Awards & Grants

Recognition for research and teaching

Including the Wharton School Jacobs Levy Outstanding Research Paper Prize and seven competitive SSHRC research grants totaling more than C$500,000.

Research Grants

Seven competitive federal grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), totaling more than C$500,000.

Corporate Failures and Redeployment of Entrepreneurial Human Capital
SSHRC Insight Grant · Principal Investigator
2026$79,699
Financial Intermediaries and the Resolution of Corporate Financial Distress
SSHRC Insight Grant · Co-Investigator
2026$96,484
Do Hedge Funds Exploit Material Non-Public Information?
SSHRC Insight Development Grant · Co-Investigator
2022$67,203
Market Power in Loan Pricing
SSHRC Insight Development Grant · Principal Investigator
2021$64,812
Redeployment of Intellectual Properties in Bankruptcy
SSHRC Insight Grant · Principal Investigator
2017$70,070
Creditor Control Rights, CEO Personal Bankruptcy Costs, and Chapter 11 Sales
SSHRC Insight Development Grant · Principal Investigator
2012$67,600
Hedge Funds and the Changing Nature of Chapter 11
SSHRC Research Grant · Co-Investigator
2010$71,500
CA Queen’s Centre for Corporate Governance Major Research Grant
Principal Investigator
2010
Fund for Scholarly Research and Creative Work, Queen’s University
2007–2011

S&P Global Best Paper Award
Monash Winter Conference
2024
Best Conference Paper Award
Southern Finance Association Annual Meetings, Key West
2022
Jacobs Levy Outstanding Research Paper Prize
The Wharton School
2020
Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance (Semi-Finalist)
Financial Management Association
2018, 2020
Best Conference Paper Award
China International Conference in Finance
2015
Best Conference Paper Award
NTU International Conference on Finance
2012
Best Conference Paper Award
European Financial Management Association Annual Meeting, Barcelona
2012

Professor of the Year Award
Master of Finance Beijing Program, Smith School of Business
2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
Research Excellence Award
Smith School of Business
2021
Nominated, Graduate Supervision Award
Queen’s University
2023
Dean’s Recognition for Teaching Excellence
HKUST Business School (four courses)
2015–2016
New Researcher Achievement Award
Smith School of Business
2012