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Faculty Expertise Directory
Welcome to Coles College of Business’s Faculty Expertise Directory. Descriptive information contained in the directory has been provided by the individual members of the Coles College faculty. Each faculty profile includes academic titles, department/unit associations, relevant expertise, and links to their personal web pages.
It is created for the college’s many audiences, including prospective students, parents and families, journalists, and prospective faculty.
The page is designed to accomplish multiple objectives most notably in assisting internal and external stakeholders find research partners.
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Lucy Ackert Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance
Expertise: behavioral finance, experimental finance
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Radwan Ali Associate Professor of Information Systems
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: business strategy, information literacy, online learning
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Aniruddha Bagchi Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis and Professor of Economics
Chair of the Department of Economics, Finance and Quantitative Analysis and Professor of Economics
Expertise: homeland security, industrial economics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Tridib Bandyopadhyay Master of Science in Information Systems Director and Professor of Information Systems
Master of Science in Information Systems Director and Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: information security, information systems in development, information systems in healthcare
Department: Information Systems and Security
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James Boudreau Associate Professor of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics
Expertise: game theory, social choice, simulation modeling, matching, auctions
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Billie Ann Brotman Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance
Expertise: real estate
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Tyra Burton Senior Lecturer of Marketing
Senior Lecturer of Marketing
Expertise: SoTL particularly engagement, reflective assignments, team creation
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Weiwei Chen Associate Professor of Economics
Associate Professor of Economics
Expertise: health economics, health services research
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Birton Cowden Academic Director of the Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center and Associate Professor of Management
Academic Director of the Robin and Doug Shore Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center and Associate Professor of Management
Expertise: corporate entrepreneurship, minority entrepreneurship, effectuation
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Qi Dong Associate Professor of Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting
Expertise: capital market research, tax policy, executive compensation
Department: School of Accountancy
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Andy Green Assistant Professor of Information Security and Assurance
Assistant Professor of Information Security and Assurance
Expertise: cybersecurity, privacy, public policy
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Dana Hermanson Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and Professor of Accounting
Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Private Enterprise and Professor of Accounting
Expertise: fraud, boards, audit committees, auditing, enterprise risk management, accounting education
Department: School of Accountancy
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Mary Hill Associate Professor of Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting
Expertise: accounting standard setting process, stock repurchases, credit default swaps, supplier financing
Department: School of Accountancy
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Rongbing Huang Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: IPOs, follow-on offerings, equity financing, bank financing, corporate finance, investments, asset pricing, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, capital structure, econometrics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Xiao Huang Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: econometric/statistical modeling, time series forecasting
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Jennifer Hutchins Assistant Chair of the Department of Marketing and Professional Sales and Associate Professor of Marketing
Assistant Chair of the Department of Marketing and Professional Sales and Associate Professor of Marketing
Expertise: branding, sustainability, advertising
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Scott Inks Associate Professor of Professional Sales
Associate Professor of Professional Sales
Expertise: sales education
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Pramod Iyer Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Expertise: brand management, B2B positioning, services marketing, services retailing
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Brett Katzman Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
Expertise: game theory, auctions, applied microeconomics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Zeynep Kelani Senior Lecturer of Economics
Senior Lecturer of Economics
Expertise: financial behavior, financial anxiety, apathy in online courses, entrepreneurial learning mindset, cost management, global economy
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Stacey Kessler Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management
Expertise: leadership, organizational climate, work stress, counterproductive work behavior
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Ladd Kochman Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance
Expertise: sports betting
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Daniel Landis Lecturer of Accounting
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Xuepeng Liu Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
Expertise: international trade and economic development, Chinese economy
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Graham Lowman Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management
Expertise: human resource management, selection, organizational behavior, leadership, organizational culture, person-environment fit, cognitive structures
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Leo MacDonald Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
Expertise: optimization, risk analysis in decision making
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Marcus Marktanner Professor of Conflict Management and Economics
Professor of Conflict Management and Economics
Expertise: development economics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Timothy Mathews Director of the Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity and Professor of Economics
Director of the Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity and Professor of Economics
Expertise: applied game theory, public economics, industrial organization, microeconomic theory
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Herb Mattord Associate Director for the Center for Cybersecurity Education and Professor of Cybersecurity
Associate Director for the Center for Cybersecurity Education and Professor of Cybersecurity
Expertise: information security management, cybersecurity management, incident response
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Stefano Mazzotta Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: narrative economics, international finance, volatility and risk management, applied econometrics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Brent McCulloch Lecturer of Professional Sales
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Mikhail Melnik Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
