Dr Woody Wu Di
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics and Finance
Dr Wu received his PhD degree in Finance from New York University. Before his doctoral studies, he obtained his BA and MA degrees in Economics from Tsinghua University. His main research interest is theoretical asset pricing.
Dr Alan Zhang Ran
Assistant Professor
Department of Information
Systems
Dr Zhang received his PhD in Information Systems from University of California, Irvine, and before that his Master's degree in Information Systems from Iowa State University and Bachelor's degree in Information Systems from Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics. His research studies focus on online advertising and digital markets, economics of information systems, user generated contents, and business analytics.
Dr Stylianos Despotakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Dr Despotakis received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Before that, he obtained his BSc in Mathematics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, his MSc in Logic, Algorithms, and Computation from the University of Athens, and his MSc in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimisation from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie in the areas of game theory, marketing, microeconomics, and operations research. His research focuses on topics such as competitive strategy, online markets, online advertising, auction theory, and marketing analytics.
Dr Ji Yan
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics and Finance
Dr Yan received his DPhil degree from SAID Business School at the University of Oxford. Before that, Dr Yan obtained his MA in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University, and BSc in Physics and Economics from Peking University. Dr Yan's research areas include asset pricing theory, financial economics, and financial stability. His current research focuses on collateral constraints, leverage, market incompleteness, and their policy implications.
Dr Shipeng Yan
Assistant Professor
Department of Management
Dr Yan received his PhD in Management from IESE Business School, and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining CityU, he worked as Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at Tilburg University. His current research explores the rise of novel markets and organisations, with a focus on institutional theory and the financial sector.
Dr Jane Park Jeongin
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Dr Park received her PhD in Marketing from the University of Florida. Prior to her doctoral study, she obtained her MA and BA in Marketing from Yonsei University. Her research interests include judgment and decision making, social influences, and goals and motivation.
Dr Angela Lu Qinglian
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Systems
Dr Lu received a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University in 2018. Her research interests include social networks, computational social sciences, organizations and the labour market. Her previous projects have been published in leading academic journals such as the American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology.
Dr Hyewon Cho
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Dr Cho obtained her PhD in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is passionate about studying consumer well-being with the aim of better understanding and improving the lives of consumers. She examines how individual factors such as usage of technology and cultural context can influence consumer wellbeing.
Dr Jung-ju Yu
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Dr Yu received his PhD in Marketing from Yale School of Management in 2018. He uses game-theoretic models to investigate interesting marketing phenomena. The primary focus of his research is on how firms can credibly convey information to consumers through branding and advertising, and how the information influences customer journey and, eventually, consumers' purchasing decisions.
