Dr. Ai Deng has two decades of years of experience in economic consulting, academic research, and project management. He has advised clients in some of the largest cartel and market manipulation cases in the past decade. His experience spans industries including advertising, high tech, finance and commodities, auto parts, real estate, publishing, chemicals, vitamins, digital platforms, and energy. Dr. Deng has worked with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on issues such as financial market manipulation and merger investigation.