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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Anthony Goerzen | International Business | My research examines how multinational organizations (i.e., corporations, nongovernmental organizations, policy-makers) improve social justice & environmental stewardship within global supply chains. A second area of focus is the role of “global cities” in the process of globalization. | anthony.goerzen@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.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 |
| Paula Lopez-Pena | Business Economics | I study how adverse life events, from minor daily hassles to traumatic experiences, affect health behavior and labor market outcomes. My current projects span female entrepreneurship, toxic work cultures and firm productivity, forced displacement, and the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence. | paula.lopezpena@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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Erica Pimentel | Accounting | I use qualitative methods (interviews and netnography) to study how technology impacts professionals at work. I am particularly interested in how professions are changing in light of new technologies like blockchain and remote work. | erica.pimentel@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 |
| Vedat Verter | Analytics | My 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. | vedat.verter@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 |
| Jue Wang | Analytics | Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability. | juewang-faculty@queensu.ca |
| Nasrin Yousefi | Analytics | My research interests include data-driven optimization techniques and statistical models on the theoretical side, and healthcare operations management on the applied side. I am looking for highly motivated graduate students with strong mathematical backgrounds and coding skills. | 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 |