Research Associates

Since the opening of the Center in 1994, a number of students have taken advantage of the Center's resources to successfully transition into business and academic careers. This section provides information on Ph.D. and Masters students who have benefitted from CISDM support.

From left to right: Thomas Kunkel, Raj Gupta, Dulari Pancholi, Burak Cerrahoglu, Alper Daglioglu, Barsendu Mukherjee

Current Ph.D. candidates who receive support from CISDM

Will Spurgin

Ed Szado

Current Undergraduate students who receive support from CISDM

Richard Maxson

Careers of PhD. students who received support from CISDM

Raj Gupta (Ph.D., 2005) is the Research Director of CISDM.

Janie Bouges (Ph.D., 2005) is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Saira Latif (Ph.D., 2005) is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Vassilis Karavas (Ph.D., 2003) is Director of Quantitative Analysis & Risk Management in Lyra Capital LLC .

Sam Chung (Ph.D., 2000) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Long Island University.

Thomas Henker (Ph.D., 1999) is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focus is high frequency data.

Mark Potter (Ph.D., 1997) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Babson College. His interests include investments, mutual fund performance, and derivatives strategies.

Richard Spurgin (Ph.D., 1995) is an Associate Director of CISDM and Associate Professor of Finance at Clark University.

Aslihan Altay Salih (Ph.D., 1995) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey and focuses on time-varying volatility and equity derivatives.

Sudhir Nanda (Ph.D., 1994) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.

Careers of Masters students who received support from CISDM

Erkin Mustafokulov works at Southfield Corporation.

Barsendu Mukherjee works at the HARDT Group.

Manos Chatiras works at Lyra Capital.

Thomas Kunkel works at Alternative Investment Analytics.

Alper Daglioglu works at Morgan Stanley.