Polarized DIS and Spin Puzzle in AdS/CFT Bowen Xiao LBNL AdS/CFT is a powerful tool to investigate gauge theories in strong coupling regime. Recently, we have been able to extend apply AdS/CFT to polarized deep-inelastic scattering and calculate polarized structure functions both in finite Bjorken-x and small Bjorken-x regimes. In this talk, I will start with introductions to AdS/CFT, explain how DIS is modeled in AdS/CFT, then show the results for polarized structure functions of a spin-1/2 fermion. In the end, I will discuss the spin puzzle in AdS/CFT, and compare with the well-known spin puzzle in QCD.