Current Student Profiles

Our students come from a variety of backgrounds within and outside the Business industry and choose Baruch for its convenient course offerings, close-knit learning cohorts and overall value and affordability. They enhance our learning environment by drawing from their professional experiences in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Management, Marketing and research fields.

Our placements include academic and non-academic institutions:

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in Chengdu, China
The University of New Mexico
Marymount Manhattan College
IE University in Madrid, Spain
University of Grenoble, France
NYU-Shanghai
University of New Hampshire
Pace University
Carnegie Mellon
Oxford University, UK
U Mass Dartmouth
Long Island University (Post)
Rutgers Camden
Babson College

Management

Michael L. Ekema-Agbaw is a doctoral candidate in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. He specializes in organizational behavior and his research interests include: Bias in selection, promotion, firing, and performance evaluation; individual differences and the implications for job performance and academic achievement. In 2016, his masters thesis was published in the Journal of Intervention & Prevention in the Community. He has an MS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech and BAs in Psychology and History from Cornell University.

Publication(s): Ekema-Agbaw, M. L., McCutchen, J. A., & Geller, E. S. (2016). Intervening to promote statements of gratitude: Informative incongruity between intention and behavior. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 44(3), 144-154.

Jeffrey Augugliaro is a first year PhD student in the Narendra P. Loomba Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business. He spent 15 years as an entrepreneur launching companies in many different industries. He received a BA in sociology and philosophy from Stony Brook University and obtained his Master’s from Columbia University in public policy.

Jing Liu is a doctoral candidate in the Narendra P. Loomba Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, from which she also received her MBA. She also holds a MS in Business Administration from Hanyang University in South Korea. Liu, whose dissertation proposal Superstitious Heuristics in Strategic Decision-making won the CUNY Graduate Center Dissertation Fellowship for the 2018-19 academic year, also had the honor of presenting her research at numerous annual conferences. Her research focuses on strategy with a concentration on how firms’ strategic decision making is affected by managerial and organizational factors.

Junghoon “Martino” Park is a doctoral student in the Zicklin School of Business’ Narendra P. Loomba Department of Management. He received an MS in International Business and a BS in International Business and Trade from Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Park’s areas of interest include corporate sustainability strategies and environmental management. Specifically, he is interested in shedding light on the conditions under which a firm’s environmental partnership portfolio is positively associated with firm performance in terms of environmental and financial performance.

Finance

Elsa Allman

Elsa Allman is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Here research interests include Financial Intermediation, Financial Stability and Financial Regulation. Her current research focuses on the rise of shadow banks, its determinants, and impacts on financial stability. She received a Finance master’s degree from University Paris Dauphine and a master’s in Public Policy and Development from the Paris School of Economics. Prior to joining the PhD program, she worked 5 years at the French Central Bank in the Banking International Affairs division of the Prudential Supervisory Authority, negotiating and designing market risk regulation.

Arka Prava Bandyopadhayay

is a PhD student in The William Newman Department of Real Estate at Baruch College, CUNY. He received a B.Math in Pure Mathematics from Indian Statistical Institute. He came to USA in 2010 and worked on Quantum Computation/Information as his research thesis (published as a book) in Louisiana State University where he received an MS in Computer Science. He is a PhD (ABD) in Applied Mathematics from the Courant Institute of mathematical Sciences, NYU and has an MS in Mathematical Finance from the same. Arka has 6 years of industry experience in Derivative Pricing & Risk Management, specifically in credit/prepayment/market/liquidity risk of mortgages. He hopes to enhance his career in Real Estate Finance building on his professional work in Mortgages and Structured Products. His joint work on Deep Learning, with his Advisor, Dr. Yildiray Yildirim, has been presented at Bloomberg and has been selected for presentation in AFA 2020 in San Diego. He is working on the cutting edge models in Deep Learning and Causality (Big Data and Machine Learning), Perpetual Options on Housing Indices (Option Pricing on Mean-Reverting Underlying), Delay in Resolution of Commercial Mortgages (Survival Model), Investment Angle and Theory favoring Bias in Dynamic Adjustment in Leverage (Corporate Finance & Panel Econometrics), Local P&L Models for Currency Options (Attribution), etc.

