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Gabelli Chair and Professor of Finance Miami Herbert
Business School University of
Miami 517B Jenkins Building 5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146. akumar @ miami.edu. 305-284-1882. Bio: Alok Kumar is the Gabelli Asset Management Chair and a Professor of Finance
at the Miami Herbert Business School. Previously, he was also an Associate
Professor of Finance at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas
at Austin, and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Mendoza College of
Business, University of Notre Dame. He was also a part-time Distinguished
Research Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School in the U.K. and a
part-time Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin University in Australia. At the University of Miami, he has taught both undergraduate and
graduate level courses in Investments, Behavioral Finance, Impact Investing,
and Applications of AI and Machine Learning to Finance. He has also taught a
Ph.D. seminar class in Behavioral Finance. Professor Kumar received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur. He obtained
an M.S. in Engineering Sciences (with an emphasis on Robotics and AI) and an
M.E. in Engineering Management from the Thayer School of Engineering at
Dartmouth College. He also has an M.A. in Management (Finance) from Yale
University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. Professor Kumar's research interests lie at the intersection of
Economics, Finance, and Psychology. He is an expert in the area of Behavioral
Finance, and his work has appeared in top Finance, Accounting, Economics, and
Management journals such as the Journal
of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies,
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of
Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Management Science, Games
and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Review of Economics and Statistics.
His research has also been covered in the Wall Street Journal, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the Montreal Gazette, Forbes, and SmartMoney.
Professor Kumar has served as a consultant for several firms, including the
Commonfund, Postnieks Capital Management, Validea, and Bluecrest Capital. Life goes on! Last Updated: 11/20/2022 |
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