Dr. Sudheer Chava

Biography

Sudheer Chava received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. He previously earned an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore and worked as a fixed income analyst at a leading investment bank in India. He has held academic positions at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University before joining Georgia Tech in 2010. At Georgia Tech, he teaches a variety of courses at both undergraduate and master’s levels, including Derivatives, Risk Management, Valuation, Cases Financial Crisis, and Credit Risk Analysis, and theoretical and empirical finance courses at the doctoral level. His research interests encompass Credit Risk, Banking, and Corporate Finance, and his work has been published extensively in premier finance journals such as the Finance Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. His research has garnered numerous accolades, including the Ross award for a paper published in Finance Research Letters in 2008 and a finalist position for the Brattle Prize for a paper published in the Journal of Finance the same year. Additionally, he has received multiple external research grants from entities such as the FDIC-CFR Fellowship and Morgan Stanley. His scholarly work has been presented at various finance conferences across the U.S. and internationally.

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