Chih-Ching (Tim) Hung is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research interests include empirical asset pricing, behavioral finance, and household finance. Before joining the program Hung was a research assistant at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He received his BBA in International Business from the National Taiwan University and his MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zhaojun Huang is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. She specializes in empirical corporate finance and causality analysis. Her research interests include firm investment and financing strategy, firm R&D, innovation, litigation and uncertainty. Her dissertation focuses on firms’ innovation strategies under stressful situations. Huang earned her MBA at Baruch and BA in Economics from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in China.

Yi Liu is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research interests include the study and research of asset pricing. Before enrolling in the PhD program, Liu studied math as an undergraduate at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and finance as a graduate student at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE). After passing the CFA level 2 exam he gained experience in the quantitative trading group of Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Cooperation.

Yu Shan is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research primarily focuses on banking, financial intermediations, corporate finance and governance. He holds a MSc in Financial Engineering from the University of Southern California and a BA in Economics with a specialization in International Finance from the Central University of Finance and Economics in China. Shan has taught Principles of Finance at the undergraduate level and serves as an online instructor at Zicklin’s Online Learning and Evaluation Initiative. He is a member of the Western Finance Association (WFA), the American Finance Association (AFA), and the Financial Management Association International (FMA).

Joonsung “Francis” Won is a PhD student in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at the Zicklin School of Business and is originally from Seoul, South Korea. Before joining Zicklin, he attended Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, for his undergraduate and master’s degrees in business administration with concentration in finance. His current research interests are theoretical developments and the corresponding empirical tests on topics related to capital structure, default probability, internal capital market of corporations, and corporate governance.

Yunqing Yang is a doctoral student in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. After graduating from Sichuan University with a degree in finance, Yunqing attended Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. She passed CFA level III and her current research interest is in asset pricing.

Muhammed Yonac is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research interests include asset pricing and macro-finance. Before entering the doctoral program in Finance, he was working as an assistant professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at a private university in Turkey. He has a BS and MS in Physics from Bilkent University, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester.

Yang Xu is a PhD student in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her research interests include investment, risk and asset pricing. Prior to joining the doctoral program in Finance, she worked at a hedge fund in New York for three years. Yang holds an MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Economics in Financial Engineering from Renmin University of China.

Accounting

Daeun (Philip) Lee

Philip Daeun Lee is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. He received a BS in Biology at Duke University and an MS in Accountancy from Zicklin. His research interests include the regulation of financial institutions, the media’s role of information dissemination on financial reporting, as well as corporate disclosure. Lee also published a peer-reviewed article in Nature in 2011.

Publication:Wei Wang, Jinyoung Yang Barnaby, Yasuomi Tada, Hairi Li, Mahmut Tör, Daniela Caldelari, Dae-un Lee, Xiang-Dong Fu & Xinnian Dong (2011). Timing of plant immune responses by a central circadian regulator. Nature, 470(7332), 110-114. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09766

Heyun Li is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her research interests include interdisciplinary researches and the scope of her research premises on the legalities incorporated in accounting disclosures. Li obtained her Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland.

Ying Liang is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business who has published scholarly work in publications such as The Accounting Review is currently conducting research on earnings management, corporate disclosure, and compensation. She holds an MSc in Economics (Research) from the London School of Economics, and a BSc from Renmin University of China.

Publication:

Ying Liang, Iván Marinovic, and Felipe Varas (2018) The Credibility of Financial Reporting: A Reputation-Based Approach. The Accounting Review: January 2018, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 317-333. http://www.aaajournals.org/doi/abs/10.2308/accr-51764?code=aaan-site

Xintian Lin is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research interests include corporate governance, financial reporting and information dissemination in capital market and credit market. Prior to joining the program he graduated from Xiamen University with a Bachelor of Management in Accounting degree.

