• Ph.D. in Finance (IFHE University)
• M.Phil. (ICFAI University)
• NET (UGC)
• M.Com (Mahatma Gandhi University)

• Assistant Professor, RCSS (May 2020 to present)
• Associate Professor, IBS Hyderabad (October 2017 to March 2020)
• Assistant Professor, IBS Hyderabad (August 2015 to September 2017)
• Teaching Associate, IBS Hyderabad (June 2010 to July 2015)

Teaching Interests

• Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Derivatives, Strategic Financial Management and Management Control Systems.

Research Interests

• Corporate Finance, Green Finance, Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing

• Strengthening operational creditor rights and trade credit: Evidence from creditor reforms, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024 (ABDC A).
• The Role of the Banking Sector in Economic Resurgence and Resilience: Evidence from Pacific Island Countries, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 2024 (ABDC A).
• The conditional impact of market conditions, volatility, and liquidity shocks on the arbitrage opportunities during pre‐COVID and COVID periods, International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2023 (ABDC B).
• Whether corporate green bonds act as armour during crises? Evidence from a natural experiment,  International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2022 (ABDC A).  
• Dynamics of Venture Capital and Private Equity Investments in India: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, November, 2023 (ABDC B).
• Bank-appointed directors and idiosyncratic volatility: Evidence from India, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2021 (ABDC A).
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Cash holdings in India: Evidence from a natural experiment, Finance Research Letters, 2020 (ABDC A).
• Creditors' governance, information asymmetry and debt diversification: evidence from India, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2020 (ABDC A).
• A frequency domain causality investigation between futures and spot prices of Indian commodity markets, Economic Modelling, 2014 (ABDC A).

• Whether Corporate Green Bonds Act as Armour during Crises?  Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Third SEBI-NISM Research Conference, February 2022, NISM-Mumbai.
• Impact of COVID-19 on Shariah versus non-Shariah compliant stocks: A comparative study using wavelet analysis, 8th PAN IIM World Management Conference, December 2021, IIM Kozhikode.
• Comparing Energy Contagion of the Indian Industries across Global Financial Crisis and  COVID 19,  Second SEBI-NISM Research Conference, February 2021, NISM-Mumbai.
• Firm and industry specific factors driving the capital structure decisions: Evidence from India, GIM Conference on Applied Economics and Finance, December, 2019, GIM Goa.
• The inter-temporal causal nexus between Indian agricultural commodity futures and spot prices: a wavelet analysis, 55^th Annual Conference of TIES, January 2019, NISM Mumbai.
• Price discovery role of Indian commodity futures market revisited: A wavelet analysis, 52^nd Annual Conference of TIES, January 2016, IIM-Kozhikode.
• Factors affecting financial inclusion in rural areas: an empirical analysis, 4^th Doctoral Colloquium, IIM-Ahmedabad, January, 2010.
• Rural Populace’s Perception on Financial Inclusion, International Conference on Public Policy and Management, IIM-Bangalore, August, 2010.
• Financial Inclusion- Initiatives and Outreach, International Conference on Financial Inclusion, Great Lakes, Chennai, August, 2010.

• Delivered two sessions on Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis to Deputy and Assistant Directors of Panchayats of Kerala Government at IBS Hyderabad on December 13^th, 2019.
• Delivered two sessions on Capital Budgeting to Block Panchayat Secretaries of Kerala Government at IBS Hyderabad on October 25^th, 2019.
• Delivered two sessions each on Economic Value Added and Incremental Analysis to Executives of ONGC Ltd. at IBS Hyderabad on February 14 to 15^th, 2019.
• Delivered two sessions on Project Appraisal in the 8^th MDP on MSME Banking for bank managers at IBS-Hyderabad on 8 to 10^th February, 2017.
• Delivered four sessions on Financial Statement Analysis in the 7^th MDP on MSME Banking for bank managers at IBS-Hyderabad on 11to13^th January, 2016.

• Curriculum Building for Data Science and Business Analytics with application of SAS, IBS Hyderabad by SAS corporate team, February 2019.
• Commodity Derivatives and Risk Management, IIT, Kharagpur, March 2015.
• Commodity Markets and Futures Trading, Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, January 2014.
• 2^nd Summer School on Essential Econometrics for Research in Finance, National Institute of Securities Markets, April 2011.