Faculty Members Available to Supervise
The following faculty members have indicated their availability to supervise during the 2026-2027 academic session.
| Name | Area | Research Interest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goce Andrevski | Strategy | My current research explores: 1) the behavioral drivers behind firms’ responses—and deliberate non-responses—to competitive attacks, 2) the role of competitive surprise in shaping the dynamics of rivalry, 3) the conditions under which competitive aggressiveness enhances firm performance, 4) the strategic outcomes of alliance networks and mergers, and 5) the impact of public opinion on firms’ competitive behavior. | goce.andrevski@queensu.ca | |
| Laurence Ashworth | Marketing | I use experiments (online, lab, and field) to study consumer psychology. Recent work with graduate students has investigated why people react so negatively to persuasion and factors that cause gift recipients to become suspicious of the gifts they receive. | laurence.ashworth@queensu.ca | |
| Abayomi Baiyere | Information Systems | I research issues at the intersection of digital transformation, disruption, and the societal impact of digitalization. I mostly adopt a design science, ethnography, or mixed methods approach. | a.baiyere@queensu.ca | |
| Jake Brower | Marketing | My primary research interests are in the domain of marketing strategy, and methodologically normally come from a quantitative perspective. Substantively, my research has focused on sustainability and corporate social responsibility, brand activism, digital marketing and analytics, and top management team dynamics, however I'm open to supervising a wide variety of problem-driven strategy-relevant research questions. | jbrower@queensu.ca | |
| Paul Calluzzo | Finance | My research interests are focused on institutional investors, corporate governance, mutual fund performance, and empirical asset pricing. | paul.calluzzo@queensu.ca | |
| Pierre Chaigneau | Finance | At the PhD level, theoretical research in corporate finance and corporate governance for students with strong training in mathematics and economics. | pierre.chaigneau@queensu.ca | |
| Abhirup Chakrabarti | Strategy | I study corporate strategy and organizational intelligence. Interrelated topics include (a) corporate transformation and spatial evolution, (b) geographic strategy (location of units, competition), (c) acquisitions strategy, (d) strategic responses to regulation (environmental, economic, social), (e) strategic adaptation to environmental shocks (economic crises, hyper-turbulence, new forms), and (f) organizational experimentation. There is scope to engage with ongoing projects or to develop new studies. | abhirup.chakrabarti@queensu.ca | |
| Juan Francisco Chavez Ramirez | Strategy | Sustainability, institutional change, social movements, stakeholder management/engagement, business and human rights, co-management/co-governance of natural resources. | jfchavez@queensu.ca | |
| Elaheh Fata | Analytics | I am available to supervise analytical research. Students should be comfortable with mathematical modeling, probability, optimization and machine learning. | elaheh.fata@queensu.ca | |
| Anthony Goerzen | International Business | My research examines how organizations (i.e., multinational corporations, nongovernmental or nonprofit organizations, government policy-makers) address social justice and environmental stewardship within their global supply chains. A second area of interest has to do with the process of economic globalization with a particular focus on the role of “global cities” in affecting firms, technology, and society. | anthony.goerzen@queensu.ca | |
| Bhargav Gopal | Business Economics | My research is at the intersection of labor economics, finance, and law and economics. I am currently working on projects that study diversity in corporate leadership and the effects of non-competition agreements. | b.gopal@queensu.ca | |
| Raga Gopalakrishnan | Analytics | I am interested in the modeling, analysis, and optimal design of queues with strategic agents, which involves blending models of human strategic interaction (game-theoretic and other behavioral models) with traditional queueing models using a rigorous mathematical approach. | rg78@queensu.ca | |
| Jay Handelman | Marketing | I am available to supervise students interested in a qualitative approach to consumer and marketplace phenomena. This is particularly relevant for students interested in taking a sociological perspective on marketing and consumer behaviour. | jay.handelman@queensu.ca | |
| Yu Hou | Accounting | I am enthusiastic about exploring interesting topics on capital markets, primarily using archival data and novel analytical technologies. My recent work has delved into understanding the roles of analysts and auditors in the contexts of unique settings in the US and China. | yu.hou@queensu.caa | |