Saghar Samimy is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. His previous professional experience consists of several years at JPMorgan Chase, covering areas such as corporate accounting and taxation, structured income products, resolution and recovery, and employee compensation. His current research interests include regulation of financial institutions as well as market information derived from non-traditional media sources. He has a BBA from the City University of New York and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.

Amanda Sanseverino is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her current research interests include domestic and international financial regulation, taxation, and disclosure. She is particularly interested in corporate white-collar crime, including fraud and corruption. She enjoys leveraging innovative research designs and new technology. Amanda is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and has obtained BS and MS degrees in Accounting with distinction from St. John’s University. She has also obtained an MBA degree from Baruch College and an MPhil from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her teaching interests include (but are not limited to) audit, tax, and graduate courses. Prior to joining the PhD program, she spent eight years in practice at EY, Citi, Citco Fund Services, and JPMorgan Chase, specializing in private equity taxation.

Lu “Lydia” Tong is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. She graduated from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics with a Bachelor of Management in Accounting degree. Her current research interests revolve around auditing, mergers and acquisitions, valuation, financial reporting and information dissemination in capital market.

Ryan Wynne is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Prior to joining the PhD program, Ryan worked as a Banking Analyst for J.P. Morgan’s Private Bank. He received his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from Baruch College. His research interests include capital distribution disclosure and investment management disclosure

Xin Yuan is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. He joined the program in 2015 after receiving his BA in Accounting from Xiamne University. and prior to that, he graduated from Xiamen University with B.A. in Accounting. His current research interest revolves around novel phenomena relevant to corporate disclosure and financial reporting environment.

Marketing

Lennay Chapman is a PhD candidate in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at the Zicklin School of Business, where she teaches Marketing Foundations. Prior to transferring into the doctoral program, she was an MBA student at Zicklin and received the Paul Chook Fellowship for Statistics majors.

She earned her BS from the Fashion Institute of Technology, with a major in International Fashion Merchandising Management. She studied in Florence, was a fashion forecasting intern for WGSN in London, and spent a year living in Mexico as part of a cultural immersion program. In 2010, Chapman began her career as a business analyst at Ross Stores and later spent more than four years in merchandise planning at Ann Taylor and LOFT, where she planned and forecasted sales, managing inventory through strategic pricing. Lennay also contributed to the online investment publication The Motley Fool as an analyst and writer. Currently, her research interests include luxury marketing and the experiential aspects of consumption. In her free time, Lennay enjoys scuba diving and trekking – her most memorable experiences include diving with giant mantas in the Maldives and successfully summiting Mount Kilimanjaro.

Rui “Jessie” Du is a first-year PhD student in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and international Business at the Zicklin School of Business. Prior to joining Zicklin’s doctoral program she earned her master’s degree from the University of Pennslyvania. Her research focuses on social hierarchical and competition studies in a high-tech environment. Her most recent publication studies online conspicuous consumption.

Andrea Peláez Martínez is a PhD candidate in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at the Zicklin School of Business. She earned a master’s degree in marketing from the Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow (Scotland). Prior to joining Baruch, Andrea worked for several universities in Colombia (EIA, EAFIT, and the National University of Colombia) where she taught courses in strategic marketing, consumer behavior, digital marketing, and market research for undergraduate and executive programs. Her areas of expertise include qualitative research, ethical consumption and branding in business-to-business contexts.

Teodóra Szabó-Douat is a doctoral candidate in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her primary research interests include consumer ownership and sharing, sustainable consumption, consumer responsibility, and extraordinary consumer beliefs.

Prior to joining the PhD program, she worked at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) university in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She holds an MSc in economics from Corvinus University of Budapest, an MPhil from The Graduate Center, CUNY, and an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY.

Information Systems

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