Professor Bidisha Chakrabarty is the associate dean for research and faculty affairs at the Chaifetz School of Business at Saint Louis University. Prior to that she was the chair of the finance department. She also holds the Edward Jones Endowed Chair Professorship at Saint Louis University.

Her academic leadership is based on a strong foundation of scholarship. Her research focuses on computational finance and fintech, specifically algorithmic trading, platform and market design, and spatial finance. She has published over 30 research articles across top cross-disciplinary fields in finance, accounting, operations, and management. Her work has been supported with grants from multiple international stocks exchanges and financial regulators across the world, and featured in various media outlets, such as the CFO Magazine and the Harvard Law Forum.