Current Students + Alumni

All Ph.D. in Business Administration students are advised by the program director, Dr. David Mauer.

The Belk College and UNC Charlotte offer outstanding research resources and facilities. The College uses the Wharton WRDS platform and subscribes to the following databases: CRSP/Compustat Merged Database, Execucomp, SDC, FISD, Dealscan, Capital IQ, Compustat Segment Data, ISS Incentive Lab, Datastream and Bloomberg.

Current Ph.D. in Business Administration Students

Alumni

  • Tom Hiebert | 2009 | The United State Military Academy | West Point, NY
  • Cinder Xinde Zhang | 2010 | Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | Shanghai, China
  • Lindsay Baran | 2010 | Assistant Professor, Kent State University | Kent, Ohio
  • Jason Berkowitz | 2012 | Assistant Professor, St. John’s University | Jamaica, NY
  • Min Park | 2012 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers University | Camden, NJ
  • Yiying Cheng | 2013 | Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas | Houston, TX
  • Minhao Cai | 2013 | Assistant Professor, Lingnan College, Sun-Yat-Sen University | Guangzhou, China
  • Patrick Schorno | 2013 | Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond – Charlotte Branch | Charlotte, NC
  • Hung Nguyen | 2013 | Research Associate, Bureau of Labor and Statistics | Washington, DC
  • Steve Martin | 2014 | Assistant Professor, Winthrop University | Rock Hill, SC
  • Jun Chen | 2014 | Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University | Fargo, ND
  • Ben Le | 2014 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Marquette University | Milwaukee, WI
  • Nischala Reddy | 2014 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington State University | Pullman, WA
  • Anan Zhuang | 2015
  • Robert (Mike) Dickson | 2015 | Horizon Investments | Charlotte, NC
  • Samuel Abankwa | 2016 | Bank of America
  • Katerina Ivanov | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Pfeiffer University | Charlotte, NC
  • Sailu (Lulu) Li | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University | Valparaiso, IN
  • Kwabena Kesse | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of South Dakota | Vermillion, SD
  • Brett Blazevich | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Flagler College | St. Augustine, FL
  • Junya Jiang | 2018 | Wells Fargo Bank
  • Xinxin Li | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Ithaca College | Ithaca, NY
  • Charles Teague | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Eastern Michigan University | Ypsilanti, MI
  • Ziye (Zoe) Nie | 2019 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University | New Orleans, LA
  • Shuangshuang (Sarah) Ji | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University | Murfreesboro, TN
  • Ke Shang | 2019 | Harvest Fund Management | Beijing, China
  • Sean Brunson | 2020 | Citibank
  • Ahmet Nart | 2020 | Citibank
  • Lingfei Kong | 2021 | Post Doc, Washington University | Saint Louis, MO
  • Xi Mo | 2021 | Assistant Professor, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Belton, TX
  • Dhara Shah | 2021 | US Bank
  • Natalia Villatoro | 2021 | US Bank
  • Gunratan Lonare | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Illinois State University | Normal, IL
  • Chen Shen | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Ontario Tech University | Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Taichun Piao | 2022 | Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Charlotte | Charlotte, NC
  • Yueliang Lu | 2023 | Clinical Assistant Professor, Clemson University | Clemson, SC
  • Hao Zhang | 2023 | Citibank