Alumni of the Program

Alumni Information by Major

The following listing includes all the graduates from our program, which began in 1977.  The proportion of graduates who go into college teaching has steadily increased over the years.

 

Accounting Alumni

Name: Alali, Fatima
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2005/October
Thesis Title: Earnings Management and Capital Ratio Management by Different Types of Banks before and after No. 114
Placement: Assistant Professor at New York Institute of Technology.
Name: Alexander-Smith, Dorothy 
Advisor: Mensah, Yaw
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Two Essays in Financial Accounting
Placement: Visiting Instructor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey.
Name: Anakwe, Bridget
Advisor: Miranti, Paul
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Analysis of Factors Associated with Tax/Consulting Service Litigation Against Accounting Firms
Placement: Assistant Professor at Delaware State University.
Name: Arnold, Lizzie
Advisor: Sudit, Ephraim
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Jenkins’ Committee Recommendations, SOX, and the Enhanced Business Reporting Consortium (EBRC) Proposed Framework in Relation to Corporate Malfeasance.
Placement: Assistant Professor at The Citadel in South Carolina.
Name: Boyas, Elise
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 1991/January
Thesis Title: Indentification and Examination of Factors Behind Corporate In-Substance Defeasance of Debt.
Placement: Initially an Adjunct Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently writing questions for CMA exam.
Name: Callen, Mindy
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 1999/January
Thesis Title: Time Series Tests of the Ohlson Model
Placement: Visiting Lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Name: Chang, Chingfu
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 1999/October
Thesis Title: Determinants of Capital Structure and Management Compensation: The Partial Least Squares Approach
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
Name: Collier, Deirdre
Advisor: Miranti, Paul
Graduation Date: 2009/May
Thesis Title: Objectivity and Advocacy: Probability Theory and Capital Costing at the Bell System, 1913-1941.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Coville, Timothy
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: SOX Generated Changes in Board Composition: Have They Mattered?
Placement: Assistant Professor at St. John's University in New York.
Name: DeBoskey, David
Advisor: Gillett, Peter
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: Corporate Transparency: Key Factors and Their Impact on US Firms
Placement: Assistant Professor at San Diego State University in California.
Name: DiSalvio, Joan
Advisor: Gordon, Elizabeth
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: An Examination of a Firm's Use of a Short Term Succession Plan Using an Interim CEO to Facilitate CEO Turnover 
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey.
Name: Dorata, Nina
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2003/May
Thesis Title: The Impact of Post-Acquisition on Bid Premium in the Market for Corporate Acquisitions
Placement: Associate Professor at St. John's University in New York.
Name: Du, Hui
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: Real Time Demand - Monitoring and Pricing for Online Transactions
Placement: Assistant Professor at Bryant College in Rhode Island.
Name: Ebrahim, Ahmed
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Effectiveness of Corporate Governance, Institutional Ownership, and Audit Quality as Monitoring Devices of Earnings Management
Placement: Assistant Professor State Univesity of New York – New Paltz.
Name: El-Hashash, Hadeya
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 1993/May
Thesis Title: The Association Between Firm Characteristics and Executive Compensation Schemes and the Effect of Adoption of Such Schemes on Firm Performance
Placement: Initially a Professor at Tanta University in Egypt. Currently a professor in Saudi Arabia.
Name: Giles, Jill
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1998/October
Thesis Title: Evidence on the Relation Between Audit Committee Characteristics and the Quality of Financial Reporting.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University, New Jersey.
Name: Henry, Elaine
Advisor: Shafer, Glenn
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Are Investors Influenced by How Earnings Press Releases are Written?
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Miami.
Name: Hossain, Mohammed (David)
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Triocracy and the Dynamics of Standard Setting: A Comparative Study of FASB's Deliberation Process on SFAS No. 133
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State University in Los Angeles, CA.
Name: Hughes, Peggy
Advisor: Sudit, Ephraim
Graduation Date: 1999/October
Thesis Title: Framing Effect on Domestic Transfer Pricing Decisions
Placement: Director/ Team Leader at Guaranteed Price Contracting, Pfizer, Inc., New York.
Name: Jeffers-Gooden, Agatha
Advisor: Hasan, Iftekhar
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: The Impact of Organizational Form on Performance and Risk: The Spanish Banking Experience
Placement: Director of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Nevis Island
Name: Jones, Richard
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2001/January
Thesis Title: An Inquiry into the Effects of Audit Staff Regulating Mechanisms on Auditor Task Related Processing in a Risk Assessment Decision.
Placement: Associate Professor at Hofstra University in New York.
Name: Kang, Pyung Kyung
Advisor: Palmon, Dan 
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: The Impact of the Financial Press on Accruals Anomaly and Earnings Management.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Michigan.
Name: Khalifa, Zakaa
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: The Impact of the Financial Condition of the Firm on Auditors' Materiality/Disclosure Judgments: An Experimental Study
Placement: Professor at Tanta University in Egypt.
Name: Kleinman, Gary
Advisor: Hoffman, L. Richard
Graduation Date: 1992/January
Thesis Title: Constructing the Auditor and Accountant
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Name: Lee, Picheng