| Olena Ivus | Business Economics | My research employs both theory and empirical work to study aspects of international trade law and regulation, intellectual property protection, and international high-skilled migration. | olena.ivus@queensu.ca | |
| Edem Klobodu | Marketing | I am interested in exploring policy questions that relate to the intersection of marketing and the economic aspects of digital financial services for underserved communities. My research is centred around evaluating the effects of marketing-based initiatives, like the introduction of digital loans and interoperability, on both consumer welfare and business performance. To estimate these economic impacts and understand the underlying mechanisms, I use a combination of quasi-experimental and survey methods. | edem.klobodu@queensu.ca | |
| Beste Kucukyazici | Analytics | Healthcare analytics, medical-decision making, socially responsible operations | beste.kucukyazici@queensu.ca | |
| Michelle Lee | Strategy | My research topics of interest include shareholder activism, strategic leadership, CSR, and social class. Willing to *co-supervise* for the 2026-2027 academic year. | michelle.k.lee@queensu.ca | |
| Yanzhe (Murray) Lei | Analytics | My current research focuses on designing practical data-driven analytics for complex decision-making problems, and understanding how to make data-driven analytics better aligned with societal values, especially privacy and fairness. | yl64@queensu.ca | |
| Yuri Levin | Analytics | revenue management and dynamic pricing, customer behaviour modeling, and agentic AI | yuri.levin@queensu.ca | |
| Guang Li | Analytics | My research focuses on revenue management, retail operations, and policy design and decision-making, drawing on methods from optimization, game theory, and machine learning. I welcome students with strong technical backgrounds and well-aligned research interests. | guang.li@queensu.ca | |
| Jean-Baptiste Litrico | Strategy | My research interests include: Social Innovation; Institutional Change; Industry Evolution; Sustainability Transition; Environmental Issues; Business Collective Action; Social Activism. | jlitrico@queensu.ca | |
| Paula Lopez-Pena | Business Economics | I use field experiments and survey data to study how adverse life events—from minor daily hassles to traumatic experiences—affect employment, productivity, and health. My current projects focus on changing toxic workplace cultures, removing barriers to women’s employment and entrepreneurship, expanding access to mental health services, and reducing intimate partner violence. | paula.lopezpena@queensu.ca | |
| Christopher Miners | Organizational Behaviour | Christopher Miners' research investigates the role of emotional intelligence in the workplace, and the antecedents and consequences of counternormative behaviour. His research also explores the science and practice of people analytics. He has published papers on these topics in a variety of journals, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. His research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. | christopher.miners@queensu.ca | |
| Elspeth Murray | Strategy | I am interested in understanding the shift to more purpose driven organizations, with a specific focus on larger enterprises trying to affect this shift and those that are going beyond ESG reporting to think differently about measuring impact. I prefer qualitative research methods and MSc students. | elspeth.murray@queensu.ca | |
| Mikhail Nediak | Analytics | revenue management, dynamic pricing, operations-marketing interface, operations-finance interface, responsible AI | mikhail.nediak@queensu.ca | |
| Yulia Nevskaya | Marketing | Available to supervise students interested in quantitative marketing. Wide range of topics, including digital content consumption, consumer response to advertising, consumer information use. Broad set of methods, such as machine learning, choice modeling, dynamic programming. | yulia.nevskaya@queensu.ca | |
| Eddy Ng | Organizational Behaviour | Available to supervise students with interests in gender and diversity in organizations and human resources management – topics include, but are not limited to, employment equity and affirmative action, public policy on fair treatment, employment and workplace discrimination, and Pinkerton syndrome at work. | eddy.ng@queensu.ca | |
| Ekin Ok | Marketing | My research is in consumer behaviour and I primarily use experimental methods. Current projects include topics related to identity, interpersonal relationships, self-care, and prediction biases (e.g., planning fallacy and affective forecasting). I am available to supervise students interested in consumer psychology who wish to use experimental methods in their research. | ekin.ok@queensu.ca | |
