Biography
I am an Associate Teaching Professor of Finance at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business.
My professional background spans finance academia, central banking, and, earlier, machine learning research. Prior to joining Northeastern University, I was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Earlier, I worked as an economist at the European Central Bank (ECB) and at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where I contributed to policy research and briefed top-level management – including the President of the ECB and the General Manager of the BIS – on banking-related items in my portfolio. Before transitioning to economics, I was a researcher in machine learning at the National ICT Australia and UC Berkeley, where I designed intelligent pursuit-evasion and navigation algorithms for dynamic environments with partial observability.
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Research
The current focus of my research is empirical banking, and my work naturally draws also from the field of real estate. Recent work examines the U.S. commercial banking sector's experience during the Great Recession, providing empirical evidence on the influence of liquidity and real estate risks on bank lending and solvency. Most of my work is solo-authored, and my papers have been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Economics and Business. I have also published policy research in the BIS Quarterly Review and research on machine learning in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. You can view/download my research papers here.
Teaching
I built my teaching experience in well-regarded MBA, MSc, and BA programs at Northeastern University, NUS Business School, Columbia University, and UC Berkeley, and my performance as an instructor has resulted in excellent teaching evaluations, as well as in teaching awards. My classroom delivery includes a mix of straight lectures, case studies, in-class exercises, as well as structured discussions that relate the course material to policy. I can teach courses in Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Real Estate Finance, Investments, Banking, and Microeconomics. My teaching evaluations are available here.
Education
My academic credentials consist in MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Economics from Columbia University, an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. I also attended the University of Cambridge's Law BA program, but withdrew from the course to focus on my academic career.
Personal
Outside of academic work, my time is occupied by two activities. The first is music performance. I am a fairly good singer, and I enjoy playing the guitar and the piano. The second is interior/exterior architecture. This is one of those rare areas where both sides of my brain meet as equals. You can view photos of my designs here.