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: Earnings Management at Different Stages of Financial Distress.
Placement: Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Li, Chunyan
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: An Analysis of the Impact of International Accounting Standards
Placement: Assistant Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Lin, Beixin
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Value Relevance of Restructuring Charges
Placement: Associate Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Name: Lynch, Paul
Advisor: Govindaraj, Suresh
Graduation Date: 2008/January
Thesis Title: An Empirical Examination of the Association Between Auditor Change Events and Stock Prices
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fordham University in New York.
Name: Medinets, Ann
Advisor: Sudit, Ephraim
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Determinants of School Effectiveness and Student Satisfaction in Colleges and Universities
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Na, Young
Advisor: Sanella, Alex
Graduation Date: 1993/May
Thesis Title: Stock Market Reaction to FASB No. 106: The Disclosure of Postretirement Benefit Costs
Placement: Assistant Professor at Chung-Ang University in Korea.
Name: Palas, Rimona
Advisor: Varsarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: The Expectation Gap as Witnessed in the Courtroom
Placement: Teaching at College of Management in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Name: Petra, Steven
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: The Effects of Governance Structure and Ownership Structure on the Informativeness of Earnings
Placement: Associate Professor at Hofstra University in New York.
Name: Peytcheva, Marietta
Advisor: Gillett, Peter
Graduation Date: 2008/May
Thesis Title: Acountability, Reputation Costs, and Opportunistic Auditor Behavior
Placement: Assistant Professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Name: Pinto, Jo Ann
Advisor: Sanella, Alex
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: How Comprehensive is Comprehensive Income? The Value Relevance of Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments
Placement: Assistant Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey.
Name: Qureshi, Anique
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Auditor Judgement in the Evaluation of Contingent Legal Liabilities
Placement: Professor at Queens College in New York.
Name: Russo, Joseph
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Auditor Problem Solving Behavior in an Unfamiliar Task Situation
Placement: Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Ryu, Tae-Ghil
Advisor: Mensah, Yaw
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 96, "Accounting for Income Taxes"
Placement: Professor at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado.
Name: Sen, Kaustav
Advisor: Srinidhi, Bin
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: Mechanism Design in Audit Settings
Placement: Assistant Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Shalaby, Afaf
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald
Graduation Date: 1996/October
Thesis Title: Accounting for Majority-Owned Finance Subsidiaries Under SFAS No. 94: Motivations and Consequences
Placement: Assistant Professor at Jersey City University in New Jersey.
Name: Shim, Eun Sup
Advisor: Sudit, Fred
Graduation Date: 1993/January
Thesis Title: Cost Management and Activity Based Cost Allocation in Advanced Manufacturing Environment
Placement: Associate Professor at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
Name: Strauss, Ronald 
Advisor: Santoro, Michael 
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Business Ethics and Accounting Information in Light of the Financial Crisis of 2008
Placement: Assistant Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey.
Name: Tong, Naqiong
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2009/October
Thesis Title: Guidance, Guidance and Guidance - the Discountinuing and Restarting Phenomenon of Quarterly Earnings Guidance
Placement: Assistant Professor at Peking University.
Name: Tyska, Claudia
Advisor: Miranti, Paul
Graduation Date: 2000/ January
Thesis Title: Participatory regulation
Placement: Assistant Professor at Bloomfield College, New Jersey
Name: Uddin, Nancy
Advisor: Gillett, Peter
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: The application of the reasoned action model to fraudulent financial statements, with extension.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Monmouth University
Name: Vijayan, Anil
Advisor: Mensah,Yaw
Graduation Date: 1993/May
Thesis Title: Credit Loss Treatment in FAS #105 and Risk Based Capital: An Empirical Analysis of its Information Content in a Bank's Credit Rating
Placement: Senior Manager at Arthur Andersen in New York.
Name: Wai, Miranda
Advisor: Harstad, Ronald
Graduation Date: 2003/May
Thesis Title: Fair Representation of Purchased Goodwill: An Analysis of the Underlying Nature of Acquisition Processes
Placement: Instructor at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Name: Wang, Ting
Advisor: Srinidhi, Bin
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: Empirical Examination of the Effects of Industrial Aggregation and Sales Backlog on the Usefulness of Production and Inventory Disclosures in Predicting Future Sales.
Placement: Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Name: Wans, Nader
Advisor: Sarath, Bharat
Graduation Date: 2012/ May
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Material Weakness Disclosures, Restatement Announcements, and Auditor's Litigation Risk.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Tanta University in Egypt.
Name: Xu, Wei
Advisor: Jaggi, Bikki
Graduation Date: 2007/January
Thesis Title: Value Relevance of Asset Write-Offs/Write-Downs and Effectiveness of FASB Pronouncements (SFAS #121, #142, #144).
Placement: Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Yang, Rong
Advisor: Mensah, Yaw
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: The Effect of the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure on Analyst Forecast Attributes and Related Market Reactions
Placement: Assistant Professor SUNY Brockport, New York
Name: Yezegel, Ari
Advisor: Palmon, Dan
Graduation Date: 2009/May
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Stock Recommendations
Placement: Assistant Professor at Bentley University in Massachusetts.

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AIS Alumni

Name: Badua, Francisco
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2005/October
Thesis Title: Tracing the Development of Accounting Thought with Taxonomic and Citation Analysis
Placement: Assistant Professor at McNeese State University in Louisiana.
Name: Chakraborty, Vasundhara 
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Using Text Analytic Techniques for Accounting Research 
Placement: Assistant Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Name: Chan, David
Advisor: Kogan, Alexander
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: The Relationship between an Independent Audit and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from Small Private Commercial Banks
Placement: Assistant Professor at St. John's University in New York.
Name: Cong, Yu
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Relationship Between the Income Statement Presentation Format and the Company of Characteristics: An Exploratory Study of the Comparability of the Financial Statement Presentation Format
Placement: Assistant Professor at Wichita State University in Kansas.
Name: Hoitash, Ran
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Information Transfer in Analytical Procedures: A Simulated Industry Knowledge-Management Approach
Placement: Assistant Professor at Bentley University in Massachusetts.
Name: Hoitash, Udi
Advisor: Sudit, Ephraim
Graduation Date: 2008/May
Thesis Title: The Effects of Social Ties and Internal Busyness of Independent Committee Members on the Advising Role of Boards of Directors
Placement: Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Name: Jiang, Wei
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Intelligent Day Trading Agent - A Natural Language Processing Approach to Financial Information Analysis
Placement: Assistant Professor at State University of New York - Old Westbury.
Name: Kim, Yong Bum 
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Continuous Monitoring: Macro- and Micro-level Control 
Placement: Assistant Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Name: Natovich, Joseph
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Reasoning About Internal Controls and Fraud: The A1 Planning Approach to Modeling the Business Process
Placement: Head of the Computer Risk Management group at Arthur Anderson in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Name: Romero, Silvia
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: Testing Human Factor Tailored Information Reports for Individuals with Different Cognitive Characteristics
Placement: Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Name: Thiprungsri, Sutapat
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2012/January
Thesis Title: Cluster Analysis for Anomaly Detection in Accounting Data
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
Name: Wu, Jia
Advisor: Vasarhelyi, Miklos
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: Test of Details and Analytical Procedures in Continuous Auditing
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

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CIS Alumni

Name: Anderson, William
Advisor: Hiltz, S. Roxanne
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: Cultural Values and Communication Mode: A Study of Culturally Homogeneous and culturally Heterogeneous Groups
Placement: Associate V.P. for Enrollment Services at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Bahgat, Ahmed
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 1986/October
Thesis Title: A Decision Support System for Zero-Base Capital Budgeting: A Case Study
Placement: Vice President, African Development Bank.
Name: Balasubramanian, Venkatraman
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 1998/January
Thesis Title: Supporting the User Interface Design Process with Hypertext
Placement: President/CEO of E-Papyrus, Inc in New Jersey.
Name: Benbunan-Fich, Raquel
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: Effects of Computer-Mediated Communication Systems on Learning, Performance and Satisfaction: A Comparison of Groups and Individuals Solving Ethical Scenarios
Placement: Assistant Professor at Baruch College in New York.
Name: Chiu, Chao-Min
Advisor: Bieber, Michael
Graduation Date: 1997/October
Thesis Title: Fusing the World Wide Web and the Open Hypermedia System Technologies
Placement: Associate Professor in the Department of Information Management at National Central University, Tiawan, ROC.
Name: Cho, Yooncheong
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: The Effects of Post-Purchase Evaluation Factors on Online vs. In-Store Customer Complaining Behavior
Placement: Assistant Professor at Hawaii Pacific University.
Name: Dufner, Donna
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1995/May
Thesis Title: Effects of Group Support (Listing and Voting Tools) and Sequential Procedures on Group Decision Making Using Asynchronous Computer Conferences
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.
Name: Fjermestad, Jerry
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: Group Strategic Decision Making in a Computer Mediated-Communications Environment: A Comparison of Dialectical Inquiry and Constructive Consensus Approaches
Placement: Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Hrechak, Andrew
Advisor: McHugh, James
Graduation Date: 1988/October
Thesis Title: Police Automation: Automated Fingerprint Recognition.
Placement: Coordinator for Student Advisement for the Computer Sciences department at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Hsu, Enrico
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1992/January
Thesis Title: Management Games for Management Education: A Case Study.
Placement: Retired from his faculty position at Ramapo College in New Jersey.
Name: Hsu, Jeffrey
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: The Learning and Use of Markup Languages: An Experimental Investigation of the Impacts of User Interface, Help System, and User Background on Learning a Markup Language.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Kim, Youngjin
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 1996/October
Thesis Title: Coordination in Distributed Group Support Systems: Effects of Parallel vs. Sequential Coordination and Leader Role
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fordham University in New York.
Name: Lee, Chul-Ho
Advisor: Scher, Julian
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: The Development of a Generalized Analysis Model and DSS for Assembly Line Design and Operation
Name: Méndez, Francis
Advisor: Jones, Douglas
Graduation Date: 2005/October
Thesis Title: Using Discrete Multivariate MCMC Bayesian Methods for Change Detection and Disclosure Control
Placement: Assistant Professor, CIS & Quantitative Methods, Texas State University - San Marcos
Name: Mohtashami, Mojgan
Advisors: Deek, Fadi and Im, Il
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: The Antecedents and Impacts of Information Processing Effectiveness in Inter-Organizational Collaborative Software Development
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Ocker, Rosalie
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1995/October
Thesis Title: Requirements Definition using a Distributed Asynchronous GSS System Experimental Results on Quality, Creativity, and Satisfaction
Placement: Assistant Professor at Temple University in Pennsylvannia.
Name: Olsen, George
Advisor: Scher, Julian
Graduation Date: 1997/October
Thesis Title: A System Safety Simulation Game
Placement: Coordinator of Distance Leaning & Extension Program CCS at New Jersey Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
Name: Perez-Alvarez, Cesar
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Coordination in Group Support Systems: Dealing with Uncertainty via Standardization of Processes vs. Standardization of Outcomes
Placement: Assistant Professor at William Patterson University in New Jersey.
Name: Rana, Ajaz Ur Rehman
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 1995/May
Thesis Title: Peer Review Process and Group Support Systems: Theory Development and Experimental Validation
Placement: Assistant Professor at Temple University in Pennsylvannia.
Name: Rao, Gururajan
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Two Hypermedia Approaches to Facilitate Development of Diagnostic Decision-Making Learning Modules Using MEDICALWARE: Implications for Group Decision Support
Placement: President, Quantum Enterprises, Inc in New Jersey.
Name: Rao, Usha
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 1991/ May
Thesis Title: Hypertext Functionality: A Theoretical Framework
Placement: Position at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Name: Spencer, David
Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne
Graduation Date: 2002/October
Thesis Title: A Field Study of Use of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication in Asynchronous Learning Networks
Placement: Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Name: Worrell, Malcolm
Advisor: Turoff, Murray
Graduation Date: 1995/January
Thesis Title: Using a Simulation Game and a Computer Mediated Conferencing System to Improve Learning in Accounting Information Systems and Auditing: A Field Study
Placement: Was the Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs at New Jersey Institute of Technology at the time of his passing.
Name: Wu, Ta-Peng
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 2000/May
Thesis Title: An Empirical Comparison of Alternative Option Pricing Models: Parametric vs. Nonparametric Approach.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Yoo, Joonhee
Advisor: Bieber, Michael
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Relationship Analysis
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Zhao, Luyin
Advisor: Deek, Fadi
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Exploratory Inspection - User-based Learning Model for Improving Open Source Software Usability
Placement: Researcher at Philips North America

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Finance Alumni

Name: Agarwal, Naman
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 1997/January
Thesis Title: Equity Carve-Outs: An Empirical Analysis
Placement: Senior Financial Analyst for the New York Blood Center.
Name: Cangemi, Robert
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Private Debt in Corporation Finance
Placement: Has a position at Standards & Poors.
Name: Chen, Hong-Yi
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Momentum Strategies, Dividend Policy, and Asset Pricing Test
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Central University in Taiwan.
Name: Cheng, Xiaolin
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: Asset Pricing of Credit Risk
Placement: Has a position at Moody's Investment.
Name: Chien, Chin-Chen
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 1992/October
Thesis Title: Alternative Methods for the Estimation of Earnings and Dividends Announcement Effects: Review, Integration, and Extension
Placement: Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting at the National Cheng-Kuang University in Taiwan. (National Cheng-Kuang University is ranked as the third best university in Taiwan).
Name: Chiou, Wan-Jiun
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Analysis of International Stock Prices, Portfolios, and Asset Pricing
Placement: Associate Professor at Shippensburg University in Pennslyvania.
Name: Dhanda, Anuj
Advisor: Whitcomb, David
Graduation Date: 1990/May
Thesis Title: The January Effect: A Market Microstructure Perspective
Placement: Corporate Senior Vice President, PNC Bank.
Name: Dong, Gang
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: Essays in Banking and Finance: Securitization, Systemic Risk and Healthcare Reform
Placement: Assistant Professor at Columbia University- Mailman School of Public Health.
Name: Du, Brian
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: An Examination of Rollover Risk and the Credit Crisis
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State University-East Bay.
Name: Ebeid, Said
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1985/May
Thesis Title: Ownership Structure, Agency Costs and Departure form Value Maximization
Placement: Resides in Egypt.
Name: Gu, Ming
Advisor: Wu, Yangru
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: Essays on Financial Anomalies
Placement: Assistant Professor at Renmin University of China.
Name: Hertz, Sarah
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Implications of Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefit (OPRB) Recognition Biases on Leverage Ratio Components
Placement: Assistant Professor at SUNY - Empire State College.
Name: Hu, Chengru
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: The Evaluation of New Products: An Event Study and a Real Option Approach
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Hwang, Dar-Yeh
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 1991/October
Thesis Title: Alternative Pricing Models for Estimating FDIC Deposit Insurance Premiums: Theory and Empirical Studies
Placement: Professor in the Department of Finance at the National Taiwan University. (Ranked as the leading university in Taiwan).
Name: Imerman, Michael
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw and Sopranzetti, Ben
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Structural Credit Risk Models in Banking with Applications to the Financial Crisis
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate and member of the Financial Econometrics Lab at Princeton University.
Name: Kang, SungJune
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Determinants of the Leasing Decision: Theory and Empirical Evidence.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Handong University's School of Management & Economics in Korea.
Name: Katsabekis, Dimitrios
Advisor: Whitcomb, David
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: Mergers & Acquisitions: Market Efficiency in the Presence of "Informed Outsider" Trading
Placement: Position in Greece.
Name: Kim, Eun-Seok
Advisor: Hardouvelis
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: Margin Requirements and the Behavior of Hedgers and Speculators in Metal Futures Markets
Placement: Position in Korea.
Name: Kim, Tae-Nyun
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Two Essays on Corporate Finance
Placement: Assistant Professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
Name: Kim, Yu Kyung
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: Information Effects of Corporate Debt Offerings and Dividend Changes: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Placement: Position at the Korean Stock Exchange.
Name: Kohn, Jennifer
Advisor: Patrick, Robert
Graduation Date: 2009/May
Thesis Title: A Dynamic Demand for Medical Care
Placement: Assistant Professor at Drew University in New Jersey.
Name: Lai, Zhi-Hong
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: The Prepayment of Home Equity Loans: An Empirical Study Based on Loan-Level Data
Placement: Position at the Controller of Currency office in Washington, D.C.
Name: Lee, Han-Hsing
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Two Essays in Financial Economics: Essay I. Empirical Performance of the Constant Elasticity Variance Option Pricing Model; Essay II. Default Prediction of Alternative Structural Credit Risk Models and Implications of Default Barriers
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
Name: Lee,Wonil
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: Cross-Sectional Determinants of Convertible Debt Issues of the U.S. and Japanese Firms
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan
Name: Li, Feng
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Market Reaction to Earning Forecast Revisions; An Intraday Anaylsis
Placement: Statistician at Capital One Bank in Virginia.
Name: Li, Li
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: Alternative Models for Mutual Fund Performance Evaluation: Theory and Evidence
Placement: Derivatives Trader at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York City.
Name: Lillaney, Sanjay
Advisor: Palmon, Oded
Graduation Date: 1994/May
Thesis Title: Asset Backed Securities: Theory and Evidence
Placement: Corporate position in California.
Name: Lin, Hsuan-Chu
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Asset Backed Securities: Theory and Evidence
Placement: Assistant Professor at Chung-Kung University in Taiwan.
Name: Lin, Jane-Raung
Advisor: Hasan, Iftekhar
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: Earning Management and Post-Listing Anomaly
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Chung-Cheng University in Taiwan.
Name: Liu, Bo
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Two essays in Financial Economics, I. Functional Forms and Pricing of Country Funds, II. Inflation, the Fisher Equation, and Term Structure Model of Inflation Risk Premia: Theory and Evidence from TIPS
Placement: Position at Fitch Ratings Inc.
Name: Lo, Te-Chien
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: Two Theories on Information Asymmetry in Finance
Placement: Assistant Professor at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan
Name: Liu, Xiaowei
Advisor: Wu, Yangru
Graduation Date: 2007/January
Thesis Title: An Emperical Study on Evidence and Sources of International Momentum.
Placement: Assistant Professor at St. Ambose Unviversity in Iowa
Name: Liu-Avis, Yu-Jung
Advisor: Lee, C. F.
Graduation Date: 1995/October
Thesis Title: Three Alternative Term Structure of Interest Rates Models for Testing Term Point Estimation Hypotheses
Placement: Associate Professor at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York
Name: Longo, John
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 1995/October
Thesis Title: Selecting Superior Securities: Using Discriminant Analysis and Neural Networks to Differentiate Between 'Winner' and 'Loser' Stocks
Placement: President/Managing Principal for Cyborg Capital Management, LLC in New Jersey
Name: Mahajan, Lal
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1994/October
Thesis Title: Announcement Effects of Convertible and Straight Debt Issues on Relative Stock Prices.
Placement: Associate Professor at Monmouth College in New Jersey
Name: Manley, John
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Cross Sectional Determinants of the Merger Premium.
Placement: Associate Professor at Iona College in New York
Name: Mariola, Eleni
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: Determinants of the Choice of Financial Instruments: An Empirical Investigation.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Iona College in New York
Name: Mezrin, Vadim
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Determinants of the Choice of Financial Instruments: An Empirical Investigation.
Placement: Position at Fitch Ratings Inc.
Name: Moore, Mark
Advisor: Lee, C.F.
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: Intangible Asset Valuation using the Feltham-Ohlson Framework and Real Option Analysis: Theory and Empirical Evidence.
Placement: Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia
Name: Naik, Kiran
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1991/October
Thesis Title: Stock Dividends and Cash Dividends as Signals of Firm Value
Placement: Holds a position at General Electric
Name: Pagano, Michael
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1999/January
Thesis Title: An Empirical Investigation of the Rationales for Risk-taking and Risk-management Behavior in the U.S. Banking Industry
Placement: Assistant Professor at Baruch College in New York
Name: Panda, Durga
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw
Graduation Date: 2010/May
Thesis Title: Risk-Adjusted Information Content in Option Prices
Placement: Adjuct Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Name: Pomeranets, Anna 
Advisor: Weaver, Dan 
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Two Exogenous Issues Related to Market Quality 
Placement: Position at Bank of Canada
Name: Porter, Robert
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Regulatory Risk Management inCommercial Banking: An Empirical Investigation of Agency Theory
Placement: Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University
Name: Qi, Yaxuan
Advisor: Wu, Yangru
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Essays on Household Finance and Asset Pricing
Placement: Assistant Professor at Concordia University - Montreal, Canada.
Name: Reisel, Natalia
Advisor: Ravid, S. Abraham
Graduation Date: 2005/January
Thesis Title: Three Essays in Corporate Finance: 1) An Analysis of Alliances in the Movie Industry; 2) Rating Process & Notching Policy; 3) On the Value of Covenants: An Empirical Investigation of Public Bonds
Placement: Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist Univeristy.
Name: Rosenblatt, Eric
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 1994/October
Thesis Title: Three Interrelated Papers on the Subject of Residential Mortgages
Placement: Vice President at Fannie Mae.
Name: Roy, Lynn
Advisor: Brick, Ivan
Graduation Date: 1994/October
Thesis Title: Voluntary Corporate Asset Sales: Sources of Wealth Gains to Acquiring and Divesting Firms' Shareholders
Placement: Position in California.
Name: Schuh, Joseph
Advisor: Crew, Michael
Graduation Date: 2000/ January
Thesis Title: Pension Regulation
Placement: Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Name: Sheth, Arnav
Advisor: Palmon, Oded and Shepp, Larry
Graduation Date: 2007/ October
Thesis Title: Optimal Operating Strategies Under Stochastic Cash Flow
Placement: Lecturer at University of California - Berkeley.
Name: Shih, Wei-Kang
Advisor: Govindaraj, Suresh and Lee, Cheng-Few
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: Three Essays on Firm Fundamentals and Asset Pricing
Placement: Bates White Economic Consulting in Washington, DC.
Name: Sverdlove, Ronald
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw and Ravid, S. Abraham
Graduation Date: 2008/January
Thesis Title: Essays in the Economics of Fixed Income Securities
Placement: Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Name: Tsai, Hui-Ju
Advisor: Wu, Yangru
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: Essays on Optimal Portfolio Decision for Long-term Investors.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Washington College in Maryland
Name: Wang, Chia-Jane
Advisor: Brick, Ivan and Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: CEO Compensation, Leverage and Corporate Board, and their Joint Impact on Firm Performance
Placement: Assistant Professor at Manhattan University in Riverdale NY.
Name: Wang, Jun
Advisor: Wu, Yangru
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: An Empirical Study of Momentum & Reversal in U.S. Equity Market
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Melbourne in Australia.
Name: Wang, Xiaoli
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Entrepreneur Spirit and Asset Allocation From a Risk Perspective
Placement: Position at Bear Stearns.
Name: Weaver, Daniel
Advisor: Lawrence Fisher
Graduation Date: 1991/May
Thesis Title: Sources of Short-Term Errors in the Relative Prices of Common Stocks
Placement: Associate Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Name: Wu, Wei
Advisor: Shafer, Glenn
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: A Study of Autocorrelations and Other Lead-Lag Effects Using Game-Theoretic Efficient Market Hypotheses
Placement: Assistant Professor at Willamette University in Oregon.
Name: Yamoah, David
Advisor: Lawrence Fisher
Graduation Date: 1990/May
Thesis Title: The Effects of Call Provisions on Government Bond Prices
Placement: Professor and Associate Dean at Kean University in New Jersey.
Name: Yu, Wei
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Two Essays on Subprime Mortgage Lending
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.
Name: Zhang, Jingfeng
Advisor: Long, Michael
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: An Empirical Test for the Theoretical Basis of the Size Factor in the Fama-French Three-Factor Framework.
Placement: Senior Quantitative Analyst for Raidan Guaranty Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Name: Zheng, Yudan
Advisor: Palia, Darius
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Corporate Governance and Firm Performance.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Long Island University - Brooklyn.

