Education

Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Ph.D. in Finance, May 2010 expected
M.Phil. in Finance, May 2008
Masters of Business Administration with Honors, May 2000

Brown University

Sc.B. with Honors in Biomedical Engineering, May 1995

Research Interests

Corporate Finance
Executive Compensation and Incentives
Behavioral Finance
Portfolio Choice
Derivatives

Publications

"News or Noise? Internet Postings and Stock Prices" (with Robert Whitelaw) 2001, Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 41-51.

Conference Presentations

Stocking Up: Executive Optimism and Share Retention

American Finance Association Annual Meeting (January 2010)
LBS Transatlantic Doctoral Conference (May 2009)

Honors

American Finance Association Travel Grant (2009)

Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

C.W. Nichols Foundation Fellowship (2010)
Benjamin Levy Fellowship (2009-2010)
Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society (2000)
Glucksman Scholarship (1999-2000)
Faculty Scholarship (1998-2000)
NYU Money Marketeers Scholarship (2000)

Brown University

Magna Cum Laude (1995)
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society (1994-1995)

U.S. medical device patents (co-inventor): 6,162,243, 5,980,553, and 5,895,406

Teaching Experience

Instructor, Foundations of Financial Markets (Spring 2009)

Stern Undergraduate College
Topics: CAPM, portfolio theory, fixed income valuation, equity valuation, arbitrage
Number of Students: 49

References

Xavier Gabaix, Professor of Finance

Robert Whitelaw, Edward C. Johnson 3rd Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance

Jeffrey Wurgler, Research Professor Finance