Teaching Interests

• Asset Pricing
• Corporate Finance
• Fixed Income
• Real Estate Finance
• Risk Management

Teaching Approach

My teaching combines rigorous expectations with individual support, with an emphasis on financial intuition and analytical problem-solving. My goal is for students to understand why a financial result makes sense, not simply how to calculate it. I also connect course material to current financial events and professional applications. In my AI in Finance: IPO Analysis Project, students value a real company preparing to go public from its S-1 filing, use a large language model to produce an initial analysis, and then challenge and refine its assumptions using the theory and intuition developed in class, with the eventual offer price serving as a benchmark.

Teaching Record

27 sections and more than 1,300 course enrollments since 2017; average instructor evaluation of 4.46/5.00. Teaching evaluations have consistently exceeded both Finance Department and Whitman School averages. In 2025, Financial Management evaluations averaged 4.66/5.00 on the instructor’s contribution to student learning and 4.78/5.00 on whether students would recommend me to a friend taking the course.

Teaching Experience

Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University

• Financial Management, Undergraduate, Fall 2020–Fall 2026
  • Broad core finance course covering capital budgeting, cost of capital, portfolio choice and the CAPM, capital structure, payout policy, raising equity capital (venture capital, private equity, and IPOs), mergers and acquisitions, option valuation, and risk management.
• Principles of Finance, Undergraduate, Fall 2017–Fall 2019