Bidisha Chakrabarty

Associate Dean and Edward Jones Professor of Finance at Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business – Saint Louis University

Dr. Bidisha Chakrabarty is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs at the Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University. Prior to that, she was the Chair of the Finance Department. She also hold the Edward Jones Endowed Chair Professorship at Saint Louis University.

Dr. Chakrabarty, who is recognized for her teaching and research, has received several awards and recognitions including the Faculty Research Best Paper Annual Award given by the Chaifetz School of Business, the Responsible Research in Management Award by the Academy of Management Fellows, and the Fr. Thomas Knapp Distinguished Faculty Award. She has been awarded the NYU-NSE Financial Markets Research Grant, and her work has been recognized by the Plato Partnership, Spanish Finance Association, NFA, and the New Zealand Superannuation Award.

Dr. Chakrabarty’s research focus is computational finance and fintech, specifically algorithmic trading, platform and market design, and spatial finance. She has published over thirty research articles across top cross-disciplinary fields in Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Management. Her work has been supported with grants from multiple international stock exchanges and financial regulators across the world, and featured in various media outlets, such as the CFO Magazine and the Harvard Law Forum.

In the most recent rankings by SSRN, she is included in the top 10% of all-time highest-downloaded authors in the world.

Professor Tarun Chordia received his PhD in finance from the Anderson School, UCLA, in 1993. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Citibank as a relationship and credit manager in the Financial Institutions Group. He has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 2000. He joined the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 2000.

Professor Chordia’s research is grounded in both theory and empirical methods and spans a diverse area of financial economics. Professor Chordia has published extensively in the top finance journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Management Science. He has received numerous awards for his research on empirical asset pricing and market microstructure. He has been the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Markets from 2013 to 2022 and a past associate editor of Review of Financial Studies. He is on the program committee for numerous conferences and is a referee for numerous journals.