Buvaneshwaran (Eshwar) Venugopal is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Houston. He obtained his Masters in Banking and Finance and Master of Applied Econometrics degrees from Monash University, and his undergraduate in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. He has been a member of the UCF faculty since May 2018.