Finance in the Costello College of Business at George Mason University. 

Jiasun is a stellar researcher, studying blockchain and emerging technologies in a finance context. He has published in finance and computer science, with 4 publications in the prestigious UT Dallas journal list, 7 peer reviewed publications overall, and several chapters and proceedings. He has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award (2024-2029), the Paris-Duaphine-PSL Fintech Chair in 2024, and four Ethereum grants. 

His work has been recognized in 2025 via the Research Symposium on Finance and Economics Best Paper Award and the Exponential Science Pioneers Award. He has recently returned to Costello from a visiting position at the Yale University Applied Cryptography Laboratory.  

Research Interests

  • Business emerging technologies (often at the intersection of business, economics, and computer science)
    • With a focus on blockchain technologies and FinTech applications

Education

  • PhD - Finance, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • BS - Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Research and Awards

  • Research Grants
    • Ethereum Foundation research grant, 2025-2026
      • (with Aviv Yaish and Fan Zhang)
    • Paris-Dauphine-PSL Fintech Chair research grant, 2024-25
    • Ethereum Foundation research grant, 2024-2025
      • (with Mariia Petryk)
  • Paper Prizes
    • Research Symposium on Finance and Economics Best Paper Award, 2025
    • Exponential Science Pioneers Award, 2025
    • Ripple-DEFT Lab Best Discussant Award at CBER, 2024
  • Teaching Award
    • Faculty of the Year, voted by all George Mason School of Business Master students, 2017
  • Technology prizes
    • 3rd place in the Initiative For Cryptocurrencies & Contracts (IC3) Blockchain Camp hackathon, 2024
      (with Andrew Miller, James Austgen, Pradyumna Shome, and Marwa Moallem)
  • Selected working papers:
    • Bitcoin Mining for Carbon Emission Reduction (with Hang Ren and Ioannis Bellos)
  • Publications
    • Cryptocurrency Exchange Listings (extended abstract)
      • (with Mei Luo, Muzhi Wang, and Zhe Wei)
      • Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Advances in Financial Technologies (AFT’25)
  • See more at Jiasun Li's website

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