Research faculty

Yanwen Wang, Division Chair
Instructors
Emeriti
Current PhD students

Nathan Beloud (Dhaliwal)
Nathan has a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the evolution of cooperation and includes topics such as: punishment, moral judgment, reputation, partner choice, leadership, and prestige.

Guanzhong Du
Guanzhong has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Math from UNC Chapel Hill, an MA in Economics from Columbia University, and an MS in Marketing from VU Amsterdam. He joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2021 with a focus on consumer behaviour.

Julie Hommik
Julie has a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the UBC Sauder School of Business. Her broad industry experience includes working as a management consultant at ZS, a demand planner at Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, and the operations manager of a small-scale food producer. Julie joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2020 with a focus on consumer behaviour.

Xixi Hu
Xixi has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Actuarial Science from University of Waterloo and an MSc degree in Statistics from University of British Columbia. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in quantitative modeling in 2018.

Lucy Lu
Lucy has a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Accounting from Boston College. After two years of working experience as an auditor at Deloitte, she joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2021, focusing on consumer behaviour.

Siddhanth Mookerjee
Siddhanth has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from the University of British Columbia, and joined UBC Sauder's Marketing PhD program in 2019. His research interests include sensory perception, hedonic consumption and social influences in the marketplace.

Ekin Ok
Ekin has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a Master of Arts degree from Sabanci University. She is also a graduate of the Master of Management program at UBC Sauder, and joined the PhD program in 2016. Her research interests include social influences in consumer judgment & decision-making and goal pursuit.

Wade Wade
Wade has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Brigham Young University. He began his PhD at the UBC Sauder School of Business in 2016. His research interests include creativity, time perception, and prosocial consumer behaviour.

William Wang
William has a Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Economics, Policy, and Organizations from Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the PhD program in 2022. He is interested in prosocial behavior and consumer judgment and decision making.

Zining Wang
Zining has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Master’s degree from Erasmus University. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2018. She is interested in digital marketing, cause marketing, econometric models and machine learning.

Fan Yang
Fan has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University and an Mphil degree in Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program at 2016. She is interested in quantitative modelling.

Shangwen Yi
Shangwen received his Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Beijing Normal University, China, and joined UBC Sauder’s Marketing PhD program in 2019. His research interests include understanding how social context and attribute framing affect one’s judgement and decision making.
PhD alumni
All of our graduates have gone on to academic positions at research universities. Although this is the goal of every marketing PhD program, very few achieve it. Below is a complete list of current placements of our recent graduates.
Year | Name | First Placement |
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2022 | Brendan Strejcek | University of Toronto |
2021 | Rishad Habib | Ryerson University |
2021 | Qiyuan Wang | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
2020 | Ray Charles "Chuck” Howard | Texas A&M |
2019 | Miremad Soleymanian | Simon Fraser University |
2019 | Johannes Boegershausen | University of Amsterdam |
2018 | Adam Kay | University of Queensland |
2018 | Yoonji Shim | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
2017 | Yitian Liang | Tsinghua University |
2016 | Thomas Allard | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
2016 | Sina Ghotbi | BuildDirect Technologies Co. |
2015 | Kirk Kristofferson | Arizona State University |
2014 | Boyoun (Grace) Chae | Temple University |
2014 | Lea Dunn | University of Washington |
2014 | Chen Wang | Drexel University |
2013 | Lily Lin | California State University, Los Angeles |
2011 | Ravi Mehta | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
2010 | Lan Jiang | University of Oregon |
2009 | Brent McFerran | University of British Columbia Okanagan |
2008 | Miranda Goode | University of Western Ontario |
2008 | Xiaohua Zeng | City University of Hong Kong |
2007 | Tieshan Li | Concordia University |
2005 | Jason Ho | Ryerson University |
2004 | Laurence Ashworth | Queen's University |
2004 | Freddy Lee | California State University, Los Angeles |
2004 | Kelley Main | York University |
2004 | Robin Ritchie | University of Western Ontario |
2002 | Yong Liu | Syracuse University |
2001 | Cindy Chung | Nanyang Technological University |
1998 | Sanjeev Swami | Indian Institute of Technology |
1998 | Kwangpil Chang | Hallym University |
1998 | Darren Dahl | University of Manitoba |

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