Speaker Introduction：

Zafer Yuksel served as an Assistant Professor of Finance within the College of Business at the University of Rhode Island since 2022. Dr. Yuksel earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research journey is dedicated to the complexities of empirical asset pricing, institutional investors, and mutual funds. He has published in various prestigious academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, and Journal of Business Research. He is currently teaching undergraduate and graduate courses covering Fintech, Introduction to Financial Data Analytics,and Empirical Asset Pricing at the Ph.D.level.