Finance Faculty Honors

• Whitman Research Fellow 2010-2012

• 2012 Guttag Junior Faculty Award
• 2010 Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University
• JPMorgan Chase Research Fellow, 2009
• Editorial Board, Journal of Operational Risk, 2009-present
• Selected as one of "The Top 50 Faces of Operational Risk” by OpRisk & Compliance, a leading European practitioners’ magazine on operational risk
• Recipient of a grant from the FDIC's Center for Financial Research to support research on operational losses and credit risk. The proposal was one of nine selected for 2008 funding. It is based on joint research with Yu, F., from Michigan State University.

• "International Educator Award," CNY International Citizen Award Honoree 2010, International Center of Syracuse
• Global Vision award 2009, Going Global Awards, Central New York

• American Real Estate Society 2010 Best Research Paper for “Heterogeneous Investors, Negotiation Strength & Asset Prices in Private Markets: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate;” The award is sponsored by CoStar Group
• Nominated for Best Paper Award in Investments by the Financial Management Association for "Heterogeneous Investors--Negotiation Strength and Asset Prices in Private Markets"
• Appointed Member, AREUEA Dissertation Awards Committee, 2010
• Recipient of the 2009 Oberwager Award for faculty who make a difference in the lives of students outside the classroom
• Received a grant from the Real Estate Research Institute for research project "Public vs. Private Market Valuation of Commercial Real Estate Assets," 2008
• Best Research Paper on use of commercial real estate data for "Buyer and Seller Motivations, Bargaining Power and Transaction Prices in the Commercial Real Estate Markets: Evidence from the Section 1031 Exchange Market,” American Real Estate Society 2007, sponsored by CoStar Group.
• Recipient of the Gerald R. Brown 2003 Award for Best Paper on “Real Estate and Finance”

• Recipient, KPMG Foundation Accounting Minority Doctoral Scholarship, 2010-11

• Awarded a visiting researcher position at Microsoft Corporation, working at Search Labs at Mountain View on large scale time series modeling.
• Awarded a research grant for "Real-Time Adaptive Pattern Matching" from JPMorgan Chase.

• 2010 Presenter at the American Finance Association Meetings in Colorado, “The Economic Consequences of Perk Disclosure," co-authored with Y. Grinstein and N. Yehuda.
• 2008 Wheeler award from Numeric Investors
• 2007 Crowell third prize from PanAgora Asset Management
• 2001 award for best paper in the area of investments from the American Association of Individual Investors

• Awarded the Thomas Finucane Award for Exceptional Scholarship, 2009
• Awarded a visiting fellow position at Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, working on operational risk modeling, Summer 2009

• World Bank: Spot Awards, 2001, 2002 and 2003