Sixteen new PhD students are beginning their academic journey at the Smith School this fall. Hailing from all across the globe and from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds, these new PhDs will be researching alongside Smith's best and brightest minds.
"We are very excited to welcome our PhDs to the Smith School of Business," says Bob Windle, academic director of Smith's PhD Program. "We have students joining us from Big 10 universities, universities across the country and universities across the globe. Their diverse backgrounds will make for an excellent new class of researchers and academics here at Smith."
The University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research (ISR) program, a research unit within the A. James Clark School of Engineering, is funding one of Smith's new PhDs. She will be doing joint research between the business and engineering school.
This new class of PhDs is 31 percent female, has an average GMAT score of 729, and has an average GPA of 3.68 (undergraduate) and 3.69 (graduate). They will explore topics such as asset pricing, health care management, data mining, price discrimination and many more. After an orientation program the week of August 17-21, they began their first classes.
| Name | Lida Ann Apergi |
| Program | Operations Management/Management Science |
| Hometown | Athens, Greece |
| Education | B.S. in Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece M.S. in Management Science, London School of Economics, United Kingdom |
| Research Interests | Healthcare operations research |
| Other interests | Rock climbing |
| Name | Rohan D'Lima |
| Program | Supply Chain Management |
| Hometown | Goa, India |
| Education | B.E. in Computer Engineering, GOA University, India MBA in International Management & Marketing, Pforzheim University, Germany |
| Research Interests | Supply chain risks, supply chain sustainability, cultural backgrounds and experiences related to supply chain decisions. |
| Other interests | Playing sports, bicycling, climbing, books, music, and movies |
| Name | Tianyu He |
| Program | Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management |
| Hometown | Beijing, China |
| Education | LL.B. in Sociology, Peking University, China B.S. in Psychology, Peking University, China M.A. in Sociology, Emory University |
| Research Interests | Antecedents and consequences of individual interactions in the workplace. How status, power and culture shape workplace interactions and how these interactions influence individual decision-making, performance and group/team/organization dynamics. |
| Other interests | Chinese calligraphy, running, fervent movie and theater goer |
| Name | Cody Hyman |
| Program | Accounting and Information Assurance |
| Hometown | Meriden, Connecticut |
| Education | B.A. in Economics & Sociology, Clark University M.A. in Economics, George Washington University |
| Research Interests | Bank supervision, behavioral finance/market discipline |
| Other interests | Cooking and sailing |
| Name | Sabari Rajan Karmegam |
| Program | Information Systems |
| Hometown | Chennai, India |
| Education | B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Madras, India MBA in Finance and Systems, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India MBL in Business Law, National Law School of India University, India |
| Research Interests | Information economics, technology policy, privacy and security |
| Other interests | Avid movie and history buff |
| Name | Min Kim |
| Program | Marketing (Quantitative) |
| Hometown | Gunsan, South Korea |
| Education | B.A. in Economics, Virginia Tech University M.A. in Economics, Virginia Tech University M.S. in Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Research Interests | Price discrimination, two-side market, discrete choice model |
| Other interests | Finger-style guitar and blues music |
| Name | You Jeung (Nicole) Kim |
| Program | Marketing (Consumer Behavior) |
| Hometown | Busan, South Korea |
| Education | B.A., Yonsei University, South Korea M.S. in Marketing, Yonsei University, South Korea |
| Research Interests | Behavioral decision-making, intertemporal choice, self-other theories, and status consumption |
| Name | Benjamin King |
| Program | Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship |
| Hometown | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Education | B.A. in Economics & Political Science, Brigham Young University MBA in International Relations, Brigham Young University |
| Research Interests | Innovation, boundaries of the firm, entrepreneurship in high-tech industries |
| Other interests | Fishing, basketball and pottery |
| Name | Shuaiqi Li |
| Program | Finance |
| Hometown | Zibo, China |
| Education | B.A. in Financial Mathematics & Financial Engineering, Shandong University, China M.S. in Finance, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Research Interests | Asset pricing and corporate finance |
| Name | Alena D. Marand |
| Program | Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship |
| Hometown | Blacksburg, VA |
| Education | B.S. in Finance, Virginia Tech University |
| Research Interests | Labor markets, knowledge innovation and entrepreneurship |
| Other interests | Hiking, yoga, cooking and eating, traveling, skiing, rock climbing, volleyball, & soccer |
| Name | Raveesh Mayya |
| Program | Information Systems |
| Hometown | Moodbidri/Mangalore, India |
| Education | B.E. in Electronics & Communication, Visveswaraiah Technological University, India MBA in Marketing, University of Delhi, India |
| Research Interests | Choice modeling, health IT, pricing online/digital products & services. |
| Other interests | Quizzing and dancing |
| Name | Dae Hoon Noh |
| Program | Operations Management/Management Science |
| Hometown | Seoul, South Korea |
| Education | B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea M.S. in Operations Research, Georgia Tech University |
| Research Interests | Price discrimination, stochastic processes, inventory management |
| Name | Fikret Polat |
| Program | Accounting and Information Assurance |
| Hometown | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Education | B.S. in Computer Science, Bogazici University, Turkey M.S. in Financial Economics, University of Missouri M.A. in Accountancy & Economics, University of Missouri |
| Research Interests | Financial accounting and the role of accounting information in the macroeconomy, corporate governance, behavioral finance and tax avoidance |
| Name | Ai Ren |
| Program | Operations Management/Management Science |
| Hometown | Shenyang, China |
| Education | PhD in Mathematics, University of Cincinnati M.S. in Information Management, Benedictine University B.S. in Mathematics, University of Science & Technology, China |
| Research Interests | Healthcare management and data mining |
| Other interests | Fishing |
| Name | Taiyi (Tom) Yan |
| Program | Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management |
| Hometown | Beijing, China |
| Education | B.S. in Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Research Interests | Team, personality, and adaptation |
| Other interests | Basketball, hip hop, cars, world travel |
| Name | Wei Zhou |
| Program | Finance |
| Hometown | Xiamen, Fujian, China |
| Education | B.S. in Mathematics, University of Science & Technology, China PhD in Mathematics, University of Minnesota |
| Research Interests | Asset pricing |
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