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Information Technology Alumni

Name: Adiwijaya, Igg
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Change Detection to Data and Schema in Semi Structured Documents.
Placement: Chief Technology Office at Advan Technologies Inc. in New York.
Name: Cho, June-Suh
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: Recognition of Partially Occluded Objects in Content-Based Image Retrieval.
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Foreign Studies in Korea.
Name: Chun, Soon Ae
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2003/May
Thesis Title: Decentralized Management of Dynamic and Customized Workflows
Placement: Assistant Professor at CUNY-Staten Island in New York.
Name: Gangopadhyay, Arrya
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 1993/May
Thesis Title: Using Conceptual Dependencies for Database Design and Query Processing in a CIM Environment
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland.
Name: Gomaa, Ahmed
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Dynamic Manifestation of Composite Multimedia Objects to Archive Universal Access.
Placement: President of imediastreams.com.
Name: Guo, Dihua
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: Semantic-Based High Resolution Remote Sensing Image Retrieval.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Guo, Qi
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay and Vaidya, Jaideep
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: The Role Mining Problems: A Formal Approach.
Placement: Oracle Database Administrator at Bed Bath & Beyond.
Name: He, Xiaoyun
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Vaidya, Jaideep
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Privacy Preserving Analysis of Graph Structured Data.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Kean University in New Jersey.
Name: Holowczak, Richard
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: Extractors for Digital Library Objects.
Placement: Associate Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Name: Huang, Wei-Kuang
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: Incorporating Security into Workflow Management Systems.
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut.
Name: Janeja, Vandana
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Anomaly Detection in Heterogeneouos Datasets
Placement: Asstistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Name: Kim, Dong Ho
Advisor: Bieber, Michael
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: A Learning-Based Model in Clickstream-Based Collaborative Filtering
Placement: Post Doctoral Research at NJIT
Name: Kong, Su
Advisor: Kendall, Kenneth
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Agile Software Development Methodology: Effects on Perceived Software Quality and the Cultural Context for Organizational Adoption
Placement: Assistant Professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania
Name: Levina, Tatsiana
Advisor: Shafer, Glenn
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Using the Aggregating Algorithm for Portfolio Selection
Placement: Assistant Professor at Queens College in Kingston, Ontario.
Name: Lu, Haibing
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay and Vaidya, Jaideep
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Boolean Matrix Decomposition with Extensions: Application to Role Mining.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University in California.
Name: Namn, Su
Advisor: Harel, Arie
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Bounds and Some Properties of Performance Measures in Closed
Queueing Models of Telecommunication Networks
Placement: Position in Korea.
Name: Paliwal, Aabhas
Advisor: Adan, Nabil
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Semantic based Discovery of Web Services and Orchestration of Web Service Process
Placement: Senior Technical Consultant at Mindlance Life Sciences in Edison, NJ.
Name: Qin, Li
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Change Detection & Management for the Semantic Web.
Placement: Associate Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Shin, Heechang
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay and Vaidya, Jaideep
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: Ensuring Security and Privacy in a Personalized Mobile Environment.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Iona College in New York.
Name: Subramanian, Ramesh
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: Object-Oriented Modeling and Intelligent Query Processing in Spatial Databases
Placement: Gabriel Ferrucci Endowed Professor at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
Name: Tewari, Rajiv
Advisor: Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 1990/May
Thesis Title: Robustness in Replicated Databases
Placement: Initially an Associate Professor at Temple University, currently unknown.
Name: Warner, Janice
Advisor: Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Secure Resource Sharing in Dynamic Ad-Hoc Collaborations
Placement: Assistant Professor Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.
Name: Youssef-Mohamed, Mahmoud
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2005/May
Thesis Title: Semantically Enhanced and Efficient Location Services for Preserving Mobile Consumer's Privacy.
Placement: Assistant Professor - E-Commerce Department College of Management and Technology of Egypt Arab Academy for Sceince and Technology.
Name: Yu, Songmei
Advisor: Adam, Nabil and Atluri, Vijay
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Efficient Data Management in Spatial Data Warehouses.
Placement: Corporate Postdoc sponsored by NJ Technology Program
Name: Zhou, Wenjun
Advisor: Xiong, Hui
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: Correlation Analysis: From Computational Hardness to Practical Success.
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

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International Business Alumni

Name: Ampadu-Nyarkoh, Kwaku
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: The Geography of Knowledge Sourcing by Multinational Corporation Subsidiaries, with Special Reference to the Pharmaceutical Industry.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Berkeley College in New Jersey.
Name: Bansal, Sangeeta
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2001/January
Thesis Title: Organizational Mode Choice in International Container Shipping: An Analysis of Alternative Forms.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Barnard, Helena
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2007/January
