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9/20/22
Stephanie Argentine

Executive in Residence at the Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
Expertise: employee engagement, recruitment and retention; startups and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs); compensation and benefits; the future of work; succession planning; board governance; strategic planning
Contact: Stephanie Argentine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
3/28/24
Christine P. Bartholomew

Professor of Law

Expertise: class actions, antitrust law, consumer protection, clergy abuse, clergy privilege
Phone: 716-645-7399
Email: cpb6@buffalo.edu
9/20/22
Kate Bezrukova
Associate Professor and Chair of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: team chemistry in business and sports; managing a diverse workforce; unconscious bias at work; negotiations and gender; work-life balance; conflict management; artificial intelligence in teams

Contact: Kate Bezrukova can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
6/16/23
S. Todd Brown

Professor of Law

Expertise: business bankruptcy, bankruptcy trusts, complex litigation/mass torts, corporate governance, and corporate fraud
Phone: 716-645-2052
Email: stbrown2@buffalo.edu
11/2/23
Lora Cavuoto
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise: ergonomics, occupational safety and health, fatigue monitoring, worker quality of life

Phone: 716-645-4696
Email: loracavu@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Abigail Cooke

Associate Professor of Geography

Expertise: economic impact of immigration; economic impact of international trade; urban economies; international trade

Phone: 716-645-0486
Email: amcooke@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Michael Dambra
Associate Professor of Accounting and Law
Expertise: economic consequences of regulatory changes; initial public offerings (IPOs); pension accounting; valuation of privately held equity

Contact: Michael Dambra can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Yige Dong

Assistant Professor of Sociology, and of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: labor, work, gender and political economy, especially in China; labor and feminist movements in China and in a global context
Phone: 716-645-2417
Email: yigedong@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lucinda M. Finley

Frank G. Raichle Professor of Trial and Appellate Advocacy
Expertise: abortion, reproductive rights, women and the law, Supreme Court, employment discrimination, equal protection law, tort law and reform
Phone: 716-645-6152
Email: finleylu@buffalo.edu
Contact: Finley can also be contacted through Doug Sitler in UB Media Relations at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Veljko Fotak
Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: international corporate finance, sovereign wealth funds, syndicated loan markets, currency markets, short selling, government interventions and equity bailouts, and the intersection of finance and politics
Contact: Veljko Fotak can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Joana Gaia
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: health information systems; business intelligence; digital security and privacy; data analytics; emergency management; girls and STEM careers

Contact: Joana Gaia can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Indranil Goswami

Assistant Professor of Marketing
Expertise: motivation and self-control; incentive policies; charitable giving and pro-social behavior; cognitive biases; deadlines and procrastination; judgment and decision-making; market research; consumer behavior
Contact: Indranil Goswami can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
1/5/24
Venu Govindaraju

Vice President for Research and Economic Development

Expertise: artificial intelligence, including document analysis recognition, machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics and generative AI

Phone: 716-645-3321
Email: govind@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Emily Grijalva
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: narcissism, gender, leadership

Contact: Emily Grijalva can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Feng Gu
Chair of Accounting and Law

Expertise: financial reporting; mergers and acquisitions; intangibles; corporate governance; insider trading
Contact: Feng Gu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Trina Hamilton
Associate Professor of Geography
Expertise: corporate responsibility, social and environmental activism, diamond trade, gentrification

Phone: 716-645-0482
Email: trinaham@buffalo.edu
2/15/23
Erin Hatton

Professor of Sociology

Expertise: labor movements, gig economy, job security, coerced labor, pay for college athletes, minimum wage, workfare
Phone: 716-645-8476
Email: eehatton@buffalo.edu
10/3/22
Nicole Hunter

Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: environmental economics, international trade, public policy, taxation, personal finance

Contact: Nicole Hunter can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Arun Lakshmanan
Associate Professor of Marketing
Expertise: sensory marketing and visual perception; consumer attention and learning; new product use and design; advertising and social media

Contact: Arun Lakshmanan can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
G. James Lemoine
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: servant leadership; gender and leadership; ethics and moral leadership; leadership and motivation; entrepreneurial leaders; creativity and innovation; managing under volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

Contact: G. James Lemoine can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
10/26/23
Kemper E. Lewis
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Expertise: advanced manufacturing, mass customization, engineering design
Phone: 716-645-2682
Email: kelewis@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Charles Lindsey

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: consumer behavior, advertising, marketing strategy and research, brand loyalty, serving and package sizes

Contact: Charles Lindsey can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Timothy Maynes
Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: employee-driven innovation and change; employee productivity, engagement and performance; effective team functioning (especially in sports)

Contact: Timothy Maynes can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
10/26/23
Joanne Song McLaughlin
Associate Professor of Economics

