Curriculum Vitae
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Employment
2024 –
Associate Professor (with tenure)Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University
2018 – 2024
Assistant ProfessorRutgers Business School, Rutgers University
2012 – 2018
Assistant ProfessorMendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
2001 – 2004
Manager, Banking ServicesThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), New Delhi
Education
2012
PhD in FinanceUCLA Anderson School of Management
2006
Master in Financial EngineeringHaas School of Business, UC Berkeley
2001
MBA, Finance & Information ManagementManagement Development Institute, New Delhi
1998
BE, Electrical & Electronics EngineeringBangalore University, Bangalore, India
Honors & awards
2025 – 2028
RBS Dean's Research Seed Fund (RSF)
2025 – 2027
David Whitcomb Research Professor
2024
RBS Dean's Meritorious Teaching Award
2023
RBS Dean's Meritorious Research Award
2022
SNF Grant 212481 (CHF 300,000)"The determinants and corporate implications of credit derivatives: Evidence from the CDS market"
2011 – 2012
UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
2010
American Finance Association Travel Grant
2006 – 2009
UCLA Anderson Fellowship
Selected invited presentations
2026
FDIC Annual Bank Research Conference (upcoming); Indian School of Business Summer Research Conference; Wharton–Chicago–Harvard Insolvency and Restructuring Conference; Financial Intermediation Research Society; Yale Program on Financial Stability "Fighting a Financial Crisis" Conference; Eastern, Financial Management, and Midwestern Finance Associations; AFA Junior Faculty Mentorship Program; Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking.
2025
EFA Annual Conference; RCF-ECGI Corporate Finance and Governance Conference; Friends of Women in Finance Symposium (NY); International Moscow Finance Conference; FMA Annual Conference; Annual Financial Markets and Liquidity Conference.
2024
FMA, WFA, MFA Annual Conferences; Sydney Banking and Financial Stability Conference; Pacific Basin Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Management Conference.
2023
FIRS Annual Conference; BI Norway Seminar Series; Norwegian School of Economics Seminar Series; University of Nebraska.
2022
Fixed Income and Financial Institutions Conference (USC); Federal Reserve Stress Testing Research Conference (Boston Fed); U.S. Treasury Office of Financial Research; Kent State; UT Dallas; Michigan Brown Bag; Cincinnati.
2017 – 2021
AFA, WFA, NFA, MFA, EFA; MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy; Chicago Financial Institutions Conference; Baffi Carefin International Banking Conference; IFSID Conference on Derivatives; Luxembourg Asset Management Summit; and others.
2012 – 2016
SFS Cavalcade; Notre Dame; UT Arlington; Florida State SunTrust Beach Conference; University of Melbourne; UNSW; University of Sydney; Monash; University of Western Ontario; Rochester; Ohio State; Case Western; Emory; BlackRock Investments.
Service
Service to the profession: Eastern Finance Association Executive Committee (2026).
Program committees: SFS Cavalcade (2016 – 2026), Financial Intermediation Research Society (2019 – 2026), European Finance Association (2016 – 2026), Chicago Financial Institutions Conference (2020), Northern Finance Association (2018), SFS Cavalcade Asia Pacific (2017).
Editorial board: Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (2021 – 2022).
Department service: Recruitment Committee (2024 – 2025, 2021 – 2022); PhD Advisory Committee (2021 – 2026); Doctor of Business Administration (2023 – 2026); Database Committee (2021 – 2022).
Referee services
Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Management Science, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Review of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Finance Research Letters, European Financial Management, Journal of Futures Markets, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Journal of Financial Intermediation, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, North American Journal of Economics and Finance.
Memberships
American Finance Association · Western Finance Association · American Economic Association