Ruru Hoong is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School. She will join MIT Sloan School of Management as an Assistant Professor in the summer of 2026.
Her research interests span AI, digital economics, privacy, and social media, primarily focusing on the (i) optimal design and integration of new digital technologies into real-world deployment, and (ii) rigorous evaluation of their heterogeneous impacts—specifically, how variations in user decision-making processes, tasks, and organizational structures shape both individual and firm-level outcomes. She graduated from Stanford in 2019. Prior to graduate school she has worked at BCG London, the World Bank, Singapore’s Ministry of Finance and Education, and GIC.
Her CV can be found here.
Outside of research, Ruru enjoys reading, writing, tango, jazz, and making ceramic teapots. A 2020 Faber Academy graduate, she is writing a speculative fiction novel — a dual narrative set in 1920s/2020s Shanghai & Southeast Asia, told through the lens of tea. Excerpts were shortlisted for Craft’s 2023 and 2024 First Chapters Contests. Her non-fiction and translations have been featured in Guernica Magazine (originally in Spittoon Monthly) and Spittoon Literary.
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