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Ajay Abraham
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email:
aabraham1@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2013 Candidate: Ajay has a Computer Science engineering degree from M. G.
University, India, and he did the graduate program at the Indian School of
Business (ISB), India, with concentrations in "Strategic Marketing" and
"Leadership and Change Management." Most recently, he did research and research
assistance at ISB in marketing and organizational behavior, and he was a
teaching assistant for marketing courses. He has worked at Microsoft, Wipro
Technologies, and UST Global, in roles spanning marketing, evangelism, research,
and pre-sales, and he has taught undergraduate engineering students at his alma
mater.
Ajay was awarded a full graduate assistantship and a Dean's Summer Fellowship
for his PhD studies. His research interests include the affective and cognitive
processes in attitude formation, and the motivational antecedents of behavior.
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Zachary Arens
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email:
zarens@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2012 Candidate: He holds an undergraduate
degree in marketing information systems from James Madison University and
a masters degree in survey methodology from the University of Maryland.
Prior to joining the PhD program Zac worked as a statistical analyst and
methodologist at the Gallup Organization in Washington D.C. and San Francisco.
His research interests include survey research methodology, consumer attitudes
measurement and modeling.
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Yu-Jen Chen
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: ychen@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2011 Candidate: Yu-Jen obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in
Management Science (June 2002) from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
and his MBA degree (June 2004) with concentration in finance from National
Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. While working on his master’s thesis, Yu-Jen
developed interests in behavioral finance and decided to study consumer
behavior as his future research.
At Maryland, he was awarded a full graduate assistantship and a Dean’s
Summer Research Fellowship for his PhD studies. His research interests
include consumer decision-making, judgment, and pricing.
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Jordan Etkin
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: jetkin@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2013 Candidate: She holds an
undergraduate degree in operations and information management from the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania. Jordan has worked in marketing
consulting for firms in both Washington, D.C. and New York City. Jordan is
focused on behavioral marketing, and her research interests include consumer
behavior, self-regulation, and learning.
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Jing Gao
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: jgao@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2009 Candidate: Jing
received her Master of Applied Statistics from Ohio State University and
her B.S. in Finance with Outstanding Student Scholarship from Sichuan University
in China. Before coming to the US, she worked as a financial analyst in Shenzhen,
China.
Jing was awarded a full graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer
Research Fellowship, for her PhD studies. Her primary research interest
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John Healey
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: jhealey@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2013 Candidate: He holds an undergraduate
degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Florida and a
Master's of Science in Management and a Master's of Business Administration from
the University of Florida. His research interests include services marketing,
innovation, and modeling.
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Heather Johnson
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: hjohnson@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2012 Candidate: Heather received her BS in Business from Wake Forest
University's Calloway School. Prior to joining the PhD program, Heather
conducted marketing best practice research and executive education at The
Corporate Executive Board Company in Washington, DC; she also worked in the
retail industry with Kimbrell's Furniture, Inc. and on neuroeconomics research
with consumer behaviorists at the University of South Carolina.
Heather was awarded a full graduate assistantship and a Dean's Summer Fellowship
for her PhD studies. Her research interests include indulgence, nonconscious
goal activation, and decision making in branded experience environments.
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Anupama Kothari
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall*
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: akothari@rhsmith.umd.edu
*Anupama's office is located in 1121 Stamp Student Union;
best contact method is via e-mail.
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2007 Candidate: Anupama graduated in May 2003 with a Bachelors degree
in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated
with a G.P.A of 3.7. Anupama was on the Behavioral and Social Sciences Deans
list and the National Deans list. She was also nominated as an Undergraduate
Research Assistant and she worked with Dr. Peter Coughlin on research projects
on election models and majority voting. She has been awarded an assistantship
as well as a full Dean’s Fellowship for her Ph.D studies. Her research interests
include e-services and consumer economics.
