He received his Ph.D. in Finance in 2013 from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to that he did M.S. from the Indian Statistical Institute (Calcutta, India), and B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India). His research interests include benchmarking of funds, analyzing market structure in the asset management industry, and its relation to anomalies. His forthcoming paper on “mutual fund competition” in the leading scholarly journal, Review of Financial Studies, provides a new framework for benchmarking of active fund managers. He has presented his research in leading conferences, such as the American Finance Association and the European Financial Association. More details about his research can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/nitinkumar.