Michael L. Ekema-Agbaw

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

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.

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.

Mingwei Li

Mingwei Li, is a Ph.D. student in the Management Department at Baruch College. She has obtained a Master of Education Degree in Leadership and Organizational Performance at Vanderbilt University Peabody College, and then engaged in Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas for two years. Before coming to Baruch College, her academic research interests focus on leadership. She has her first academic research presentation at Academy of Management Conference as the first author at Atlanta in 2017, and also has one monograph publication at Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management in 2017. Currently her research interests focus on identity, cognition, dyadic relationship and expatriates. One main project she is working on is about the development and reduction of identity strain among Chinese migrant workers.

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. Her current research focuses on Green Finance, including green bonds’ credibility and the financial effects of climate risk and climate risk disclosure. She is also interested in issues relating to Financial Intermediation and Financial Stability, such as the rise of shadow banks and its impact on bank systemic risk. 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.

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/elsaallman

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

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.

https://sites.google.com/view/jswon/home

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.

Muhammed Yonac

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 theoretical/empirical asset pricing, applications of machine learning in finance, macro finance, and behavioral finance. Before entering the doctoral program, he was working as an assistant professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at a private university in Turkey. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester, and an MS and BS in Physics from Bilkent University

Yang Xu

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.​

Ge (Melody) Dong is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business. Her current research interests include financial regulation, disclosure and behavioral economics. She received MS in Accountancy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Heyun Li

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.

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

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. 

Lu “Lydia” Tong

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.

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.​

Huy Do is a doctoral candidate in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business. Before joining the Ph.D. program in 2019, he had extensive professional experience in corporate accounting and international financial reporting. Huy earned a B.S. in Accounting from University of the Ozarks and an MBA from The University of Tulsa. He is a licensed CPA in the state of Oklahoma. His main research interest focuses on voluntary disclosure in financial reporting.

Rui “Jessie” Du

Rui “Jessie” Du is a PhD candidate in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at the Zicklin School of Business.

Jessie’s research focuses on understanding how consumers make moral decisions under the influence of world languages and technology. Morality has long been a topic in intellectual history. Her research explores the theoretical as well as practical implications of consumer moral decision making under the context of world languages and disruptive technologies. This area of research extends a preponderance of theoretical work in morality into novel contexts and offers exciting findings to academics and practitioners.
Jessie’s research studying consumer unethical behavior towards Amazon Alexa has been invited to resubmit to Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Her work on cross-cultural consumer preventive behavior during COVID-19 is under review at Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Her study on persuasive communication has been published in European Journal of Marketing.
Jessie’s work has been frequently invited to present at academic conferences including the Association of Consumer Research Conference (ACR), the Society of Consumer Psychology Conference (SCP), the American Marketing Association Conference (AMA), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference (SPSP), the New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology Conference (Psy of Technology) and the China Marketing International Conference (CMIC).

Previously, Du received her M.S.Ed. in Intercultural Communication from University of Pennsylvania and worked in the Office Product Marketing Department at Microsoft. Du is also an active contributor at the Trope Lab.

Melanie Paul Austin

Melanie Paul Austin is a PhD student in the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Her research focuses on sensory marketing in the context of consumer behavior. Prior to joining the PhD program she obtained both an MBA in Marketing and a BS in Business Management from Stony Brook University. She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Baruch College.​

Muhammad Jawad

Muhammad Jawad is a doctoral candidate in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics Management at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Prior to joining the PhD program at Baruch, he was an assistant professor at FAST School of Management, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (Lahore, Pakistan). He also has several years of work experience in software development and business development. His PhD dissertation is about how technology is shaping online user decision-making. His research interests also include innovation bandwagons, IT Security and digital platforms. He received his Master of International Business Studies from the University of Miami (FL USA), Master of Business Administration from the International University of Japan (Niigata, Japan), and Bachelors in Computer Science from FAST-National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (Lahore, Pakistan).

Linmei Huang

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

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 user contribution behaviour in peer-to-peer financing (crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and microlending), Fin-tech platforms design, and sharing economy by online social networks. She received her BS in Management and Finance(double major) 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 Information Technology Association (HITA).

Yuxiao Lou

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. His 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.

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.

Lisa Santa-Coloma

Lisa Santa-Coloma is a PhD student in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics. Her research interests include exploring how Big Data Analytics creates business value for companies. Prior to joining the PhD 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: 

1. Xu, M., & Cai, Y. (2021). Who to donate to? A Recommender Model for Donation-based Crowdfunding.
2. Xu, M., & Cai, Y. (2021). Attributes and Actions: A Signaling Examination on the Determinants of Crowdfunding Success.

Conferences:

1. Decision Science Institute (DSI) Southeast Conference, Jacksonville, FL, 2022   
2. The 27th annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2021
3. 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.