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
Tanurima Dutta
Tanurima Dutta is currently a first year Ph.D. student in Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she was a part of a management graduate program at the University of Nevada, Reno where she earned her Master of Business Administration. As a shared first author, her work has been published in Frontiers in Psychology (IF- 4.232). In addition, she has presented her manuscripts for the Entrepreneurship and Social Issues in Management Division at the Academy of Management Conference (Annual Meeting 2022, 2021). Her research interests are microfoundations of entrepreneurship and strategy and CSR.
Nikisha Alcindor
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.
Anthony D. Meyers
Anthony D. Meyers is a Ph.D. student in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. He specializes in organizational behavior, and his research interests include race, positionality, and power. He has a Master of Science Degree in Organizational Change Management and a post-master Certificate in Leadership and Change from The New School. In addition, he has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Child Development, and a minor degree in Africana Studies from Tufts University.
He has professional experience in grants and program management, consulting, facilitation, and organizational change. He recently served as a senior program officer for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs He has served as an arts administrator and led program design, strategic planning, and fund development projects, working with nonprofit cultural organizations and governmental agencies across the New York tri-state area. In addition, he has led national workshops on race, power, and organizational change. Anthony is a public speaker and organizational advisor, and advises civic and cultural leaders on organization development and community transformation.
Conferences
Meyers, A.D., Neal, C.E., Fong, K (August 2022). “Integrative OAD: De-neutralizing the Organizational Assessment Canon to Advance Humanistic Change.” Managing for Social Justice: Harnessing Management Theory and Practice for Collective Good, PDW at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Virtual).
Chao (Mavis) Tang
Mavis Tang is a Ph.D. student in the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Their research explores activism-related topics in organizations, with particular interest in stigma and social movements. Prior to joining Baruch College, Mavis earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurial Management from Texas Christian University. They have presented their work at several academic conferences, including the Southern Management Association Conference and the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
Onyeka Obasi
Yiqin Chen
Yiqin Chen is a PhD student in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at the Zicklin School of Business. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Economics, and Psychology from Oberlin College. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Yiqin worked as a financial analyst in New York for three years. Her research interests include capital structure, corporate governance, FinTech, and REITs.
Contact: yiqin.chen@baruch.cuny.edu
Chang-Shu (Rory) Chung
Chang-Shu “Rory” Chung is a Ph.D. student in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. His research interests are in option pricing, econometrics, and high-frequency trading. For the part on option pricing, he is developing the option pricing models based on stochastic volatility models with different types of jumps. Furthermore, he attempts to explore the economic implications of the estimated parameters. For econometrics, when estimating model parameters, he is developing a new method of estimation with a particle filtering algorithm, called “Dynamic Joint Estimation”, allowing him to estimate parameters much more accurately and thus obtain significant economic implications. Recently, he is also exploring credit risk models and high-dimensional issues in the finance and economics area. Before joining Zicklin, he was a research assistant at the National Tsing Hua University’s Institute of Statistics and Academia Sinica of Taiwan. He also worked at the derivatives department of a securities company based in Taipei and developed market-making strategies by using machine learning techniques to predict the optimal limit order submission position. Chang-Shu receives a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from the National Chengchi University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the National Cheng Kung University.
Contact: changshu.chung@baruch.cuny.edu
Mingyuan Kong is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. He holds a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the doctoral program in Finance, he was working at Hanlon Financial Systems Center. His current research interests include asset pricing and behavioral finance. He has taught Principles of Finance and Business Statistics at the undergraduate level.
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.
Preston Wong
Preston Wong is a PhD student in the William Newman Department of Real Estate and the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance within the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. His current research interests include real estate, asset pricing, climate finance, and industrial organization. He is also interested in the application of machine learning and spatial econometrics techniques to those areas. Originally from Hawaii, Preston completed his Master of Science in Financial Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with majors in Organismal and Population Ecology, Economics, and Medical Mathematics at Creighton University in Nebraska.
Yang Xu
Yang Xu is a doctoral candidate in the Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her research focuses on asset pricing, investment, risk management, as well as the connections with corporate finance. Prior to joining the doctoral program in Finance, she worked at a hedge fund in New York for three years. Yang receives a MS in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Economics in Financial Engineering from Renmin University of China.
Contact: yang.xu@baruch.cuny.edu
Yunqing Yang
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.
Wing Shan Yip
Wing Shan Yip is a Ph.D. student in Finance at Baruch College, with a focus on real estate finance and urban economics. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Economics from Tsinghua University and an M.S. in Real Estate Development from Columbia University. Her research explores the intersection of cultural background and housing investment decisions. Wing Shan has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Environmental Management and has contributed to academic volumes published by MIT Press.
Yanru (Anne) Chang
Yanru (Anne) Chang is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Her research explores information disclosures and asset pricing, particularly focusing on how generative AI shapes the financial market.
Contact: yanru.chang@baruch.cuny.edu
Yue (Olivia) Chen
Yue (Olivia) Chen is a doctoral student in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Her research interest lies in voluntary disclosure, both earnings and non-earnings information, big data, and capital market. Her current research is about voluntary disclosure (conference calls) and capital market. Before joining the Ph.D. program, she was part of the accounting master program at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
Contact: yue.chen@baruch.cuny.edu
Hunter NG
Hunter Ng is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College Zicklin School of Business. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University with double honors degrees in Accounting and Business Analytics. He previously worked on Project Ubin, a distributed ledger clearing system by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Hunter’s current energies are focused on new technologies involving cryptocurrencies, betting markets, LLMs and their applications on accountancy, finance and economics.
Jingyi Liu
Jingyi Liu is a doctoral student in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Her research interests include voluntary disclosure, supply chain, and contract covenants. Her current research focuses on bilingual voluntary disclosure. Before joining the Ph.D. program, she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE).
Saghar Samimy
Saghar Samimy is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Prior to joining the PhD program, he was a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase. His extensive professional experience covers areas including corporate accounting and taxation, structured income products, resolution and recovery, and employee compensation. His current research interests include corporate social responsibility, financial data security, labor, financial information flow through social media, and international regulation. He holds an MBA and a BBA from the City University of New York, and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant.
Mengtian Sui
Mengtian Sui is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Her research interests revolve around corporate disclosures, machine learning, and alternative data. Before joining the Ph.D. program, Mengtian earned an MBA in Accounting from CUNY Baruch and a BFA from Parsons the New School. She also passed CPA and CFA Level III exams.
Jiayang (Cheryl) Sun
Jiayang (Cheryl) Sun is a doctoral student in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Her current research interests include taxation, capital markets, corporate governance, and behavioral accounting. Before starting her Ph.D. in 2024, she earned a Bachelor of Economics in Taxation and a Bachelor of Management in Financial Management from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China. She also spent six months as a fully funded exchange student in Finance at Montpellier Business School, France. She went on to complete two master’s degrees: a research-based Master of Economics in Taxation from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and a Master of Science in Public Policy with a focus on Public Finance and Taxation from University College London in the UK, where her dissertation was awarded distinction. Additionally, she is an ACCA affiliate.
Haozheng Wang
Haozheng (Leon) Wang is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. His research explores corporate social responsibility decisions in the context of macroeconomic forces, including economic uncertainty, regulatory policy, and political pressure. Prior to entering the doctoral program, Leon worked as a Senior Associate at Ernst & Young, where he provided assurance and advisory services to industry-leading clients. He holds double master’s degrees in Accounting and Public Policy from The George Washington University, and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant.”
Yutong (Vicky) Wang
Yutong (Vicky) Wang is a doctoral student in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business, which she joined in 2023. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has prior work experience in both the banking and tech industries. Her current research interests include voluntary disclosure, information intermediaries, and the capital markets.
Wen Xie
Wen Xie is a doctoral student in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her research interests include disclosure and regulation. Her previous professional experience consists of several years at fast-moving consumer goods, wealth management, and equity exchange, covering financial planning and strategic analysis. She has a bachelor’s degree of management in Accounting from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and is an ACCA Affiliate. She has double master’s degrees in International Management from Fudan University and Luiss Guido Carli.
Andrea Peláez Martínez
Melanie Paul Austin
Melanie’s work has been presented at academic conferences including the Association of Consumer Research Conference (ACR) and the Society of Consumer Psychology Conference (SCP). She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Baruch College, teaching undergraduate courses in business fundamentals, marketing foundations, and marketing analytics.
Publication:
Block, L., Vallen, B., & Paul Austin, M. (2022). Food waste (mis) takes: The role of (mis) perception and (mis) estimation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101327.
Joseph (Joey) Koons
Joseph “Joey” Koons is a PhD student in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. His research interests include the roles of morality and emotions in consumer well-being and human-technology interaction. Prior to joining the doctoral program, Joey worked in digital marketing in the financial services and enterprise connectivity industries. He obtained his B.S. in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing from Brigham Young University.
Linmei Huang
Linmei Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Before joining Baruch, Linmei received her MS in applied economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Her educational pursuits have equipped her with a diverse and robust skill set. She possesses a solid foundation in data mining, business data analytics, FinTech, economics, and econometrics. These competencies are the bedrock for conducting rigorous empirical analyses and drawing meaningful economic implications.
Linmei’s research expertise focuses on technology companies and their applications in finance. Within this interdisciplinary research area of information systems and finance, her studies mainly focus on technology companies, specifically entrepreneurship in the IT sector and the disruptive innovations of Financial Technology (FinTech). She investigates how technology companies can achieve better performance and long-term success from dimensions of financials (external financing), information security, and technological innovation and examines how FinTech reshapes traditional financial services. Through this research, she aims to bridge the worlds of IT startups and FinTech innovation by recognizing the pivotal role of technology and finance in shaping the future of business and contributing to the knowledge base that guides entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and financial institutions in navigating rapid technological change.
