Academic

 PhD (Finance), Florida International University, Miami

 M.S Finance,   Florida International University, Miami

 M.S Computer Science, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

 B.S.Chemistry,  St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) Tiruchirapalli, India

Assistant Professor, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD            August  2008  -  present
Instructor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL                August  2007  -  April 2008
Instructor, Florida International University, Miami                        May 2005      -  July 2007

Publications

- “Managerial Sentiment and Project Selection”, 2008, The Journal of Emerging Financial Markets, with Edward R. Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash, Vol.1, No.1, 31 – 49

 

- “Time Value of Money: The Case of Arithmetic and Geometric Growth in Cash flows and their Applications”, with Siddharth Shankar, Gary Anderson, published in the Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Jaipur, India, August 5, 2006
 

-"Information Infrastructure for e-commerce", 1998, Arunachalam, Aravinthan, Research Thesis for the M.S. Computer Science and Information Management Program, AIT, RSPR No:CS-98-3

DISSERTATION

Three Essays on the Impact of Stakeholder Sentiment on the Financial Decision Making Process

Presentations

- Investor  Sentiment and stock trading strategy” with Edward Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash, and Siddarth Shankar, presented at Eastern Finance Association meeting, Washington D.C , April 29- May 2, 2009

- “Investor  Sentiment and stock trading strategy” with Edward Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash, and Siddarth Shankar, presented at Southwestern Finance Association meeting, Oklahoma city, February 27, 2009

- “Managerial Sentiment and value of the firm” with Edward Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash, and Siddarth Shankar, presented at Southwestern Finance Association meeting, Oklahoma city, Texas, February 27, 2009

- Discussant, "The stigma hypothesis: Strategic quote behavior in the LIBOR fixing" by Russell Poskitt, at Southwestern Finance Association meeting, Oklahoma city, Texas, February 27, 2009

 

- Discussant, "Sticky Mortgage Rates during the Decade of 1994-2004: Stronger Empirical Evidence" by V. Reddy Dondeti and Carl B. McGowan, at Southwestern Finance Association meeting, Oklahoma city, Texas, February 27, 2009
 

- "Investor Sentiment and Under-Pricing/Over-Pricing of Stocks" with Edward Lawrence and Arun J. Prakash, presented at 35th Annual Meeting of Academy of Economics and Finance on February 14, 2008 at Nashville, TN

 

- "Managerial Sentiment and Project Selection" with Edward Lawrence and Arun J. Prakash,  at 2008 Midwest Finance Association Meeting on March 1, 2008 at San Antonio, TX

 - “Impact of Discount Brokerage Fees on Online Stock Trading: A Study Of The Stock Market In Thailand”, with Dr. Krishnan Dandapani, Dr. Sushil Gupta at 18th Annual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Dallas, TX, May 4-7, 2007

- Discussant, “Rational Expectations and Expected Stock Returns” at the Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, April 20, 2007

- Participant at the Seventh Biennial Maryland Finance Symposium on Behavioral Finance at the University of Maryland, College Park, March 29-31, 2007

- “Managerial Sentiment and Project Selection”, with Siddharth Shankar presented at Indian Institute of Finance , March 23, 2007, New Delhi, India

- ‘Time Value of Money: The Case of Arithmetic and Geometric Growth in Cash flows and their Applications’, Association for Global Business Annual Conference, November 17,  2005, Miami

- “Valuation and Intra-coupon bond payments: Solution to a Paradox”, presented at the Association of Global Business Annual Meeting, Miami, Nov 17, 2005

- Initiated the creation of Asian IT Task Force, consortium of AIT Alumni Association companies to tackle the digital divide in Asia

- Arunachalam, Aravinthan & Vichit-Vadakan, Vicharat, “ Dancing to Technology: Opportunities to partner with stock exchanges”, INFINITE ASIA 2000, International Conference of IT on financial services industry, Westin Stamford, Singapore  May 23 –25, 2000

-"e-Business strategy: A perspective of Stock Exchange of Thailand ", Arvi Arunachalam, presented at School of Management, AIT, Feb 28, 2000

Working papers

- “Estimation of Systematic Risk of Multiple Cross-listed Stocks under Heterogeneous Regime”, with Gauri Ghai and Siddharth Shankar under review at the International Journal of Finance

- "Managerial sentiment and value of the firm", Edward R. Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash and Siddharth Shankar

- "Investor sentiment and stock trading strategy", working paper wtih Edward R. Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash and Siddharth Shankar

- "Investor sentiment and under/over pricing of stocks", working paper wtih Edward R. Lawrence, Arun J. Prakash submitted for review at the International Journal of Finance

- "Impact of discount brokerage fees online trading: A case study of the equity market in Thailand", with Krishnan Dandapani

aWARDS & honors

- Florida International University TA Excellence in Teaching Award, April 2006, one of eight university-wide awardees

- Best Paper - Business & Economics Category, FIU GSA Scholarly Forum, 2005

- Selected to Who's Who in US Universities, 2003
 
- Selected to Phi Mu Alpha Honors Society of the Financial Management Association 2003

- Best Paper - Business & Economics Category, FIU GSA Scholarly Forum, 2003

- Nominated for FIU Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year 2004

- Awardee, National Merit Scholarship by Government of India, 1996

- Designed, developed, and managed using WebCT/Blackboard of the hybrid undergraduate courses for Intermediate Financial Management and Financial Management since Summer 2004. Hybrid courses are innovative to FIU. The faculty and students meet every alternate class for discussion, short lecture and remedial lectures. Integrated the Wall Street Journal as part of core course curriculum

- Contributed to the AACSB requirements for the Assurance of Learning for two undergraduate courses: Financial Management and Intermediate Financial Management
Helped design, development of the web-assisted delivery of these graduate courses: Corporate Finance, Quantitative Methods in Financial Analysis, Capital Budgeting & Long term resource allocation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Analyst, The Stock Exchange of Thailand, Bangkok Jan 2000 –Dec 2002
- IT Consultant, AG Software Global, Bangkok Feb 1999 –Dec 1999
- Graduate Assistant, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok Aug 1997 –Dec 1998
- For complete professional portfolio, click here

Financial Management Association     2005 - till date
American Finance Association            2005 – till date
Eastern Finance Association              2006 – till date
CFA Institute, Affiliate member            2003   2004
IEEE Computer Society                     1998 - 2002

MEDIA REFERENCES

Quoted in WMDT TV news regarding the financial crisis, Nov 13, 2008
Quoted in The Daily Times, Nov 13, 2008
WBOC TV interviews by Don Elkins, anchor of 7pm & 11pm news at WBOC TV station in October, 2008
Video, Interviewed by Ms. Meredith Veloz of NBC 6, Miami TV station on "Living under $25,000" broadcast on July 23, 2008 (scroll the time bar till 16.45 for interview)
Alumnus spotlight, College of Business Administration, Florida International University (For PDF click here)

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
        Treasurer, FIU College of Business Administration Alumni Executive Board, Summer 2004
        Treasurer, FIU Graduate Students Association                                           Fall 2003
        AIT Alumni Association Executive Board member (Mother chapter)              2001 - 2002
        Campion Old Boys Association, Executive Board member                          1994 - 1995