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Yaniv Konchitchki

Associate Professor | Distinguished Teaching Fellow | Founder and Faculty Director of Berkeley Fintech Program, Haas School of Business | U.S. Federal Reserve Professional Macro Forecaster

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Professor Yaniv Konchitchki, a full-time tenured associate professor at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, is an award-winning expert in strategic investing and interconnected finance- the interdisciplinary links between corporate financial reporting & analysis, Fintech & AI, security prices, and the macroeconomy. He is also an entrepreneur, an active investor & trader, a CPA, a Board Member for various entities, a PhD & MSc alumnus from Stanford University, an advisor/mentor to founders and executives, and a contributor to country-level national forums (such as U.S. Cyber Command). He also holds several awards and honors with international recognition (e.g.  Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award; Best Paper Award; World’s Top 40 Under 40; Bakar, Hellman, & Schwabacher Fellow for Distinguished Research Excellence).

More specifically, Professor Konchitchki specializes in forecasting firm, industry, and macroeconomic changes and how to respond to them (e.g., security prices; industry trends; macroeconomic figures). For that, he leverages artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Over more than two decades at Stanford and Berkeley, he has been developing, programming, & implementing quantitative investment algorithms, mainly used by hedge funds and other entities. He is an expert in monetary economics, capital markets, Fintech, AI/alternative data investing, macroeconomic forecasting, as well as financial reporting, & analysis. In addition, he is Professional Macro Forecaster for the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Founder/Faculty Director of Berkeley Fintech and Center for Financial Reporting & Management, an Advisor to UC Berkeley Accelerator & Incubator, among others.

Awards & Honors
  • Best Paper Award, awarded by the American Accounting Association for impactful research. “This annual award honors the paper that best reflects the tradition of academic scholarship in financial accounting and explores research that is relevant to problems facing the accounting profession and standard-setters.”
  • World’S 40 Under 40. International recognition, Featured in Fortune, Haas, Poets & Quants
  • Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award. “Award given…to published research work which has withstood a rigorous process of screening and scrutiny based on certain criteria, such as uniqueness and potential magnitude of contribution to accounting education, practice and/or future accounting research, breadth of potential interest, originality and innovative content, clarity and organization of exposition and soundness and appropriateness of methodology.”
  • Hellman Fellow Fund Award for Distinguished Excellence in Research. Selected across UC Berkeley as a “Most Promising Assistant Professor.”
  • Barbara and Gerson Bakar Faculty Fellow. “A most positive signal for the years to come, the fellowship honors Haas faculty members with a record of accomplishment and a very bright future.”
  • Schwabacher Fellow. “The Executive Committee voted this honor on the basis of ‘outstanding research, exceptional departmental service, unusual scholarly growth, or some combination thereof.”
  • (more than once) Earl F. Cheit Award for Teaching Excellence and Distinguished Teaching Fellowships (for teaching core MBA courses at Haas MBA programs). “Highest teaching award bestowed annually upon instructors at Berkeley Haas.”
  • Club Six Member, for Teaching Excellence in Core MBA (each teaching year at Haas).
  • Stanford GSB’s Jaedike Merit Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in the PHD Program
  • Stanford University's Doctoral Fellowships
  • USC’S Evan Thompson Teaching & Learning Innovation Award (for core MBA Teaching Excellence)