• Small grant award, Telephone games with Khaled Obaid                    2023

• Distinguished Professor Award                                                                 2023

• ​​The 2nd prize winner: Economic Narratives and Market Outcomes: A Semi-supervised Topic Modeling Approach with Dat Mai.                   2021

• Small grant award, Hyper Image Options with Kihyung Kim                 2021
• Winner, Winemiller Excellence Award A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Measuring Investor Statement by Combining Machine Learning and Photos from News                                                                               2020​​​

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• Winner Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Measuring Investor Statement by Combining Machine Learning and Photos from News                                        2020​

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• Third Crowell Prize, PanAgora Asset Management, for Machine Learning Classification Methods and Portfolio Allocation: An Examination of Market Efficiency                                                        2021
• ​Finalist Crowell Prize, PanAgora Asset Management A Toolkit for Factor-Mimicking Portfolios                                                                2019​
• Third Crowell Prize, PanAgora Asset Management, for A Protocol for Factor Identification.                                                                             2017

• Outstanding paper award, Managerial Finance                                 2018
• On the Role of the Chief Risk Officer and the Risk Committee in      Insuring Financial Institutions against Litigation

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• The Mizzou’s Top Faculty Achievers AwardThe Population, Education, and Health Center Small Grants Program - FX Exposure with Kari Heimonen, Hekki Lehkonen                                                                  2016

          

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• Jack Treynor Prize Winner, Q Group  on A Protocol for Factor Identification                                                                                           2015

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• Inquire UK on ​A Protocol for Factor Identification                             2012​
• Global Market Integration: A Better Way To Measure It And Its Application                                                                                               2009

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• Inquire Europe seminar in Stockholm, Sweden on A Protocol for Factor Identification.                                                                                          2014​
• Global Market Integration: A Better Way To Measure It And Its Application                                                                                              2009​

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• Dauphine-Amundi Chair In Asset Management on A Protocol for Factor Identification.                                                                                           2013

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• ICPM Grant, University of Toronto ​ A Protocol for Factor Identification          2013

• The Office of the Vice President, Research and Graduate 2011 Studies (OVPRGS) Grant at Concordia University                                            2011​

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• KPMG Fellowship for  A Protocol for Factor Identification.             2010

• Lamfalussy Fellowship European Central Bank.            2010​Internationally Correlated Jumps with Richard Roll, Review of Asset Pricing Studies Volume 5(1), 2015, 92-111.

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• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant   2008 ​

• A Market for Lemons in Mutual Fund Management with Andrew Lynch, Michael Gibbs, and Khaled Obaid.                                           2015

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• Global Market Integration: A Better Way To Measure It And Its Application.                                                                                              2009​

                                                                                                         

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• Ziman Center for Real Estate, UCLA.                                             2010
• CIBER, UCLA                                                                            2009, 2010

• A College of Business Administration Faculty Development Award, SDSU 2009
• Entrepreneurial Management Center Grant, SDSU 2005- 2007, 2009
• University Grant Program 2004, 2006- 2008
• A College of Business Administration Faculty Development Award, SDSU 2004 and 2006
• CIBER Grant, SDSU 2006 ​