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. Before joining academia, 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. Earlier, I worked in the field of machine learning at the National ICT Australia and UC Berkeley, designing intelligent pursuit-evasion and navigation algorithms for dynamic environments with partial observability. For detailed information on my professional and educational background, you can refer to my CV here.
The 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.
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.
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 decided to withdraw from the course to focus on my academic career.
Two activities occupy my spare time. The first, is music performance. I am a fairly good singer, can play the guitar, and have been trying on and off to move past the "equipment buying" stage of learning to play the piano. The second, is interior/exterior architecture. This is probably the only activity where both sides of my brain meet as equals. You can view photos of my most recent design project here.
