GORDON H. DASH, Professor of Finance, Decision Sciences and
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience; http://www.GHDash.net v. 01-July-2017
Professor Dash joined the faculty of the College of Business Administration (CBA) at The University of Rhode Island, USA (URI) in 1974. Prior to his arrival at URI he completed his undergraduate degree in business administration at Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA (1968). He earned a masters- and dual program PhD-degree in Finance and Operational Research from the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO (1978).
Dr. Dash has authored over 90 manuscripts in his role as a professor of finance and computational neuroscience. Professor Dash’s current research agenda focuses on the neuroeconomics of SMART cities, translational science, and neurobehavioral animal science. Most recently, his neurobehavioral animal models of prosocial residential behavior were on display at the URI Brain Fair (The Ryan Institute for Neuroscience) and the Mind-Brain Day Fair (Brown University). Current interdisciplinary research extends studies on rodent neurobehavioral responses to form a prosocial multi-objective optimization model for public housing assignment. Past publications on algorithmic optimal bank structures appear in several academic journals including the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis; the Journal of Banking and Finance and The Financial Review. A multi-objective extension to the Sharpe model for efficient diversification with hedging appears in the International Transactions on Operational Research. His research in the broader area of quantitative financial decision-making appears in: The New England Journal of Business & Economics; the Journal of Portfolio Management; the Journal of Applied Operational Research; Operations Research: An International Journal; the African Finance Journal; the Handbook of Financial Engineering; and, The Journal of Computing and e-Systems.
Past editorial appointments include: The Northeast Journal of Business & Economics; The International Review of Financial Analysis; and, The Financial Review. Professor Dash has published three books: Recent Advances in Computational Finance; Applied Risk Management: the Fundamentals of Derivatives, Neuroeconomics and Automated Trading; and, Operations Research Software, Volume I and II. Globally, Professor Dash has hosted classes or made professional appearances in Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, South Korea, Tunisia, Turkey, and Thailand.
At URI-CBA, Professor Dash has enjoyed primary teaching responsibility for courses titled: Derivatives and Risk Management; Managerial Economics; RAM Fund-Hedge Fund Management; Mutual Fund Management; Global Currency Trading and Valuation; and, Bank Financial Management. From 1991-2009, Dr. Dash enjoyed a concurrent appointment as Visiting Professor of Finance at ISIDA, the University of Palermo’s (Sicily) internationally hosted Master of Management program.
Professor Dash’s is the founder and faculty advisor to the student-directed Quantitative Finance and Neuroeconomics Club (QFiN). Other notable service activities include serving on the portfolio investment committees of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Saint Elizabeth Community (RI). Professionally, he remains an active member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE); Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP); Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA); The European Operational Research Society; Women in Quantitative Finance; and, The Society of Quantitative Analysts (SQA). Professor Dash is a member in good standing of several academic honor societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Delta Pi Epsilon and Delta Sigma Pi.