PhD Candidate in Finance

Research Interests:

• Labor markets, ethics, economic development, and entrepreneurial finance. Currently, my research projects explore the effects of FinTech on economic outcomes, effects of market forces on the misconduct behavior of economic agents, effect of trust on financing for startups, institutional frictions that discourage creditors from lending despite improved creditor rights in a developing economy (India), and employment effects due to tax benefits to technology startups.

Teaching Interests:

• I am interested in teaching any of the corporate finance and investments related courses. I am also equipped to teach methodology courses (financial econometrics, data analysis, etc.) both at graduate and undergraduate level. I am interested in teaching FinTech related courses too.

Experience:

• Three working papers in finance.

• Presented my research at five different conferences.

• Experience in Big Data, Data Analysis, Textual Analysis, Econometrics, Economics and Finance.

• Trained in Mathematics and Statistics.

• Ability to handle both technical and finance related projects.

• Experience with company and stock market valuation through consulting projects.

• Experience with both emerging markets and developed markets.

• Experience with multiple programming languages (MATLAB, Python, R, SAS and Stata).

Latest:

• ``Evolution of Financial Advisory Market with the Advent of Robo-advisors'',  R&R, Managerial Finance.