| Kelley Packalen | Strategy | My current work focuses on integrity in academia and beyond as well as work integration social enterprises. I draw on theories from organization studies, entrepreneurship and sociology with a focus on imprinting, moral disengagement and organizational culture. | kelley.packalen@queensu.ca | |
| Nicole Robitaille | Marketing | I am available to supervise students who are interested in experimental consumer research, both in the lab and field. My work focuses on applying behavioral science to address consumer, marketing, and policy issues across a variety of domains including financial, health and sustainable behaviours. | nicole.robitaille@queensu.ca | |
| Jean-Paul Roy | International Business | I am available to supervise research in the areas of international joint venture partner selection, trust and commitment in international partnerships, the social networking practices of managers in China and Japan, and broader research on management practices in Japan. | jean-paul.roy@queensu.ca | |
| Steven Salterio | Accounting | I have successfully supervised students in archival, field, and experimental research in auditing, management accounting, and corporate governance. My belief is that your research passion is determined by you and that together we develop a topic that fits your goals. | steven.salterio@queensu.ca | |
| Michael Sartor | International Business | My research focuses on international business and global business strategy with an emphasis on the effects of the institutional environment in foreign markets upon the strategies and performance of multinational enterprises (MNEs). | michael.sartor@queensu.ca | |
| Matthias Spitzmuller | Organizational Behaviour | Matthias Spitzmuller's research centers on team leadership and helping behaviors in organizations. In the area of team leadership, he explores non-traditional forms of leadership that move beyond hierarchical models, such as shared and rotating leadership. His second stream of research examines the outcomes of various types of helping behavior, with a particular focus on understanding when such behaviors lead to positive versus negative consequences for the well-being of those who engage in them. His work has been published in leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and American Psychologist, among others. | matthias.spitzmuller@queensu.ca | |
| Blake Steenhoven | Accounting | I primarily use experiments and interviews to study the judgment and decision making of investors, managers, analysts, and other capital market participants. I have a particular interest in qualitative characteristics of financial disclosure, including textual and vocal cues. | blake.steenhoven@queensu.ca | |
| Wulin Suo | Finance | My research interest is in the general area of asset pricing, particularly in derivative pricing and risk management. My current research explores the applications of machine learning in pricing and hedging exotic options. I am available to supervise MSc students with adequate computing skill who are interested in this area. | wulin.suo@queensu.ca | |
| Selim Topaloglu | Finance | I am available to supervise students in empirical asset pricing, stock market anomalies, trading behavior of individual and institutional investors, and analyst behavior. | selim.topaloglu@queensu.ca | |
| Vedat Verter | Analytics | My primary expertise is in real life applications of healthcare analytics. The projects I carry out are typically at hospitals, and other care providing institutions. The work involves performing descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics on patient data. I also work on the development of mathematical models to facilitate policy development in the areas of health care, sustainability, and circular economy. | vedat.verter@queensu.ca | |
| Jue Wang | Analytics | Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability. | juewang-faculty@queensu.ca | |
| Nasrin Yousefi | Analytics | My research interests include data-driven optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, inverse optimization, and machine learning with a particular focus on healthcare operations. | nasrin.yousefi@queensu.ca | |
| Ning Zhang | Accounting | I am interested in the role of information and financial reporting incentives in financial markets. | nz8@queensu.ca | |
| Christy Zhou Koval | Organizational Behaviour | My research examines factors that contribute to inequity in the workplace and society at large. I’m available to supervise students with interests in diversity and inclusion in the workplace, stereotyping and bias, and intergroup relations. | christy.koval@queensu.ca |