Karthik Krishnan

Welcome to my professional website. I am an Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern University’s D’Amore- McKim School of Business.

My Professional Experience in Academia and Industry

• My academic research expertise in Corporate Finance, Household Finance, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Corporate Finance
• My industry experience includes co-founding and running a Fintech for over 6 years with over $20 Million deployed in workforce development financing. That experience allowed be to gain expertise in operations in fintech and workforce development, capital raise, and AI/ML implementation in a compliance heavy framework. Under my leadership, we got certified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).
• My areas of focus with newer research and practical product development is practical applications of LLMs, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), explainable AI/ML models.

If you want to learn more about my research or practitioner work, reach out to me at is k.krishnan@northeastern.edu.