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Gauri Kulkarni
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: gkulkarn@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2009 Candidate: Gauri is in her final year in the PhD program. She
has Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the
Pennsylvania State University (May 2002, GPA 3.8). She was awarded a full
graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship, for her
PhD studies. Gauri attended the INFORMS SMS Doctoral Consortium in 2005, 2006,
and 2007. She also presented papers at the Marketing Science Conference in 2006
and at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in 2008. Her research interests include
consumer online search, marketing strategy, quantitative (empirical) modeling,
consumer economics, and customization. Prior to joining the program, Gauri held
a Mathematical Statistician position with the federal government.
Placement:
Assistant Professor
Department of Marketing
Sellinger School of Business and Management
Loyola College in Maryland
Baltimore MD 21210
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Alice Li
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: hli2@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2013 Candidate: Alice received her BS as a distinguished graduate from Renmin
University of China. She was awarded scholarships from her university,
individual and organizational fundings from 2003 to 2007. In her third and
fourth year at Renmin University of China, she participated three nationwide and
one statewide economics-related projects.
Alice was awarded a fellowship as well as a summer research assistantship at
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign, where she got her MS degree. Her
master thesis, founded by National Science Foundation, focused on economic
analysis through Mante Carlo methods.
Her research interests include quantitative modeling and Bayesian statistics in
marketing.
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Qian Li
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: qianli@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2012 Candidate: She received her MPhil degree in management studies from the
University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and her bachelors degree in
information systems with a minor in Computer Science and Technology from Xi'an
Jiaotong University in China.
Qian was awarded a full graduate assistantship along with Dean's Summer
Fellowship for her PhD studies. Her research interests include consumer
information processing and modeling.
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Ted Matherly
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: jmatherl@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2011 Candidate: Ted is
studying consumer behavior. His research is focused on how consumers use products to construct and communicate their identities to other people, as well as how those other people guide these behaviors. He has presented his work at the Association for Consumer Research conference in 2008 and the Society for Consumer Psychology conference in 2009.
He has taught undergraduate Marketing Research and has been a teaching
assistant for an MBA marketing core course. Ted received his Bachelor's degree in Communications (April 2006) from the University of Michigan, and also worked for the re:group agency in Ann Arbor, Michigan in media planning.
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Hyoryung Nam
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: hnam@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2010 Candidate: She received
her M.S. degree in Management Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology (KAIST) Graduate School of Management and her
B.S. degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Korea
University. Before joining the PhD program, she worked as a brand manager
in consumer goods industry in Korea.
At Maryland, Hyoryung was awarded a full graduate assistantship and a Dean's
Summer Fellowship for her studies. Her current research interests include
empirical models of consumer choice and CRM (Customer Relationship Marketing).
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Savannah Shi
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email: wshi@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2011 Candidate: Savannah received her Bachelor of Business Administration
from Fudan University (P.R. China) in July, 2006, with a major in Marketing
and a minor in International Economics. Prior to joining the PhD program,
she had an internship in Commercial Department of Siemens-VAI in United
Kingdom (2004) and at Deloitte Touche Tohmastu in China (2005). Also from
March-May 2006 in Fudan University, she worked as a research assistant in
a MasterCard sponsored marketing research project regarding out-bound traveling.
Here in the Smith Business School Savannah is pursuing a PhD in Marketing
with a minor in Economics. Her current research interest lies in quantitative
market analysis as well as interdisciplinary nature of marketing and economics.
Curriculum Vitae
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Yuchi Zhang
Office: 3330J Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 405-4688 or (301) 405-5774
Fax: (301) 405-0146
Email:
yzhang2@rhsmith.umd.edu
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2013 Candidate: Yuchi holds an undergraduate degree in finance from the Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the PhD program, he
worked as an investment banking analyst in Baltimore. He has also worked the
cable industry with Comcast. Yuchi was awarded a full graduate assistantship and
a Dean's Summer Fellowship for his PhD studies. His research interests include
quantitative modeling and consumer choice.
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