About Us

 

Board Members

 

Thomas Schneeweis
Michael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1977
Interests: Futures and options markets, international portfolio management, financial management performance, examination of managed futures and investment management.
E-mail: schneeweis@som.umass.edu

 

Hossein Kazemi
Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1985
Interests: Securities pricing, behavior of interest rates, pricing of contingent claims and the effects of economic integration on foreign exchange rates.
E-mail: kazemi@som.umass.edu

 

Nelson Lacey
Professor of Finance, Program Chair of Finance and Operations Management
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State, 1985
Interests: Valuation, corporate ethics, event studies, and sports betting markets.
E-mail: nlacey@som.umass.edu

 

Bernard J. Morzuch
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1977
Interests: Health economics, production economics, econometrics, and time series.
E-mail: morzuch@resecon.umass.edu

 

 

Management Team 

 

Director: Thomas Schneeweis

Associate Director: Hossein Kazemi

Research Director: Raj Gupta

Education Director: Nelson Lacey 

 

 

Careers of PHD Students who Received Support from CISDM

 

Raj Gupta (Ph.D., 2005) is the Research Director of CISDM.

Janie Bouges (Ph.D., 2005) is Assistant Professor of Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Saira Latif (Ph.D., 2005) is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Scott Mackey (Ph.D., 2004) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Roger Williams University. 

Vassilis Karavas (Ph.D., 2003) is Director of Quantitative Analysis & Risk Management in Lyra Capital LLC .

Sam Chung (Ph.D., 2000) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Long Island University.

Thomas Henker (Ph.D., 1999) is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focus is high frequency data.

Mark Potter (Ph.D., 1997) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Babson College. His interests include investments, mutual fund performance, and derivatives strategies.

Richard Spurgin (Ph.D., 1995) is an Associate Director of CISDM and Associate Professor of Finance at Clark University.

Aslihan Altay Salih (Ph.D., 1995) is Assistant Professor of Finance at Bilkent University, in Ankara, Turkey and focuses on time-varying volatility and equity derivatives.

Sudhir Nanda (Ph.D., 1994) is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg.