Faculty Members Available to Supervise
The following faculty members have indicated their availability to supervise during the 2025-2026 academic session.
| Name | Area | Research Interest | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shamel Addas | Management Information Systems | Available to supervise students with interests in interactions between humans and technology and their impacts on individual behaviors & outcomes (e.g., use of intelligent AI systems, digital health systems, the dark side of technology use). I use primarily quantitative methods. | shamel.addas@queensu.ca |
| Goce Andrevski | Strategy | My current research explores 1) the cognitive drivers of responses and non-responses to competitive attacks, 2) the effects of hostile vs. proactive competitive aggressiveness, 3) the competitive outcomes of alliances and mergers, and 4) the influence of public opinion on rivalry | 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 | Management 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 |
| Kathryn Brohman | Management Information Systems | My research aims to advance digital research and practice at Smith. Topics of interest include remote patient monitoring, fake news, social inclusion and justice, sustainable business practices, and digital transformation. | kathryn.brohman@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 |
| Sarah Burrows | Strategy | My research interests include micro-level research on family-owned businesses and entrepreneurship. With regards to family business research, I study how family dynamics influence the management of the firm and entrepreneurship across generations. I also study entrepreneurial well-being. I would be willing to *co-supervise*. | sarah.burrows@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 R. | Strategy | Sustainability, institutional change, social movements, stakeholder management/engagement, business and human rights, co-management/co-governance of natural resources, social movements. | jfchavez@queensu.ca |
| Sean Cleary | Finance | I am available to supervise MSc students in sustainable finance research. | sean.cleary@queensu.ca |
| Evan Dudley | Finance | Liquidity provision and search frictions in over-the-counter markets, climate finance, sources of contagion in banking and alternative investments. | evan.dudley@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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Michelle Lee | Strategy | My research topics of interest include shareholder activism, strategic leadership, CSR, and social class. Willing to *co-supervise* for the 2024-2025 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 behavior modelling, generative AI, and responsible AI. | yuri.levin@queensu.ca |
| Guang Li | Analytics | My research spans revenue management, retail operations, and policy design and decision-making, employing techniques from optimization and game theory to machine learning. I currently co-advise four PhD candidates, with two approaching graduation. I welcome new students who demonstrate a strong alignment with my research focus. | guang.li@queensu.ca |
| Jean-Baptiste Litrico | Strategy | My research interests include: Social Innovation; Institutional Change; Sustainability; Environmental Issues; Business Collective Action. | jlitrico@queensu.ca |
| Bertrand Malsch | Accounting | My research is informed by socio-organizational perspectives, and focuses on a variety of contemporary issues, including the impact of audit regulation on professionalism, the effect of standard setting processes, the realization of the public interest, and the construction of auditor identity. | bertrand.malsch@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 |
| 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 |
| 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 psychology. I am particularly interested in the topics of self and identity, interpersonal relationships, consumer-brand relationships, and prediction errors (e.g., planning fallacy and affective forecasting). | ekin.ok@queensu.ca |
| Anton Ovchinnikov | Analytics | I look for one or two MSc students to work on sustainability/ESG-related topics in analytics, management science, and operations. | anton.ovchinnikov@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 |
| 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 |
| Lynnette Purda | Finance | Available to supervise empirical research in finance using domestic or international data. Broad range of topics including environmental disclosures, fraud, corporate philanthropy (and other CSR activities), and technology’s impact on financial services and capital raising. | lynnette.purda@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 |
| 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 |
| Veikko Thiele | Business Economics | My research focuses on the economics of entrepreneurship, organizational economics, and dynamic pricing in e-commerce, using theoretical tools from game theory, contract theory and information economics. | thiele@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 |
| Gongtai Wang | Management Information Systems | My research studies how firms transform industries through fundamentally rethinking and strategically redesigning traditional products, services, and businesses with emerging digital technologies such as AI, blockchain, Metaverse, and IoT using qualitative case study methods. | gongtai.wang@queensu.ca |
| Ning Zhang | Accounting | I am interested in the role of information and financial reporting incentives in financial markets. | nz8@queensu.ca |