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
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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. |
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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.
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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.
Nikisha Alcindor is a PhD Student in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. She is a CUNY Graduate Center Fellow and the Provost Enhancement Fellow. She specializes in Strategic Management and her research area is in mergers and acquisitions. Nikisha is interested in examining the success rates of M&A transactions by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to decision and risk analysis. She has an extensive background in corporate finance, healthcare and asset management. Prior to joining the PhD program, she spent time in practice at Apax Partners, Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Goldman Sachs and Columbia University. She is an Advisory Director to the PCA Retirement & Benefits, Inc. and a Board member of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. Nikisha holds a BA in Chemistry from Emory University and an MBA from Columbia Business School as a Leon Cooperman Scholar.
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.
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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 candidate 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 8 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, Baruch Annual Symposium and has been selected for presentation in AEA 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. |
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Conference Presentation: 2019 FMA doctoral consortium, 2020 AFA PhD poster session (expected) |
| 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. |
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.
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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.
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.
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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. |
Rui “Jessie” Du 
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.
Linmei Huang is a PhD student in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information systems & Statistics. Her research interests includes focusing on the blockchain’s application in financial areas. Prior to joining the PhD program she obtained an MA in International Business at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, an MA in Business Administration and a BA in Finance from the southwestern University of Finance and Economics. |
| Yanni Hu is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her research broadly focuses on understanding decision making in social information systems based on social technologies such as new media and virtual community, using economics games as platforms. She received her BS in Management and Finance from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, and MS in Marketing Research from Hofstra University. Before joining the program she worked on data analytics projects at Hofstra University Technology Association. |
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Publication: Luo, B.S. Kristal, C. Schweikert, D.F. Hsu. Combining Multiple Algorithms for Portfolio Management using Combinatorial Fusion. Proc. 2017 IEEE 16th Int’l Conf. on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC’17), 2017, 361-366.
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Yuxiao Lou is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her research has been published by the IEEE Conference is currently conducting research in the fields of data mining, cyber security, predictive modeling, and customer behavior. Yuxiao holds an MS in Statistics and Decision Making from Fordham University, and BA in Economics and Management from Tianjin University of Finance and Economics in China. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Baruch College.