Finance PhD Candidate
Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Atlanta, United States
Email: avinash.kumar.pandey@emory.edu
Research Interests: Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediaries & AI in Finance
1) Goizueta Center for AI in Finance (GCAIF) Research Award [$5000 USD]
2) Sheth Fellowship 2025 Research Award, Goizueta Business School [$1000 USD]
3) Center for AI Learning (CAIL) Summer Research Fellowship 2025 [AI Data Lab-Emory University]
4) Perplexity Artificial Intelligence & Business Fellowship 2025 [US Cohort]
5) Laney Grad. PDS 2025 Research Award [$2500 USD]
1. The Unreasonable Benchmark
with Fernando Perez Cruz (BIS, Switzerland), Amine M'Charak (University of Oxford), Zefang Liu (Georgia Tech), Vasilios Mavroudis ( King's College London) et. al
Journal of Data Centric Machine Learning Research [DMLR - 2026]
2. Ethical Judgment of Large Language Models in Financial Market Abuse Cases
with Swati Rajwal (Emory)
Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop (NeurIPS 2026)
3. Unveiling Voices: Identification of Health Concerns in Social Media Cohort
with Swati Rajwal (Emory), Zhishuo Han (Emory), Abeed Sarker( Emory)
Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop (NeurIPS 2024)
Association for Computational Linguistics [LREC-COLING 2024]
4. Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models for Social Determinants of Health
with Abeed Sarker (Emory) , Yunyu Xiao(Cornell), Swati Rajwal (Emory), Ziyuan Zhang (UC Berkley) et. al
Journal of Medical Internet Research [JMIR-2026]
I am a Finance PhD Candidate at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. My research focuses on applying machine learning methods & AI for asset pricing, financial markets, institutional regulation and monetary policy issues. Prior to Emory, I was a Research Associate at Indian School of Business. I obtained my Bachelors and Masters in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology , Banaras Hindu University.
Email: avinash.kumar.pandey@emory.edu
Office : W460 (West Wing), Goizueta Business School
Address : 1300 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA, 30322
