Dr. Kunal is working as Assistant Professor (Finance) at IIM Kashipur Faculty. Currently, he is working in emerging field of finance “Digital Finance”. His course titled ”Make In India” offered at IIM Kashipur has been appreciated by Prime Minister of India. This course “Digital Finance” is further step towards “Digital India” initiative of Government of India.

He is expert of firm financing and has defended his Ph.D. thesis in the area of finance at Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur. His Ph.D. thesis deals with empirical investigation of effect of selective intervention policy towards Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian economy at micro, meso and macro level.  For his doctoral research work, he has been awarded “Best Research Paper Award” at IIMA Doctoral Colloquium 2013 organized by Indian Institute of Management Ahmadabad, India. Beside his dissertation, he has done extensive work on private equity investment in India and financing problems with MSME, during his stay at IIT Kanpur. He has successfully completed “Master Teacher Programme” at prestigious Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

He has been awarded gold medal for securing first rank in PGDM course at International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, India. He is M. Tech. (Aerospace Engineering) from IIT Kharagpur and B E (Mechanical Engineering) from Bhagalpur College of Engineering (Autonomous college of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Bihar). He taught “International Finance” at DualeHochschule, Baden- Wurttemberg (DHBW), Ravensburg, Germany (April- May 2013), as part of Faculty Exchange program between DHBW, Germany and Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience. He has more than ten research publications in international journals and conference proceedings. Recently, he received “Best Research Publication in Journal Award” at IABE 2014 Las Vegas for the research paper titled ‘Foreign Exchange Market, Money Market and RBI Intervention’, published in European Journal of Business Research (EJBR). He is coordinator of MoU between National Stock Exchange (NSE) and IIM Kashipur.​ He is Associate member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE), USA.