Keli Xiao presented with the prestigious Fisher Long Whitcomb award for exceptional teaching

Keli Xiao, who completed his PhD in Finance at Rutgers Business School last month, was presented with the prestigious Fisher Long Whitcomb award for exceptional teaching Friday, November 8.

Professor John Longo presented the award to Xiao during a small ceremony at 100 Rock, the Rutgers Business School building on the Livingston Campus.  Longo said, “This award was created to recognize outstanding teaching by our PhD students. They do a great job of teaching for RBS and they are our future colleagues.”

Video-conferencing with more faculty from Newark, Department Chair Ivan Brick congratulated Xiao.

"I was very surprised to receive this award, especially since I left Rutgers Business School” Xiao said. Xiao was pleased to learn that the award came with a small honorarium. “Wow! And money too,” he said.

"I want to thank my professors and mentors who helped me become a better teacher. I always received good teaching evaluations, but I never expected this” said Xiao.  In the fall, Xiao began working as an assistant professor of finance at Stony Brook University, College of Business.

Xiao received his Ph.D. in Finance from Rutgers Business School in 2013 and a Master's Degree in Quantitative Finance from RBS in 2009. He received a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Queens College in the City University of New York in 2008.

His general area of research in finance is asset pricing, with a concentration on the studies of financial bubbles and empirical asset pricing. His dissertation aims to analyze the generating process of housing bubbles, and study the major factors associated to housing bubbles.