Expertise: public finance, applied microeconomics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Deborah Mixson-Brookshire Director of Coles Online Programs and Professor of Management
Director of Coles Online Programs and Professor of Management
Expertise: distance learning, SOTL, first-year students
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Canan Mutlu Associate Director of the Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality and Associate Professor of Management
Associate Director of the Michael A. Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality and Associate Professor of Management
Expertise: corporate governance, international corporate governance, board of directors and top management teams, firm competitive strategy, global strategy
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Solomon Negash Professor of Information Systems
Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: classroom technologies, information technology for economic development
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Luc Noiset Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics
Expertise: economics of the public sector, public sector role in a capitalist economy
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Max North Professor of Information Systems
Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: human-computer interaction, human-computer interface, virtual reality, augmented reality (including mixed reality), technology and therapy, immersive visualization environments
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Jomon Paul Associate Dean of Research and Accreditation and Professor of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
Associate Dean of Research and Accreditation and Professor of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
Expertise: applied operations research, analytics, simulation modeling, statistical modeling, disaster planning, humanitarian logistics, homeland security, healthcare, and transportation domains
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Steven Phelan Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Expertise: entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial finance, theory of the firm, organizational economics, computational methods, value and valuation, entrepreneurial orientation
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Mia Plachkinova Associate Professor of Information Security and Assurance
Associate Professor of Information Security and Assurance
Expertise: cybersecurity, privacy, cybercrime, policy, geographic information systems, healthcare information systems, design science research, action design research
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Velina Popova Associate Director of the School of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting
Associate Director of the School of Accountancy and Professor of Accounting
Expertise: audit judgment and decision making, skepticism, fraud, ethics
Department: School of Accountancy
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Hong Qu Associate Professor of Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting
Expertise: experimental economics, behavioral economics, game theory, information economics, accounting information use
Department: School of Accountancy
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Benedikt Quosigk Associate Professor of Accounting
Associate Professor of Accounting
Expertise: healthcare, government and nonprofit
Department: School of Accountancy
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Robert Randolph Research Director and Associate Professor of Family Business/Management
Research Director and Associate Professor of Family Business/Management
Expertise: family business strategy, long-term planning, next-gen strategies, community engagement (coordinating economic and social value creation strategies)
Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality
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Adriane Randolph Associate Dean for Community and Faculty Affairs and Professor of Information Systems
Associate Dean for Community and Faculty Affairs and Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: brain-computer interfaces, neuro-information systems, neuro-education, neuromarketing, human-computer interaction, assistive technology, emotion and human behavior
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Yannick Roger Post Lecturer of Economics & Finance
Lecturer of Economics & Finance
Expertise: education methods
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Abhra Roy Associate Professor of Economics & Finance
Associate Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: homeland security, political economy of counter-terrorism/insurgencies, political economy of news media
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Khawaja Saeed Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Information Systems
Interim Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: digital supply chains, IT enabled organizational capabilities, IT acceptance and use, mobility
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Jesse Schwartz Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: auctions, bargaining, game theory, mechanism design
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Divesh Sharma PhD in Business Administration Accounting Discipline Lead and Professor of Accounting
PhD in Business Administration Accounting Discipline Lead and Professor of Accounting
Expertise: auditor opinion, auditor independence, audit committee governance, audit firm consulting, audit quality, financial misreporting, executive compensation clawbacks, director compensation
Department: School of Accountancy
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Hyunju Shin Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Expertise: relationship marketing, brand crisis, luxury marketing
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Soo Il Shin Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: social media, emerging technology, mobile media and communication, business simulation game, virtual collaboration, telehealth, computer-mediated-communication
Department: Information Systems and Security
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Russell Spears Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics
Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics
Expertise: financial economics, underwriting, lending, stocks, bonds, markets, portfolios management, fixed income securities
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Dominic Thomas Associate Professor of Information Systems
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Expertise: digital transformation, emerging technology innovation, IT staff role and leadership, role of standards, standards development
Department: Information Systems and Security
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James Tompkins Professor of Finance
Professor of Finance
Expertise: corporate governance
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Andrew Trotman Assistant Professor of Accounting
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Expertise: audit, corporate governance, internal audit
Department: School of Accountancy
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Scott Widmier Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales
Expertise: sales, sales management, international business, marketing strategy
Department: Marketing and Professional Sales
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Zhaoguo Zhan Professor of Economics & Finance
Professor of Economics & Finance
Expertise: econometrics
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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Minjiao Zhang Professor of Quantitative Analysis
Professor of Quantitative Analysis
Expertise: mixed-integer programming, stochastic programming, large-scale optimization, network optimization
Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis
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