ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Finance - David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, California State University Northridge
-FIN355 Corporate Finance
-FIN459 Financial Modeling with Python
-FIN302 Personal Finance
-FIN352 Investments
-FIN639 Quant Finance in Python Language
Instructor of Finance - Spears School of Finance, Oklahoma State University
-FIN3113 Corporate Finance
-FIN4333 Financial Modeling
Teaching Associate - Spears School of Finance, Oklahoma State University
-Executive Ph.D. Applied Research Practicum (Ph.D. Level)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Finance
Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
M.S. in Finance
Reiman School of Finance, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
PROGRAMMING
Julia, Python, Jupyter Notebook, Matlab, R, Apache Spark, Docker
INDUSTRY SKILLS
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Financial Forecasting, Anomaly Detection
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Program Evaluation, Synthetic Control
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Natural Language Processing
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AWS Sagemaker
Risk Management Specialist - Industrial and Commercial Bank of China - USA, Head of Risk Management, New York City
DATABASES
CRSP, Thomson Reuters (13f), Factiva, I\B\E\S, SDC, Capital IQ, CSMAR, Ravenpack
Financial Loan Analyst - Bank of East Asia
HONORS & AWARDS
Academic Awards — Financial Manangement Association
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Best Paper Award (Semifinalist) in Corporate Finance, FMA 2018
Academic Awards — Oklahoma State University
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University Distinguished Fellowship Award 2018
Teaching Awards — Oklahoma State University
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Distinguished Teaching Award 2017
Academic Awards — Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business
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Philips Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award 2017
American Finance Association — AFA Annual Meeting Chicago
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Doctoral Student Travel Grant 2017
Southwestern Finance Association— SWFA Annual Meeting Albuquerque
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Doctoral Student Travel Grant 2018
Academic Awards — Oklahoma State University, Spears School of Business
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Dr.Poole Travel Grant 2016
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Top Tier Fellowship for Doctoral Student 2015
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Top Tier Fellowship for Doctoral Student 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
American Finance Association
Financial Management Association
Southwestern Finance Association
Midwest Finance Association
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Faculty Advisor - FMA (CSUN Chapter)
College Service - Associate Director of Center for Asian Finance and Business Research
Referee - European Financial Management
Referee - British Accounting Review
Referee - Journal of Financial Research
Referee - International Review of Economics and Finance
Session Chair - SWFA Annual Meeting 2018
Discussant - SWFA Annual Meeting 2018
Discussant - FMA Annual Meeting 2017
Discussant - FMA Annual Meeting 2016
Discussant - Southwest Finance Symposium 2016