Comings & Goings

Comings & Goings

Comings

We welcome our new faculty who joined us between March 2017 and August 2017.

Prof Jeong-Bon Kim Chair Professor and Acting Head, Department of Accountancy

Professor Kim obtained his BBA and MSc Accounting degrees from Seoul National University, and his PhD degree from Temple University. Professor Kim is a prolific researcher and has published over 90 refereed journal articles. He has served as one of the two chief editors for China Journal of Accounting Research and China Accounting and Finance Review. Under his leadership from 2009 to 2015, the Department of Accountancy built up its academic reputation and was ranked as a top-50 school worldwide.

Dr Eunhee Kim Assistant Professor, Department of Accountancy

Dr Kim received her Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Korea University. She then went directly to Columbia University to join a Master's programme in operations research, where she studied William Cooper's influential work on operations research and accounting. Her interest in accounting led her to Carnegie Mellon University where she received a PhD in Accounting.

Dr Liyuan Cui Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

Dr Cui received her PhD in Economics from Cornell University. Before her doctoral study, she obtained her BS in Mathematics and Finance from Wuhan University. Her research interests include financial econometrics, asset pricing and behavioral finance.

Dr Shenje Hshieh Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

Dr Hshieh received his BA in Mathematics and Economics from the University of California, San Diego and his PhD in Finance from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests are in empirical corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate innovation.

Dr Yoojung Ahn Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Dr Ahn received her PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for Proctor & Gamble as an Associate Manager of Corporate Reputation. She has also obtained a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelors in Business Administration from Korea University.

Dr Chak-fu Lam Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Dr Lam earned his PhD in Management & Organization from the University of Michigan. His research centers on communication at work, with a particular emphasis on why employees speak up their ideas habitually and how managers respond to habitual voice. He has published work in the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Personnel Psychology, among others.

Dr Xi Li Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing

Dr Li received his PhD in Management from University of Toronto in 2017. His research interests include big data, marketing strategy and social networks. Recently, he has been using machine learning methods to analyze user-generated content in crowdfunding platforms and sharing economy websites.

Dr Gavin Feng Guanhao Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences

Dr Feng received his PhD, and previous to that an MBA, from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dr Feng's research interests include financial time series, empirical asset pricing, Bayesian econometrics, and machine learning. His work has appeared in the Journal of Risk and Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.

Dr Lyungmae Choi Assistant Professor, Department of Accountancy

Dr Choi earned her PhD degree in Accounting at Arizona State University, an MS in Management Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and BS in Industrial Engineering at Yonsei University. Her research interests are on the pricing and mispricing of accounting information and M&As.

Dr Bong-Geun Choi Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

Dr Choi received his PhD in Economics, and previous to that his MA from the University of Chicago. His Bachelor's degree are in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and Economics from Seoul National University. His research areas are asset pricing, macro-finance, and monetary economics.

Dr Ferenc Horvath Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

Dr Horvath received his PhD in Finance from Tilburg University. Before his doctoral studies, he obtained his Research Master (MPhil) in Finance degree from Tilburg University, and an MSc in Finance and BA in Finance and Accounting from Corvinus University, Budapest. His primary research interests are theoretical asset pricing, dynamic asset allocation, model uncertainty, and financial mathematics.

Dr Yunan Li Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance

Dr Li received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her doctoral study, she obtained her MA in Economics from Tsinghua University and BA in Economics from Fudan University. Her main research interests include microeconomic theory, mechanism design, auction theory, contract theory and information economics.

Dr Elsa Chan Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Dr Chan received her PhD in Management and Entrepreneurship from the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. She obtained her MSc in Occupational Psychology from the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include leadership, entrepreneurship, and race and gender biases in organizations.

Dr Shu Yu Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Dr Yu received her PhD in Strategic Management from the National University of Singapore and master's degree from the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include the internationalization of emerging market firms, strategy and structure of foreign multinationals operating in emerging economies, and corporate political strategy.

Dr Joowon Park Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing

Dr Park received his PhD in Management, with specialization in Marketing, from Cornell University. His research examines antecedents and downstream consequences of consumers' emotional experiences. He received his BA from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Goings

We extend all best wishes for future happiness, professional fulfilment and prosperity to faculty who left us during the same period.

Prof Liandong Zhang Professor, Department of Accountancy
Prof Nan Zhou Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Zhifeng Yang Associate Professor, Department of Accountancy
Dr Ho-ying Fu Associate Professor, Department of Management
Dr Daniel Ding Zhi-qiang Associate Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Costel Daniel Andonie Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance
Dr Srikant Marakani Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance
Dr Gulseren Mutlu Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance
Dr Keong-Tae Kim Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems
Dr Juhee Kwon Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems
Dr Yu Tong Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems
Dr Ruodan Shao Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Dr David H Weng Assistant Professor, Department of Management
Dr Liwen Chen Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Lan Jiang Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Chung-leung Luk Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Na Wen Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing
Dr Qiaohai Hu Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences