I am originally from Boston. I have lived in Maryland obviously in Utah and at Louisiana in New Orleans, in Indiana. I lived in India for year, I taught in France for quite a few years and I've lived in Israel. Outside of work I like to hike and love being outdoors in general and I love to travel.

In our undergraduate program we have of wide variety of courses in finance. The ones that I've been most involved in are experiential courses where students both learn skills and learn application. So one of the things that I teach is class call the honor student investment fund and there we have about half a million dollars that the students actually invest. And they learn about doing that by learning how to do fairly deep level research on and writing reports, revising report, making reports to our professionals, business professionals and things like that. I also teach a course called finance intensive training where we take subjects that they've learned in other finance classes and learn how to build model as they would do and a real job on and learn how to make presentations about stock pitches and various other kinds of things, a lot of application. At the graduate level we offer with the master's degree in finance and there I teach a lot of technical classes so things that involved derivatives, primarily. I also teach in general business classes in our program of the financial stress which is one of my research interests.

The very first year that I was teaching, my background is in mathematics and statistics, and so the very first year that I was teaching I have learned a lot about the theory and things like this in finance. But I thought it would be fun to do some practical applications so for example when I was teaching the Black & Scholes option pricing model which is a very standard model in finance, I thought well I'll use real prices. And one of the things I've realized that very first year, I didn't actually know what things to fill in to these formulas that I had been taught in school and I had learned about. And so from the beginning, I've been fairly interested in trying to make classes real and to bridge the gap. Though we often teach students a lot of theory and I think that's important that something is very hard to learn on your own and so I think the academy has a role in teaching students some of the most challenging aspects of putting together a model but we often fail to connect that model to what a person might do in their own career. And so that is something that I identified early in my career but didn't really have an idea about how to do and you know through that through the years of my career, I've learned much more about how one can go about building realistic application while teaching necessary skills. The kind of jobs my students go on to do, I aim for what I call nationally competitive jobs. So those could be job found locally but ones where they would look at a national pool of candidates and those kinds of jobs would involve equity research, investment banking or high level corporate rotational programs in finance and things like that.