Our current PhD students
At UBC Sauder, our PhD students come from a variety of different educational backgrounds such as:
Accounting
Mengyang Guo
BS (Sichuan), MS (Boston College), PhD Student
Research Interests: Banking and Financial Disclosure; Corporate Finance
Changhao (Justin) Jia
BEcon (Hunan), MAE (Duke)
Research Interests: Information Disclosure; Regulation.
Xin (Cyndia) Wang
PhD Student
Finance
Percy (Xuhui) Chen
BA (Southwest University)
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance
Email: xuhui.chen@sauder.ubc.ca
Xiyue Li
BS, BMgt (Nankai), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Corporate Finance
Email: xiyue.li@sauder.ubc.ca
Xing Liu
BA (Renmin), MFin (Tsinghua) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Insurance; InsurTech; FinTech; Consumer and Household Finance; Behavioral and Experimental Finance; Private Equity
Email: xing.liu@sauder.ubc.ca
Dongliang Lu
BS (Shanghai Jiaotong), MS (Columbia) PhD Student
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation
Email: dongliang.lu@sauder.ubc.ca
Juan Martin Rinaldi
BA (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba), MSc (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)
Research Interests: Asset Pricing, Macro Finance
Xi (Tina) Tian
BS (Wuhan), MITB (SMU), MSc (Queen’s), PhD Student
Research Interests: Â Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation
Jin (Iris) Wang
BCom (British Columbia), MSc (Queen's) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Empirical Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Labour Finance; Venture Capital; FinTech
Email: iris.wang@sauder.ubc.ca
Zhanbing Xiao
BA (Xi'an Jiaotong), MPhil (Chinese U. of Hong Kong) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Climate Finance; ESG; Big Data; Financial Institutions
Email: zhanbing.xiao@sauder.ubc.ca
Shiqi Zhang
BEcon (Central University of Finance and Economics), MS (Peking), PhD Student
Research Interests: Asset Pricing
Email: shiqi.zhang@sauder.ubc.ca
Keling Zheng
BEng (Nanjing), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Student
Research Interests: Asset Pricing
Email: keling.zheng@sauder.ubc.ca
Management Information Systems
Naomi Berenfeld Ben Yossef
LLB, MBA (Tel Aviv), PhD Student
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence in IS; Security; Smart Cities
Myunghwan Lee
BA, MS (Yonsei) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis, Topic Modelling, Organizational Behaviour, Network Analysis
Jaecheol Park
BA (Yonsei), BA (Yonsei), MS (Yonsei), PhD Student
Research interests: Economics of Information Systems, Platforms and User Behaviour, Data Analytics
Sepide Sadeghi
BSc (University of Science and Technology), MSc (University of Tehran), PhD Student
Research Interests: Agent-based modelling and simulation
Rui Cao
BSc (Illinois Wesleyan), MSc (UBC), PhD Student
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Financial Disclosure, Corporate Social Network
Management Science
Yifeng Cao
BA (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), PhD Student
Jiangze Han
BA (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) PhD Candidate
Yiwen Jin
PhD Candidate
Shanshan Luo
BS (Xi’an Jiaotong), MA (Pennsylvania), PhD Student
Xinyuan Zhang
PhD Student
Marketing and Behavioural Science
Guanzhong Du
BA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), MA (Columbia), Master’s (VU Amsterdam)
Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour
Julie Hommik
BASc (Toronto), MBA (British Columbia), PhD Student
Research interests: Consumer Behaviour
Xixi Hu
BMath (Waterloo), MSc (British Columbia) PhD Student
Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing
Tianyujun Lu
BS (Boston College), PhD Student
Research Interests: Emotions; Identity and Its Impact on Consumer Judgment and Behaviour
Siddhanth Mookerjee
BCom (British Columbia) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Sensory Marketing, Social Influences in the Marketplace, Hedonic Consumption
Xilin Song
BBA (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics), MSc (Chinese University of Hong Kong), PhD Student
Research Interests: Quantitative Marketing; Empirical Modelling
Zining Wang
BEcon (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Master's (Erasmus) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Digital Marketing; Cause Marketing; Econometric Models and Machine Learning
Shangwen Yi
BS (Beijing Normal University) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour, Social Influence, Product Attribute Framing, Well-being, Sensation
William Wang
BA (Carnegie Mellon), PhD Student
Research Interests: Consumer Judgment and Decision Making; Prosocial Behaviour
Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources
Pascale Fricke
BSc (Arizona), MSc (Utrecht and Karl-Franzens University of Graz) PhD Student
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Cultural Values; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility; Innovation; Organizational Learning; Multinational Corporations
Hsuan-Che (Brad) Huang
BS (National Taiwan University), PhD Student
Research Interests: Morality and Justice; Dark Sides of OB (e.g., hypocrisy, deception, bullsh*t); Conflict and Negotiation; Meaning of Work; Culture and Diversity; Behavioral Science
Dennis Ma
BCom (British Columbia) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: Organization Theory; Social Networks; Family Business; Immigrants; Incivility and Discrimination; Life Course Research; Organizational Ecology
Gabrielle Voiseux
BS, MS (Erasmus), PhD Student
Research Interests: Machine Learning Applications in HRM and AI-Augmented HRM; Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Perception; Responsible AI
Ryan Tao Zhou
BSc (Nottingham-Ningbo), MSc (Chinese University of Hong Kong), PhD Student
Research Interests: Non-Work Related Activity; Cognitive Process; Apprenticeship; Impression Management
Strategy and Business Economics
Ce (Eileen) Bian
BSc (HKUST), PhD Student
Research Interests: International Trade; Industrial Organization
Zining Liu
BSc (HKUST), MA (Texas, Austin) PhD Student
Research Interests: Industrial Organization, International Trade
Saattvic
BA (Hons) (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University), MPhil (Oxford), PhD Student
Research interests: Industrial Organization, Digital Economics, Media Economics, Competition & Antitrust
Nan Wang
BA (Beijing Institute of Technology), MS (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Research Interests: Industrial Organization; Innovation
Siying Wang
BA, MA (Central University of Finance and Economics) PhD Candidate
Research Interests: International Trade
Nicolas Wesseler
BA (University of Muenster), MS (University of Tuebingen/University of Pavia), PhD Student
Research Interests: International Trade; Political Economy
Transportation & Logistics
Maozhu Liao
BA, MA (Sichuan), PhD Student
Yilin Zhang
BEcon (Harbin Institute of Technology), MEcon (University of International Business and Economics), PhD Student
Research interests: Transport Economics, International Economics, Policy Analysis
Urban Land Economics
Daryl Larsen
BS (Brigham Young)
Research Interests: Urban Economics; Housing; Real Estate; Migration
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