Thesis Title: Investment From Less to More Developed Countries as a Mechanism for Capability Upgrading in Developing Country Frims.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Gordon Institute of Business Science at the Univ. of Pretoria in South Africa.
Name: Dilyard, John
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: The Determinants Of Foreign Private Investment In Developing Countries
Placement: Associate Professor and Chairperson at St. Francis College in New York.
Name: Hamalainen, Timo
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: A Systemic Framework of Economic Competitiveness and Growth
Placement: Development Manager at SITRA (Ministry of Trade and Industry) in Finland.
Name: Huang, Shengsheng 
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2012/January
Thesis Title: A Dynamic Model of FDI Spillover: The Role of Competition, Technology Diffusion, and Capability Accumulation.
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Houston-Victoria.
Name: Kim, Changsu
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 2002/January
Thesis Title: The Co-Evolution of Alliance and Technology Networks: Alliances and Interfirm Learning in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Name: Kim, ZuKweon
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: The Comparison of Geographic and Industrial Patterns of Japanese and US Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the 1970's to the 1990's: Toward Convergence?
Placement: Assistant Professor at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
Name: Kundu, Sumit
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1994/May
Thesis Title: Explaining the Globalization of Service Industries: The Case of Multinational Hotels
Placement: Associate Professor at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Name: Laraqui, Saad
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: The Implications of FDI and MNE Activity on the Competitiveness of the Moroccan Manufacturing Sector.
Placement: Associate Professor at University of Maryland University College in Maryland.
Name: Li, Huiping
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 2006/October
Thesis Title: The Accumulation of Technological Capability Within International Joint Ventures in China.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Name: Lin, Jyh-Der
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2000/January
Thesis Title: Sectoral Development, Structural Adjustment and International Business Activities: Case Study of Taiwan's Experience
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Lundan, Sarianna
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Internalization and Environmental Strategy in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Placement: Associate Professor at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
Name: McKaig-Berliner, Alison
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: The Global Sourcing of Competitive Advantages: A Study of Professional Business Services.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Narula, Rajneesh
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: An Examination of the Evolution and Interdependence of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Structure: The Case of Industrialized Countries
Placement: Professor at the University of Reading.
Name: Pak, Yong Suh
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Determinants of International Entry Modes of US Franchisers: A Knowledge-based Framework
Placement: Assistant Professor in Korea.
Name: Pore, Anand
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 2010/January
Thesis Title: Determinants of the Mode of Offshoring of Services by Large US Corporations: Role of Service Characteristics, Firm's Capabilities, Strategic Motives, and Concerns.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Emporia State University in Kansas.
Name: Qiu, Ranfeng
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: The Role of General Purpose Technology in the Restructuring of International Innovation Network and Technological Diversification Strategy of Multinational Corporations.
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State University-San Bernardino.
Name: Ra, Wonchan
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 1999/ May
Thesis Title: Compensation Structure and Negotiations In International Strategic Alliances.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Korea.
Name: Thakur, Pooja
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 2010/ May
Thesis Title: The Offshoring and Outsourcing of Core Corporate Activities: The global relocation of pharmaceutical industry clinical trials.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.
Name: Torres-Baumgarten, Gladys
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: The Interplay of Local, Regional, And Global Approaches to Advertising: Experiences in Latin America
Placement: Assistant Professor at Hofstra University in New York.
Name: Vyas, Bindu
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: Foreign Direct Investments from Developing Economies in the United States: Magnitude, Characteristics, Motives and Location Choice of Manufacturing Plants.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Kings College in Pennsylvania.
Name: Wallace, Lorna
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1998/October
Thesis Title: Foreign Direct Investment into the State of New Jersey
Placement: Initially a Manager at Bellcore in New Jersey, currently unknown at this time.
Name: Wood, Dermod
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: Patterns of Internationalization of US Management Consultants.
Placement: Principal of Dermod Wood Associates.
Name: Woodley, James
Advisor: Contractor, Farok
Graduation Date: 2002/October
Thesis Title: Control Over Inputs in International Strategic Alliances: The Case of the U.S. Packaged Software Industry
Placement: Instructor, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Name: Wymbs, Clifford
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 1999/May
Thesis Title: Transnational Investment in the Competitive Transition of Previously Regulated Industries
Placement: Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Name: Yakova, Nevena
Advisor: Dunning, John
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Foreign Direct Investment as a Factor in Transition: A Study of Central and Eastern European Countries.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Zhang, Feng
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: The Emerging Innovators in the Technological Knowledge Accumulation Networks of Multinational Corporations.
Placement: Assistant Professor at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.

