Ruiqing "Sam" Cao is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. Her research focuses on the digital economy, and intersects with a range of topics in entrepreneurship, finance, and the labor market. Previously, she was a digitization post-doc at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics & Mathematics, and Global Affairs from Yale University.