He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from Duke University and also holds an MSM (MBA) with a concentration in Finance from Georgia Tech and a BS in Computer Science from Duke.Dr. Gilkeson joined the UCF faculty in the fall of 1994. During the 1996-1997 academic year, he was on leave from UCF while serving as a member of the Risk Analysis Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (U.S. Treasury Department).