Vikas Agarwal is H. Talmage Dobbs, Jr. Chair and Professor of Finance at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Vikas received his Ph.D. in finance from the London Business School. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Research, University of Cologne, Germany. He also holds a Research Associate position at EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Center, France. He currently serves as a Director on the board of the Southeastern Hedge Fund Association and on the academic advisory council of Decatur Capital Management.

His broad areas of research interest include investments and asset pricing. He has done extensive research on various issues related to institutional investors including hedge funds and mutual funds. His research on hedge funds includes characterization of their risks, performance evaluation, compensation, data biases, portfolio disclosure, liquidity transformation, and investor behavior. His research on mutual funds focuses on issues such as window dressing, portfolio disclosure, managerial multitasking, and liquidity management. His research has been published both in academic and practitioner journals including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of Empirical Finance, Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Investment Management, Journal of Alternative Investments, Foundations and Trends in Finance, and Journal of Asset Management. His research has been cited and discussed in the financial press and magazines including Euromoney, Financial Times, Forbes, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.