I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at Louisiana State University's E. J. Ourso College of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Finance from Rice University in 2023. Before that, I obtained my B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology in 2014 and my M.Sc. from Rice University in 2017, both in Electrical Engineering. My research focuses on information economics. Specifically, I study how agents communicate in financial markets.
News
- Mar 17, 2025 | Discretionary Announcement Timing and Stock Prices, which I coauthored with Kerry Back, Bruce Carlin, and Chloe Xie, is now forthcoming in the Journal of Finance.
- Oct 30, 2024 | I had a fun and insightful conversation with Dave Mabe and Michael Nauss of the Line Your Own Pockets Podcast about "Finfluencers". Check it out here.
- Jul 14, 2024 | I presented Finfluencers at the NBER Summer Institute on Big Data and High-Performance Computing for Financial Economics. You can check out the video here.
- Sep 20, 2023 | My colleague Norman Schürhoff has discussed our paper with the German channel NDR. You can check it out here (from 13:35).
- Apr 25, 2023 | My Paper titled "Finfluencers" with Dmitry Livdan, Norman Schürhoff, and Ali Kakhbod was accepted for the 50th meeting of the European Finance Association.