Expertise: labor economics; health insurance mandates; age discrimination; older workers; AI and the future of work
Phone: 716-645-8685
Email: jsmclaug@buffalo.edu
1/12/22
Thomas Murdock
Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship
Expertise: emerging entrepreneurship, business incubation, economic development (particularly technology-based), startups as economic drivers, startup business plans/business models, customer discovery, social entrepreneurship

Contact: Thomas Murdock can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/12/23
Nadine Shaanta Murshid

Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Expertise: microfinance, mobile financial services, domestic violence, street harassment, women’s health, trauma
Phone: 716-645-5749
Email: nadinemu@buffalo.edu
2/11/20
Robert Neubert
Director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs in the UB School of Management

Expertise: entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship and corporate innovation; business model development for early-stage firms; lean startup methods; mentoring early-stage technology companies

Contact: Robert Neubert can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Scott Ptak

Clinical Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Strategy
Expertise: global economics, including inflation, currencies and exchange rates; international trade; business location strategies
Contact: Scott Ptak can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Dominik Roesch

Associate Professor of Finance
Expertise: arbitrage, liquidity, international markets, market efficiency, market microstructure
Contact: Dominik Roesch can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Adam Rome

Professor of Environment and Sustainability
Expertise: environmental movement in the U.S., environmental history, Earth Day, sustainable business, suburban sprawl
Phone: 716-645-8665
Email: adamrome@buffalo.edu
10/26/23
Dominic Sellitto
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: cybersecurity; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; artificial intelligence and its interplays with cybersecurity; data analytics; health care analytics; automation technologies
Contact: Dominic Sellitto can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Sanjukta Smith
Associate Professor and Chair of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: online social networks, cloud computing, data center operations
Contact: Sanjukta Smith can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Inho Suk

Associate Professor of Accounting and Law
Expertise: corporate voluntary disclosures; accounting fraud; environmental, social and governance (ESG) accounting; mergers and acquisitions (consolidation) accounting; executive and employee turnover; accounting-marketing interface
Contact: Inho Suk can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Nallan Suresh
UB Distinguished Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy
Expertise: global supply networks; supply chain disruptions; U.S. and global manufacturing; international trade; logistics; infrastructure; economic development
Contact: Nallan Suresh can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Brandon Szerwo
Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law
Expertise: financial reporting and audit quality, corporate governance, financial regulation, management disclosures, auditor disclosures, financial accounting
Contact: Brandon Szerwo can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/23/21
Gwynn Thomas, PhD

Chair and Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Expertise: gender and politics; feminism; global women’s movements, including #MeToo; politics in Latin America
Phone: 716-645-0793
Email: gmthomas@buffalo.edu
6/26/23
Cristian Tiu
Associate Professor and Chair of Finance
Expertise: stock market; hedge funds; financial fraud; risk management and asset allocation; institutional investors; text analysis in finance

Contact: Cristian Tiu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Min-Hsuan Tu
Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources
Expertise: abusive leadership; power and influence; leader identity and development

Contact: Min-Hsuan Tu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
8/16/21
Thomas Ulbrich
Executive in Residence for Entrepreneurship in the UB School of Management
Expertise: entrepreneurship and startups, entrepreneurial skills and attributes, entrepreneurial education, small business, family business, customer loyalty, social entrepreneurship

Contact: Thomas Ulbrich can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
11/2/23
Aditya Vedantam
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy
Expertise: sustainability in operations and supply chains; clean energy technologies; recycling; recycled content claims, including for plastics; apparel and other resale markets; eco-certifications

Contact: Aditya Vedantam can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Mike Mingcheng Wei

Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy
Expertise: supply chain management; dynamic pricing; revenue management; strategic consumer behavior; online learning and decision-making; online recommendation systems; assortment optimization; high-dimensional machine learning
Contact: Mike Mingcheng Wei can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
11/2/23
Marion Werner

Professor of Geography

Expertise: global trade; agriculture, food, labor rights and trade; agri-business; development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Phone: 716-645-0475
Email: wernerm@buffalo.edu
9/20/22
Szu-Yin (Jennifer) Wu
Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance
Expertise: corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; shareholder activism; corporate governance; investment management
Contact: Szu-Yin (Jennifer) Wu can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
1/12/24
Jinjun Xiong

Director of the UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Expertise: artificial intelligence; novel AI algorithms for computer vision, natural language processing and speech processing; optimizing software and hardware for AI
Phone: 716-645-4760
Email: jinjun@buffalo.edu
9/20/22
Sunyee Yoon
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Expertise: social status and mobility; socially responsible consumption; products that promote animal welfare; consumer behavior
Contact: Sunyee Yoon can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
9/20/22
Larry Zielinski
Executive in Residence for Health Care Administration in the School of Management

Expertise: business and economics of health care; health care delivery, innovation and reforms; health insurance reimbursement models
Contact: Larry Zielinski can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.