About Me
Dr. Pranay Kumar
Assistant Professor in Finance · Badruka School of Management, Hyderabad
I am a finance academic with a research and teaching focus on financial markets, cryptocurrencies, financial econometrics and financial analytics. I completed my PhD in Finance from the Department of Management Studies at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, where my doctoral research examined connectedness and risk transmission in cryptocurrency markets — how shocks travel across digital assets, gold and equity markets, and what that means for portfolio construction.
My research has been published in Finance Research Letters and the Review of Behavioural Finance. My academic interests combine empirical finance with data-driven approaches to financial decision-making. I bring expertise in financial modelling and R Studio, and I am expanding my work in Python, machine learning and data science applications for finance. In the classroom I teach FinOps, Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance and Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management.
Academic Qualifications
PhD, Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad
Thesis: A study of connectedness, hedging and safe-haven properties, portfolio implications — insights from within cryptocurrencies and between cryptocurrencies and financial markets · CGPA 7.98/10 · 2021–2026
Master of Business Administration
SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai
CGPA 8.05/10 · 2015–2017
Bachelor of Commerce
Kakatiya University / Shantiniketan Degree College, Mancherial
CGPA 7.2/10 · 2011–2014
Research Interests
- Connectedness, hedging and safe-haven properties of cryptocurrencies
- Portfolio implications within and between cryptocurrencies and financial markets
- Spillovers and dependencies between cryptocurrencies, gold and stock markets
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and cryptocurrencies
- Structural Topic Modelling for financial market interconnections
Teaching Interests
- Financial Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
- FinOps
- Cryptocurrency for Investors
Technical Skills
- R and Python for financial data analysis
- Connectedness approaches (Diebold–Yilmaz, TVP-VAR)
- Wavelet quantile correlation (WQC)
- Time-series econometrics (VAR, GARCH)
- Excel financial modeling
Professional Activities
- Assistant Professor in Finance, Badruka School of Management, Hyderabad (June 2026 – present)
- Teaching Assistant, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad (2021–2025) — Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Cryptocurrency for Investors
- Co-ordinator, International Conference on Sustainable Development and Management Practices (ICSDMP 2024), IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
- UGC-JRF Fellowship (2021–2025)