Researcher profiles

• Accounting

  John Friedlan, PhD

  Pamela Ritchie, PhD
  Research areas:

  • financial analytics
  • market efficiencies
  • transportation policies
• Finance

  Bin Chang, PhD
  Research areas:

  • corporate governance
  • corporate payout policy
  • pension

  Karolina Krystyniak, PhD, CFA
  Research areas:

  • capital structure
  • empirical asset pricing
  • institutional trading
  • investor attention
  • market liquidity
  • market sentiment
  • stock market anomalies

  Kamal Smimou, PhD
  Research areas:

  • commodity futures
  • currency options
  • portfolio management and global risk management
  • risk management and optimization in finance

  Hui Zhu, PhD
  Research areas:

  • corporate innovation
  • corporate social responsibility
  • fixed-income securities
  • initial public offerings (IPOs)
  • international finance

  Xinyao (Joseph) Zhou
  Research areas:

  • empirical asset pricing
  • financial ecometrics
  • international finance
  • return anomalies in finance
• Management

  Rajen Akalu, PhD
  Research areas:

  • information privacy law
  • vehicular ad hoc networks
  • wireless communications policy

  Joseph Krasman, PhD
  Research areas:

  • job satisfaction
  • motivation
  • trust
  • leadership

  Igor Kotlyar, PhD
  Research areas:

  • simulations for evaluating soft skills
  • identification and development of high-potential employees
  • experiential learning
  • cognitions in the workplace
  • leadership
  • technology

  Serena Golchereh Sohrab, PhD
  Research areas:

  • group and team dynamics
  • team adaptation to complex and dynamic situations
  • team information processing and decision making
  • temporal patterns of team interactions
  • diversity management
• Marketing

  Ying (Annie) Jiang, PhD
  Research areas:

  • consumer decision-making
  • consumer food consumption
  • consumer new product adoption
  • mobile marketing

  Salma Karray, PhD
  Research areas:

  • applications of artificial intelligence in business
  • marketing Analytics
  • marketing decision models
  • marketing mix effectiveness
  • movie marketing
  • operations research and marketing interface
  • retailing and channel management
  • supply chain management

  Terry Wu, PhD
  Research areas:

  • global marketing
  • international trade policy
  • international business
  • marketing of higher education 
  • marketing of smart toys
  • North American Free Trade Agreement

  Nelson Amaral, PhD
  Research areas:

  • cross-cultural consumer behaviour
  • gender identity
  • luxury counterfeits
  • marketing ethics
  • personal brand relationships
  • persuasion

  Wei-Lin Wang, PhD
  Research areas:

  • empirical quantitative marketing
  • portfolio management
  • innovation
  • new product launch
  • purchase timing behaviour 
  • dynamic customer management
  • customer engagement
  • content marketing
• Management Science and Quantitative Methods

  Alexander Serenko, PhD
  Research areas:

  • scientometrics
  • knowledge management
  • implicit cognitive processes

  Amir Rastpour, PhD
  Research areas:

  • Big Data analytics
  • queueing theory
  • statistics
  • stochastic models

  Carolyn McGregor, PhD
  Research areas:

  • Big Data analytics
  • business process modelling
  • cloud computing
  • critical care informatics
  • event stream processing
  • health informatics
  • neonatal informatics
  • resilience assessment and development
  • space medicine
  • temporal data mining

  Fletcher Lu, PhD
  Research areas:

  • cybercrime
  • data analytics
  • insurance fraud
  • mobile fitness
  • reinforcement learning

  Gabby Resch, PhD
  Research areas:

  • data visualization
  • tangible and embodied interaction
  • digital fabrication
  • augmented reality
  • geographic visualization
  • human-centred data science
  • critical data studies

  Karthik Sankaranarayanan, PhD
  Research areas:

  • agent-based computational modelling
  • behavioural operations management
  • decision sciences
  • experimental methods
  • simulation of complex social systems
  • technology management 

  Peter Lewis, PhD
  Research areas:

  • artificial intelligence
  • socio-technical systems
  • neural networks
  • multi-agent systems
  • market-based control

  Stephen Jackson, PhD
  Research areas:

  • behavioural information security
  • digital transformation
  • electronic business
  • electronic government
  • enterprise systems implementation
  • human behaviour and information systems
  • management information systems
  • organizational culture

  Stephen Marsh, PhD
  Research areas:

  • computational trust
  • human-computer interactions
  • information flow
  • information security
  • social knowledge
  • soft security
  • trust management
• Networking and Information Technology

  Amirali Abari, PhD
  Research areas:

  • computational decision making
  • computer security 
  • machine learning
  • multi-agent systems
  • network science

  Khalil El-Khatib, PhD
  Research areas:

  • biometrics
  • cloud computing
  • feature interaction for VoIP
  • internet protocol (IP) telephony
  • smart spaces

  Patrick Hung, PhD
  Research areas:

  • aviation services
  • cybersecurity
  • services computing
  • smart city
  • toy computing

  Shahram Heydari, PhD
  Research areas:

  • network failure recovery
  • network infrastructure design
  • quality of service
  • software-defined networking

  Julie Thorpe, PhD
  Research areas:

  • authentication
  • computer security
  • human factors
  • security policy
  • software security

  Miguel Vargas Martin, PhD
  Research areas:

  • authentication
  • computer security
  • human factors
  • machine learning and data mining

  Richard W. Pazzi, PhD
  Research areas:

  • data dissemination in wireless sensor networks
  • networked 3D virtual environments
  • vehicular and sensor networks
  • vehicular cloud computing

  Ying Zhu, PhD
  Research areas:

  • network optimization
  • overlay networks over heterogeneous substrates
  • peer-to-peer networks

  Michael Bliemel, PhD
  Research areas:

  • business analytics
  • business process innovation
  • data literacy
  • digital transformation
  • e-business
  • enterprise systems
  • experiential learning
  • human computer interaction
  • management information systems
• Gaming

  Andrew Hogue, PhD
  Research areas:

  • gaming
  • robotics
  • simulation
  • virtual reality

  Bill Kapralos, PhD
  Research areas:

  • 3D sound
  • immersive technologies
  • multimodal interactions and perceptual-based rendering
  • perception of auditory events
  • serious gaming
  • virtual simulation

  Pejman Mirza-Babaei, PhD
  Research areas:

  • games user research
  • human-computer interaction
  • user-centered design
  • video games accessibility
  • video games for health and rehabilitation

  Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo, PhD
  Research areas:

  • exergames
  • gaming for medical training
  • immersive virtual reality in medical procedures
  • medical simulation

  Loutfouz Zaman, PhD
  Research areas:

  • creativity support evaluation
  • graphical user interfaces
  • information and difference visualization
  • subjunctive interfaces