CUHK Business School Welcomes 24 New Faculty Members in the Academic Year 2021-22
In the academic year 2021-22, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School welcomes 24 new faculty members. They are all distinguished scholars and experts in their respective fields with solid research, industry and teaching experiences.
Following a successful worldwide recruitment campaign, CUHK Business School has appointed one professor, one associate professor, one visiting scholar, 18 assistant professors, one senior lecturer and two lecturers. Their broad range of experiences and expertise will strengthen the School’s research and teaching capabilities. These new joiners have been/will be on board between June 2021 and January 2022.
The new faculty members and the institutions from which they obtained their PhD are listed below:
School of Accountancy
Janja Brendel (The Humboldt University of Berlin) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Disclosure Regulation in Capital Markets; Financial Institutions and Fintechs; Firms’ Financial Transparency; and Short-sellers
Ruoxi Rosy Xu (The University of Miami) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Media Economics; and Networks & Social Interactions
Yucheng (John) Yang (The University of Rochester) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Corporate Disclosure; Financial Intermediaries; Financial Market Regulation; and Macroeconomic Implications of Accounting Numbers
Yanling Guan (London Business School) – Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; and Pension Accounting
Dixon Lok-kan So (The University of London) – Lecturer
Expertise: Business Law; Insurance Law; International Trade Law; Maritime Law; and Public and Private International Law
Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics
Philip Renyu Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis) – Visiting Scholar
Expertise:
Methodologies
Econometrics and Causal Inference; Game Theory; Matching; Mechanism Design; Optimisation; Randomised Experiment and Reinforcement Learning
Applications
Advertising; Inventory; Online Platforms and Marketplaces; Recommender Systems; Revenue Management and Pricing; Sharing Economy; Social Networks; and Supply Chain Management
Tim Tianyi Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Industrial Engineering; Management Algorithms; Mathematical Modelling; Network Sciences and System Dynamics
Yingzhi Liang (The University of Michigan) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Analytics; Collective Intelligence and Organisational Technology; Data Science; and Visualisation and Information Economics
Shixin Wang (New York University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Online Optimisation and Robust Optimisation
Department of Finance
Chanik Jo (The University of Toronto) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Asset Pricing; Chinese Economy; and Household Finance
Jangwoo Lee (The University of Texas at Austin) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Financial Arrangements under Asymmetric Information
Anthony Rice (Arizona State University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Corporate Finance; Environmental Finance; and Political Economy
Kailei Ye (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Corporate Finance; Entrepreneurial Finance; Labour and Finance
Chao Ying (The University of Minnesota) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Asset Pricing; Macro-finance and Dynamic Corporate Theory
School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Desmond Tsang (University of California, Berkeley) – Associate Professor
Expertise: Corporate Governance; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting Fraud; Geographic Strategy; and Real Estate Investment Trusts
Elisa Ka-yan Chan (Cornell University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Consumer Behaviour; Co-production; and Experiential Marketing
Department of Management
Haibin Yang (The University of Texas at Dallas) – Professor
Expertise: Competition in Transition Economy; Entrepreneurship; Mergers & Acquisitions; and Strategic Networks
Sanghoon (Hoonie) Kang (Rutgers University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Defensiveness and Behavioural Change; Expert Decision-Making; Negotiations; and Overconfidence and Cognitive Biases
Leo Huiyao Liao (The University of Iowa) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Family/Prosocial Motivation; Social Network Analysis; Leadership and Teams; and Interpersonal Relationships
Lisa Ya Lin (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Interfirm Networks; International Business; and Strategic Management
Cathy Chang Liu (Indiana University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: International Business and Strategic Management
Willow You Wu (Stanford University) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Intersection of Technology Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Irene Kin-yan Ho (University of Durham) – Lecturer
Expertise: Brand-Customer Relationships; Consumer Behaviour; and Emotions
Department of Marketing
Jingbo (Jimbo) Wang (The University of Southern Carolina) – Assistant Professor
Expertise: Applied Microeconomics; Causal Inference; Industrial Organisation; and Machine Learning