AWARDS & HONORS

📌 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award ($672,369): Relationships in Finance, 2009-2014.

📌 National Science Foundation (NSF) Sci-SIP Award ($385,502): Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation, 2015-2021.

📌 3 x Winner of the Smith Breeden Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Finance in Asset Pricing (Distinguished Paper), (2007, 2008, 2010).

📌 Winner of the Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Asset Pricing (Distinguished Paper), 2013.

📌 Winner of the Inaugural Best Paper Award in Finance in Management Science, 2022.

📌 Invited to testify to the United States Congress on the impacts of government spending, 2010.

📌 Invited to brief the United States Congress on innovation policy, 2020.

📌 Invited to consult foreign governments, central banks, inter-governmental organizations, and sovereign ruling families on Innovation Policy, Impact Investing, Climate Change, Pension Structure, and Family Office Management.

📌 Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021.

📌 Awarded “Top Cited Article Award” from Wiley Publishing for the years 2020-2021 (“Lazy Prices”)

📌 Awarded “Best Selling Case Award” from The Case Centre for the year 2021 (“AQR’s Momentum Funds”)

📌 Winner of the John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition, 2021.

📌 Winner of the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business – PVH Corp. Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility, 2020.

📌 Winner of the Western Finance Association Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments, 2007.

📌 2 x Winner of the European Finance Association Best Paper Prize (2006, 2007).

📌 3 x Winner of the First Prize, Crowell Memorial Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments, PanAgora Asset Management, (2011, 2014, 2019).

📌 4 x Winner of the First Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition (2006, 2010, 2016, 2022).

📌 Winner of the Best Paper Prize of the Journal of Investment Consulting Academic Paper Competition, 2016.

📌 Winner of the First Prize Paper of the Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Paper Competition, 2016.

📌 Winner of the Best Paper Prize at the University of Cambridge Consortium on Asset Management, 2020.

📌 Winner of the Best Paper Prize at the Center for Financial Planning Academic Research Conference, 2019.

📌 4 x Winner of the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant (2009, 2010, 2013, 2022).

📌 Winner of the Jack Treynor Prize for superior work in the field of investment management and financial markets, sponsored by the Q-Group (The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance), 2016.

📌 Winner of the Best Paper Prize of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Forum, 2010.

📌 Winner of the Columbia Millstein Center & Investor Responsibility Research Center Grant, 2013.

📌 Winner of the First Prize, Istanbul Stock Exchange 25th Anniversary Best Paper Competition, 2010.

📌 Winner of the Financial Management Association Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments, 2020.

📌 Winner of the Paul Woolley Centre Academic Grant, 2010.

📌 Winner of the First Prize, the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research Award, 2015.

📌 Winner of the Emerald Citation of Excellence, 2009.

📌 Winner of the BSI Gamma Foundation Grant, Firm Characteristics and Investment Management, 2006.

📌 Winner of the Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, 2006.

📌 Named a Top 40 under 40 Business School Professor Globally - Poets & Quants, 2017.

📌 Named a Favorite MBA Professor of 2017 - Poets & Quants, 2018.

📌 Named one of Harvard Business School’s Best Teachers - CNBC, 2017. 

📌 Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008.

📌 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master’s World Powerlifting Champion (83kg), 2022

📌 World’s Strongest Man (80KG) Competitor, 2017.

📌 Set the All-Time World Record in the Squat in the 181 lb. drug-tested division with a squat of 630 lbs (December 2014) & the All-Time World Record in the Squat in the 165 lb. drug-tested division with a squat of 583 lbs (December 2016).