Finance Concentration
Featured Research Faculty
You may want to visit our more general Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance page for an overview of the school and our entire faculty, which includes additional scholars of interest. Many of our faculty conduct research, though the most research-active among them are on the tenure track (Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors). We also benefit greatly from numerous non-tenure track faculty, some of whom conduct research and all of whom are industry experts, such that everyone contributes to our research mission through their scholarship and/or business expertise.
Featured Senior Professors
Dan Bradley
Daniel Bradley is a professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance and holds the Lykes Chair in Finance and Sustainability. He currently teaches MBA, Executive MBA, and a PhD empirical seminar course. He received the Muma College of Business Research Award in 2013, 2017-19, the USF Outstanding Research Faculty Award in 2018 and was named a Fulbright Core recipient in 2018 where he did research at ISCTE in Lisbon.
His research broadly focuses on corporate finance and investments with a particular focus on analyst behavior. He has published more than 30 academic articles in most of the journals in the field including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting and Economics and others. He has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other media outlets.
Delroy Hunter
Delroy Hunter is the Serge Bonanni Professor of International Finance in Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. He currently teaches graduate courses in investments, international finance and empirical methods.
His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. His work has won the Goldman Sachs Quant Award for Research in Investments at the Western Finance Association Conference and he has been a semi-finalist for the "best paper award" at several conferences. He has won multiple awards at the Muma College of Business and has made presentations at various national and international meetings, central bank workshops and university seminars. He has reviewed articles for journals, grant-funding agencies and conferences. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Financial Stability and Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting. Prior to joining USF in 2001, he taught at Bentley University and the University of the West Indies.
Chris Pantzalis
Chris Pantzalis is a professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance and holds a Bank of America Professorship. He teaches MBA courses and a PhD seminar on financial markets and is the recipient of the 2003 University President's Award for Faculty Excellence and the USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001. He also received the Muma College of Business Research Award in 2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2016. Pantzalis also received the Muma College of Business Creativity and Analytics Award in 2015. He joined the USF faculty in 1998
Pantzalis' research interests lie in market efficiency, international finance, corporate finance and in the area where finance overlaps with political science. His work has been published in prestigious academic journals, such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management, the Journal of International Business Studies, The Financial Analysts Journal, and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others. He is the recipient of the prestigious Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence for the article "Divergent Opinions and the Performance of Value Stocks," published in the Financial Analysts Journal.
Jung Chul Park
Jung Chul Park is a professor of finance and the Fintech Professor of Finance. He teaches theory of finance to doctoral and master’s students. He developed international finance as the first Global Citizens course for undergraduate students. Prior to joining the faculty at USF, he taught at Auburn University and Louisiana Tech University.
Professor Park's research interests are in corporate finance, investments, international finance, and the interaction of finance and politics. His work has been published in 63 articles in prestigious academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of Business Ethics, which have received more than 3,000 citations on Google Scholar.
Ninon Sutton
Ninon Sutton joined the Muma College of Business in 1998 and is a Bank of America Professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. She teaches courses in advanced corporate finance, working capital management, principles of finance and the financial markets seminar.
Sutton's research interests are corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and market efficiency. Her work has been published in several journals including the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Financial Research, the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Journal of Business, and Financial Management, among others. She has been recognized for excellence in teaching, receiving the President's Award for Faculty Excellence in 2003 and the Presidential Young Faculty Award in 2002. She also won the Research and Creative Scholarship Award twice, in 2000 and 2002.
Jared Williams
Jared Williams is an associate professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance.
His primary research interests are in behavioral finance and financial institutions, and he has published in many top journals in both business and economics including the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, the Journal of Accounting Research, and many others. Before joining USF, he taught at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business and at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
Tina Yang
Tianxia Yang is an associate professor of finance in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance in St. Petersburg, where she helps students expand their knowledge in courses such as international finance and financial modeling, focusing on financial theories and concepts.
She joined USF in 2019, coming from Villanova University where she served as faculty director in the Villanova School of Business Honors Program. Her research has been published in numerous academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Managerial Science, the American Business Law Journal, the Journal of Corporate Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She serves as the invited expert of the Shanghai M&A Financial Research Institute and is the recipient of the Financial Services Exchange Research Award, the Oxford-Yale Research Grant and the National Natural Science Foundation of China Research Grant.
Tenure-track Assistant Professors
Matthew Son
Matthew (Gunsu) Son is an assistant professor at the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Financial Technology (FinTech), focusing on applying Big Data analytics and Machine Learning in Finance. He was awarded for his exceptional teaching skills, particularly in financial technology.
Data science and technology play an integral part in his research in that he utilizes supercomputing with big data, machine learning, and network analysis in the financial field. His field of research includes market microstructure, derivative securities, fixed income, and institutional investments. His research aims to contribute to the growing body of work at the intersection of finance and technology, with a keen interest in understanding the transformative potential of machine learning algorithms on financial markets and decision-making. Matthew has actively participated in various conferences and seminars, sharing his research findings and fostering collaboration among researchers in the field.
Meng Wang
Meng Wang is an assistant professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance at the USF Muma College of Business.
His primary research interests lie in FinTech and investment, with a focus on AI and finance, machine learning, big data analysis, mutual funds, and hedge funds. Specifically, his research aims to leverage economics and AI methodologies to enhance investor understanding of the financial market.
Pinshuo Wang
Pinshuo Wang is an assistant professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. She comes from Northeastern University in Boston, where she served as an instructor teaching corporate finance to undergraduates.
Her research interests have focused on empirical research with an emphasis on entrepreneurial finance, household finance, corporate finance, education finance and industrial organization. Wang's work has been published in the Journal of Economic & Financial Studies and she has several papers forthcoming. She has presented at numerous conferences across the nation and was the recipient of the Morris A. Horowitz Award for Excellence in Economics from Northeastern University.
Xinyan Yan
Xinyan Yan is an assistant professor in the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance at the USF Muma College of Business.
Yan obtained her doctoral degree in finance from the University of Alabama and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College. Before she joined USF, she was an associate professor of finance at the University of Dayton.
Her research interest focuses on empirical corporate finance. Some of her works are at the interaction of fintech and corporate finance. She is one of the first to introduce natural language processing and machine learning to corporate finance research.