Faculty/Staff

Vikas Soni

Assistant Professor of Instruction 
vsoni@usf.edu
Campus: Sarasota-Manatee
Room: C229
Phone: 941-359-4527

Vikas Soni is an assistant professor of instruction at the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance and is also the director of the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Center and Bloomberg Lab at the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus. He teaches financial management, principles of finance, and principles of investments.

His research focuses on household finance, climate finance, political economy, real estate, insurance, banking, and fintech. He earned a PhD in finance from USF. He holds a master’s degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and communication engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. He has extensive professional experience as a data scientist.