Aparna Gupta, associate professor of quantitative finance and director of the Lally School of Management Center for Financial Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently won the best paper award presented at the 17th Finance, Risk, and Accounting Perspectives Conference held in Helsinki, Finland.

The paper was recognized as the sole best paper of the conference within the theme of fintech and sustainability. As a winner of the award, she will now be invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the next iteration of the bi-annual conference, which is organized by the ACRN Oxford Research Network.