Research Interests

Financial intermediation; corporate finance; and household finance

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, Finance, University of Miami Business School, 2015 - Present
• Assistant Professor, Finance, Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business, 2011 - 2016
• Instructor, Finance, Southern Methodist University Edwin L. Cox School of Business, 2010 - 2011
• Treasury and Relative Value Groups, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 2005
• Financial Instruments and Credit Groups, Citadel Investment Group, 2003 - 2005

Specialties

• Banking
• Corporate finance

Degrees

• Ph.D., Finance, University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School, Dec 2010
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
• B.Tech., Computer Science, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 2001

Honors and Awards

• Douglas Evanoff Best Paper Award, The Chicago Financial Institutions Conf., 2016
• Marshall Blume Award in Financial Research, The Wharton School, 2013
• Shmuel Kandel Award, Utah Winter Finance, 2010
• President of India Gold Medal, IIT Guwahati, 2001
• 3rd Place at MIT IDEAS Competition, 2001