About me

Welcome! I am an associate professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. I research and teach financial technology, crypto, and corporate finance. I also run the UT Blockchain Initiative on campus, and the Fintech Research Lab. Recently, I was a member of the State of Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters (2021), and on academic leave as the chief economist of the Coinbase Institute (2022-2023).

I earned my MBA and PhD in Finance at UCLA-Anderson, and my BS/MS in Electrical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. My academic work has been published in top finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science.