ATLANTA–Finance Professor Vikas Agarwal and Computer Information Systems Professor Veda C. Storey of Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business have been named Distinguished University Professors in recognition of their sustained and outstanding records in scholarship and instruction.
Agarwal, the inaugural holder of the Bank of America Distinguished Chair of Finance, has conducted extensive research on issues related to institutional investors including exchange-traded funds, hedge funds, and mutual funds. His research addresses topics such as risk-return characteristics of institutional investors, compensation contracts of portfolio managers, the impact of portfolio disclosure on asset prices and real investment activities of corporations, liquidity transformation in asset management, policy uncertainty and households’ stock market participation, and valuation of private securities by mutual funds. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from London Business School.
Storey, Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems, has significantly impacted theory and practice in areas including database design and ontologies, business intelligence and analytics, conceptual modeling, and design science research. A 2020 analysis by Stanford University’s Meta-Research Innovation Center placed Storey among the world’s most cited scholars in her domain. She received the 2021 INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award for Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to the Information Systems Discipline and has received multiple best paper awards. Storey holds a doctorate from the University of British Columbia.
“The appointments of Vikas Agarwal and Veda Storey as Distinguished University Professors are richly deserved,” said Richard Phillips, dean of the Robinson College. “We are exceptionally proud of their outstanding records of excellence in the classroom, the impact they have made in their scholarly work, and their significant contributions to advancing their academic departments, Robinson, Georgia State, and their academic disciplines.”
Appointment as a Distinguished University Professor is a five-year designation held by no more than five percent of Georgia State tenured faculty at any time.
