Sunil Wahal is the Jack D. Furst professor of finance and director of the Center for Investment Engineering at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research focuses on short and long-horizon investment strategies; momentum, profitability and others, trading issues; trading algorithm design, trading costs and high frequency trading and delegated portfolio management and asset allocation for large institutional investors. His work covers public equities, fixed income and private equity.

Wahal has published extensively in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies and numerous other journals. He was a consultant to Dimensional Fund Advisors from 2005 to 2019 and he currently sits on a number of investment committees. He is a regular speaker at academic and practitioner conferences and has given numerous presentations to sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, DB plans, DC plans and registered investment advisors.