Tejaswini Medi

Researcher

University of Mannheim

B6, 28–29, Room C 001, 68159, Mannheim

Email: tejaswini.medimail-uni-mannheim.de

Webpage: tejaswinimedi.github.io

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Research Interests

Robustness and Fairness of Deep Learning Models
Image and 3D Generation
Representation Learning

Publications

Tejaswini Medi, Julia Grabinski, Margret Keuper, “Towards Class-wise Robustness Analysis” accepted at OOD Generalization in Computer Vision Workshop, ICCV 2023.Tejaswini Medi, Jawad Tayyub, Muhammad Sarmad, Frank Lindseth, Margret Keuper, “FullFormer: Generating Shapes Inside Shapes”, accepted at DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, Heidelberg, 2023. Tejaswini Medi, Steffen Jung, Margret Keuper, " FAIR-TAT: Improving Model Fairness Using Targeted Adversarial Training”, accepted at Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

Generative Computer Vision Models ( FSS 2024, FSS 2025)
Machine Learning ( HWS 2024)
Seminar Organization (AI Safety & Robustness) ( FSS 2025)
Seminar Supervision ( HWS 2024 – FSS 2025)

Community Participation

Active Reviewer for TPAMI, CVPR and NeurIPS Conferences

Prof. Dr. Stefan Ruenzi

Chair of International Finance

office.ruenziuni-mannheim.de

Credit: Private

Main fields of research

Asset Management
Mutual Funds
Hedge Funds
Empirical Asset Pricing
Advertising & Capital Markets
Media & Capital Markets
Ethical Investing
Gender and Finance
Textual Analysis
Diversity & Team Management
Liquidity
Entrepreneurship
Experimental Finance
Financial Analysts

Curriculum vitae

2000	Diploma (M.Sc.) in Economics, University of Konstanz
2005	Dr. rer. pol. (Ph.D. in Business), University of Cologne
2007–2009	Assistant Professor (Visiting), University of Texas at Austin
Since 2009	Professor of Business Administration, especially International Finance, University of Mannheim

Selected memberships

American Finance Association (AFA)
European Finance Association (EFA)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Finanzwirtschaft (DGF)

Prizes, awards, honors

BSI Gamma Foundation Grant
Global Finance Conference Best Paper Award
Swisscanto Award
DGF Outstanding Paper Award
Academy of Management Emerald Award
Rothschild Caesarea Center Best Conference Paper Award
BAI Best Paper Award
Engelbert Dockner Memorial Prize, WU Gutmann
Center Symposium, Vienna Best Paper Award

Selected publications

Agarwal, V., Ruenzi, S. and Weigert, F. (2024). Unobserved performance of hedge funds. The Journal of Finance, 79, 3203-3259.
Meier, K., Niessen-Ruenzi, A. and Ruenzi, S. (2024). The impact of role models on women's self-selection in competitive environments. The Quarterly Journal of Finance : QJF (forthcoming).
Agarwal, V., Ruenzi, S. and Weigert, F. (2023). Unobserved performance of hedge funds. SSRN Working Paper Series. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Hillert, A., Niessen-Ruenzi, A. and Ruenzi, S. (2023). Mutual fund shareholder letters: Flows, performance, and managerial behavior. Management Science (forthcoming).
Hillert, A., Niessen-Ruenzi, A. and Ruenzi, S. (2023). Mutual fund shareholder letters: flows, performance, and managerial behavior. SAFE Working Paper, 380. Frankfurt am Main: University of Frankfurt.
Hoechle, D., Ruenzi, S., Schaub, N. and Schmid, M. (2022). Financial advice and retirement savings. SSRN Working Paper Series. Amsterdam: Elsevier.