Ruyu Chen
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Ruyu Chen is a research scientist at the Digital Economy Lab and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Her research lies at the intersection of the economics of innovation, information systems, and business strategy.
She focuses on two main areas: information technology adoption and firm performance, where she examines the drivers of IT adoption within firms and its impact on innovation and market performance; and AI and the future of work, where she leverages large-scale payroll data to study how emerging technologies, particularly generative AI, are reshaping employment, wages, skill demands, and organizational structures. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Strategic Management Journal.
Before joining Stanford, she earned her PhD in Managerial Economics from the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, with a graduate minor in Computer Science. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China and studied as an exchange student at the University of Copenhagen.
