HONORS & AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS
- Outstanding Paper in FinTech Award (2023) for ``FinLex: An Effective Use of Word Embeddings for Financial Lexicon Generation,'' from the Journal of Finance and Data Science.
- Award for the Best Paper on Financial Institutions at the Western Finance Association (WFA) Conference (2019) for "Systemic Risk and the Great Depression" (with Kris Mitchener and Angela Vossmeyer).
- Best paper award, the Harry Markowitz Price (January 2019), for "A New Approach to Goals-Based Wealth Management" at the Journal of Investment Management (with Dan Ostrov, Anand Radhakrishnan, Deep Srivastav).
- Faculty Scholar of the Markkula Center for Ethics at SCU (2018).
- National Stock Exchange (NSE) India and New York University (NYU) grant for the project ``On the Interconnectedness of Financial Institutions: Emerging Markets Experience.'' (with Professors Madhu Kalimipalli and Subhankar Nayak), 2017.
- Santa Clara University, Faculty Senate Professor, 2017-18. (Awarded to one faculty person a year.)
- Best paper award at the R Finance
conference, (Chicago, May 2016) for the paper “An Index-Based Measure of
Liquidity.”
- Research Council of Canada SSHRC Insight Grant Award
for “On the Interconnectedness of Financial Institutions”
(with Professors Madhu Kalimipalli and Subhankar Nayak), April 2016.
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First Prize in the MIT Center for Financial Policy Contest to define SIFIs (March 2016).
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Best paper award at the R/Finance conference (Chicago, May 2015) for "Matrix Metrics: Network-Based Systemic Risk Scoring."
- 2014 GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals) Risk Management Research Program Award (with Seoyoung Kim).
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National Stock Exchange Best Paper Award, at the Center for Analytic Finance Conference, ISB, Hyderabad, for the paper titled ``Credit Spreads with Dynamic Debt,'' 2013. (with Seoyoung Kim)
- Consortium for Systemic Risk Analytics, MIT, Academic Board Member, 2012-.
- Dauphine-Amundi Award for Asset Management Proposal on Liability-Directed Investing, 2012. (with Seoyoung Kim and Meir Statman.)
- Santa Clara University, University-wide award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship (2012).
- Leavey School Research Award for the paper with George Chacko that won the Second Prize, SPIVA Research Award 2011-12, from McGraw-Hill and Standard & Poors.
- Expert Panel, Center for Financial Research and Planning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India, 2012-.
- Second Prize, SPIVA Research Award 2011-12, from McGraw-Hill and Standard & Poors.
- CFA Institute, Member, Capital Markets Policy Council (CMPC), 2011 - .
- Program coordinator, Risk Management,
Risk Measurement and Derivatives, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Center for Financial Research (FDIC-CFR), 2008 - .
- Santa Clara University, University-wide
Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship (2007).
- Breetwor Faculty Fellow, Santa Clara
University, 2005-2007.
- Nomination for the Smith-Breeden Prize for
the best paper in the Journal of Finance in 2005, for the paper
"Systemic Risk and International Portfolio Choice".
- Western Finance Association Caesarea Center
Award for the best paper on risk management at the WFA meetings
(Portland, Oregon) for the paper "Common Failings: How Corporate
Defaults are Correlated", 2005.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Research Fellow, 2004.
- Breetwor Faculty Fellow, Santa Clara
University, 2003-2004.
- Award for the best paper presented at the
2002 meetings of INQUIRE for the paper "Systemic Risk and International
Portfolio Choice" (with Raman Uppal).
- Voted second-best paper in the Journal of
Banking and Finance for A Theory of Banking Structure,
(co-authored with Ashish Nanda), 2001.
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Dean Witter Faculty Fellow, Santa Clara University, 2000-2002.
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Price Waterhouse Coopers Risk Institute Fellowship, 2000.
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Deloitte & Touche Chair of Risk Management, University of Antwerp,
Belgium, 1998.
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Merrill Lynch Award, 1997
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Faculty Research Fellow,
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),1996.
- Best Thesis Award from the Financial
Management
Association,sponsored by the American Instituteof Individual Investors,
1995.
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Best thesis award,
New York University, 1995 for the Ph.D.dissertation in the
graduating class.
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Canadian
Investment Review Academic Sponsorship Award for the
proposal "How Diversified are Internationally Diversified Portfolios"
(with Prof. Raman Uppal, University of British Columbia), 1995.
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Best Paper Award for the paper "Jump
Diffusion Processes and theBond Markets", awarded by the Financial
Management Association ofAmerica, and sponsored by the Fixed-Income
Analysis Society of New York,at the meetings in St. Louis, 1994.
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Beta Gamma Sigma,
New York, 1994.
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C.W.
Nichols Fellowship, New York University, 1993-94.
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Jules I. Bogen
Fellowship, New York University, 1992-93.
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Doctoral
Fellowship in Finance, New York University, 1990-92.
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Citicorp
Chairman's Award for Excellence, 1985.
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First
Rank in the MBA Class (of 165 students),
Indian Institute of Management, 1984.
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Industry
Fellowship, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1983-84.
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Gold Medalist
in Financial Management at theAccountancy Examinations of the
Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India, 1983.
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First
Rank and Gold Medalist at the University of Bombay B.Com Examinations
(of 13,563 candidates), 1982.
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National
Talent Search Fellowship (awarded annually to 150
students based on an All-India Examination), 1982.