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.

Name
Position
  • Lucy Ackert

    Professor of Finance

    Expertise: behavioral finance, experimental finance

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Radwan Ali

    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

    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

    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

    Expertise: game theory, social choice, simulation modeling, matching, auctions

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

  • Billie Ann Brotman

    Professor of Finance

    Expertise: real estate

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Tyra Burton

    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

    Expertise: health economics, health services research

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Birton J Cowden

    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 (Flora) Dong

    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

    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

    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

    Expertise: accounting standard setting process, stock repurchases, credit default swaps, supplier financing

    Department: School of Accountancy

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  • Xiao Huang

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    Expertise: econometric/statistical modeling, time series forecasting

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Rongbing Huang

    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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  • Jennifer Hutchins

    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

    Expertise: sales education

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

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  • Pramod Iyer

    Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales

    Expertise: brand management, B2B positioning, services marketing, services retailing

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

  • Brett Katzman

    Professor of Economics

    Expertise: game theory, auctions, applied microeconomics

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Zeynep Kelani

    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

    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

    Expertise: sports betting

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

  • Daniel Landis

    Lecturer of Accounting

    Expertise: taxation

    Department: School of Accountancy

  • Xuepeng Liu

    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

    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

    Expertise: optimization, risk analysis in decision making

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Marcus Marktanner

    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

    Expertise: applied game theory, public economics, industrial organization, microeconomic theory

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Herbert J. Mattord

    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

    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

    Expertise: sales

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

  • Mikhail Melnik

    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

    Expertise: distance learning, SOTL, first-year students

    Department: Leven School of Management, Entrepreneurship and Hospitality

  • Canan Mutlu

    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

    Expertise: classroom technologies, information technology for economic development

    Department: Information Systems and Security

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  • Luc Noiset

    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

    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 A. Paul

    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

    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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  • Miloslava Plachkinova

    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

  • Velina Popova

    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

    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

    Expertise: healthcare, government and nonprofit

    Department: School of Accountancy

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  • Robert Randolph

    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

    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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  • Lecturer of Economics & Finance

    Expertise: education methods

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

  • Abhra Roy

    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

    Expertise: digital supply chains, IT enabled organizational capabilities, IT acceptance and use, mobility

    Department: Information Systems and Security

  • Jesse A. Schwartz

    Professor of Economics & Finance

    Expertise: auctions, bargaining, game theory, mechanism design

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Part-Time Instructor of Marketing and Professional Sales

    Expertise: capital equipment sales, relationship sales, wine investing, certified sommelier

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

  • Divesh Sharma

    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

    Expertise: relationship marketing, brand crisis, luxury marketing

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

  • Soo Il Shin

    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

  • Russell Spears

    Part-Time Assistant Professor of Economics

    Expertise: financial economics, underwriting, lending, stocks, bonds, markets, portfolios management, fixed income securities

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

  • Dominic Thomas

    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

    Expertise: corporate governance

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Assistant Professor of Accounting

    Expertise: audit, corporate governance, internal audit

    Department: School of Accountancy

  • Scott Widmier

    Associate Professor of Marketing and Professional Sales

    Expertise: sales, sales management, international business, marketing strategy

    Department: Marketing and Professional Sales

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  • Professor of Economics & Finance

    Expertise: econometrics

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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  • Minjiao Zhang

    Professor of Quantitative Analysis

    Expertise: mixed-integer programming, stochastic programming, large-scale optimization, network optimization

    Department: Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

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