Yuxiao Lou
Yuxiao Luo is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. His research includes recommendation agent, digital nudging, and music streaming platform. Prior to joining Baruch, Yuxiao holds an MS in Statistics and Decision Making from Fordham University.
Conferences and Publications:
- Theorizing and Measuring Persistent-Normative Corporate Social Responsibility
32ND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS & SOCIETY (IABS) ANNUAL CONFERENCE, JUN 3-6, 2021
- Moral sense-making, organizational character and corporate social responsibility among Fortune Global 500
36TH EUROPEAN GROUP FOR ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES (EGOS) COLLOQUIUM, JUL 2-4, 2020
- Combining Multiple Algorithms for Portfolio Management using Combinatorial Fusion (in Proceedings of ICCI*CC’17)
IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE INFORMATICS & COGNITIVE COMPUTING, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK
Lisa Santa-Coloma
Lisa Santa-Coloma is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics. Her research interests include digital transformation and how organizations in the public sector leverage data and technology to transform. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, she worked in the banking, publishing, and market research industries building information systems and analytics platforms. She received her M.S. in Operations Research and B.S. in Statistics from the University of Florida.
Mingyan Xu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. She conducts research in online markets and specializes in using analytical models to investigate the human and technology interactions. Mingyan’s dissertation focuses on assisting the K-12 educators in raising online funds to support public classroom learning goals. This research is conducted from three perspectives: fundraisers fundraising strategies, crowdfunding platform’s recommender systems and the lead donors’ stimulus actions. Prior to joining Baruch, Mingyan received her MS degree from University of Delaware.
Publications:
- Xu, M., & Cai, Y. (2021). Who to donate to? A Recommender Model for Donation-based Crowdfunding.
- Xu, M., & Cai, Y. (2021). Attributes and Actions: A Signaling Examination on the Determinants of Crowdfunding Success.
Conferences:
- Decision Science Institute (DSI) Southeast Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 2022
- The 27th annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2021
- INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2018
Sanghyun Park
Sanghyun Park is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. His research interests include User-Generated Content (UGC), machine learning, sharing economy, and crowdfunding. He received his MS in Big Data Management from Kyung-Hee University. Prior to joining the PhD program, he worked in a national research institute in Korea.
Setareh Seraj
Setareh Seraj is a doctoral student in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her research interests include examining user-generated content in social media and online digital platforms using text-mining and machine learning techniques. Setareh holds an MS in business administration and a BS in Civil Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran-Polytechnique) in Tehran, Iran.
Yi Zhuang
Yi Zhuang is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations and Decision Analytics at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. Her research interest lies in Matching Theory and Revenue Management. She investigates two-sided matching and search market with search friction for heterogeneous agents and Network Revenue Management problem under general discrete customer choice model. Her methodological approach combines both optimization theory and modeling to investigate the dynamic choice exhibits in agents behavior.
Yi holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics from University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science in Financial Mathematics from North Carolina State University. She teaches undergraduate courses in Predictive and Decision Analytics.
Omer Berk Olmez
Omer Berk Olmez is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations and Decision Analytics at the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, CUNY. His research expertise is in service operations management, particularly multi-channel service operations where the same provider can offer both in-person and virtual services.
Omer’s current research portfolio includes three interconnected projects: (1) analyzing the implications of pooling servers across physical and virtual channels, (2) studying customer preferences between in-person and virtual service delivery, and (3) investigating the impact of payment parity policies on telehealth adoption and broader healthcare utilization patterns.
Omer earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Ozyegin University in Turkey. During this time, he published an article in the European Journal of Operational Research titled “A Variable Neighborhood Search Based Matheuristic for a Waste Cooking Oil Collection Network Design Problem”. He received the Mills Tannenbaum Research Excellence Award in 2023. Beyond his research, Omer teaches an undergraduate course in prediction analysis and decision modeling.
Ceren Gultekin
Ceren Gultekin is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations and Decision Analytics at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. Her research program focuses on how consumer behavior impacts operational decision-making in retail. In her dissertation, she investigates whether widely used retail strategies to stimulate demand remain effective in the presence of returns. Her most recent project focuses on selective inventory disclosure, which retailers use to mitigate consumers’ discount-seeking behavior. She finds permanent disclosure may outperform selective disclosure when product returns are considered.
Ceren holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Ozyegin University in Turkey. Her publication, “A Variable Neighborhood Search-Based Matheuristic for a Waste Cooking Oil Collection Network Design Problem,” appeared in the European Journal of Operational Research. She teaches service operations management at Zicklin.