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Management Information Systems Alumni

Name: Abu Hamdieh, Ayman
Advisor: Kendall, Julie
Graduation Date: 2001/October
Thesis Title: Strategic Organizational Web Presence in the Performing Arts: Technical, Aesthetic and Managerial Dimensions of Ecommerce
Placement: Associate Professor at Indiana State University in Indiana.

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Management Science Alumni

Name: Akkucuk, Ulas
Advisor: Carroll, Douglas (Department of Marketing)
Graduation Date: 2004/ October
Thesis Title: Metric Nonlinear Mapping: Approaches Based on Optimizing an Index of Continuity and Applying Classical Metric MDS on Revised Distances.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Name: Berliner Koppel, Nicole
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2000/May
Thesis Title: Lagrangian Relaxation for Curve fitting with Binary Variables: Applications in Educational Testing
Placement: Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Name: Breitfeld, Marc
Advisor: Shanno, David
Graduation Date: 1994/October
Thesis Title: Penalty-Barrier Methods for Nonlinear Programming
Placement: Initially held a position at Daimler Chrysler Aerospace AG in Munich, Germany. Currently is Investment Director & Finance Director at Ad Astra Venture Consult Gmbh in Munich.
Name: Burnetas, Apostolos
Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: On Adaptive Estimation and Control for Markovian Decision Processes
Placement: Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.
Name: Chen, Guangjun
Advisor: Carroll, Douglas (Department of Marketing)
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Metric Two-Way Multidimensional Scaling and Circular Unidimensional Scaling: Mixed Integer Programming Approaches
Placement: Analyst at the City of New York's Office of Management and Budget.
Name: Cheng, Hilary
Advisor: Harel, Arie
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Applications of Order Statistics to Special Cases of Queue Inference Engine and Single Machine Early/Tardy Scheduling Problems
Placement: Associate Professor at Yuan-Ze University in Taiwan.
Name: Chiang, Junn-Yih
Advisor: Jones, Douglas (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Optimal Designs for Simultaneous Item Estimation
Placement: Owner of a company that consults primarily for AT&T.
Name: Edmonds-Little, Jennifer
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Evaluation of Multiple Stage Adaptive Test Designs
Placement: Assistant Professor at Wilkes University in PA.
Name: Elkins, Timothy
Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2003/May
Thesis Title: Multiple Criteria/Multiple Objective and Dynamic Data Envelopment Analysis with the Freight Service Business
Placement: Adjunct Professor at New York University's Stern School of Business in New York.
Name: Fu, Yuhong
Advisor: Rothkopf, Michael
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Common Value Bidding Models with Uncertain Number of Bidders.
Placement: Vice President at Moody's in New York.
Name: Greyserman, Alexander
Advisor: Jones, Douglas (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1996/January
Thesis Title: Hierarchical Bayesian Portfolio Selection Using Gibbs Sampling.
Placement: Portfolio Manager for Mint Investment Management in New York.
Name: Gu, Shanhong
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 1999/ May
Thesis Title: On The Single Hoist Cyclic Scheduling Problem
Placement: Interest Rate Derivatives Researcher at J.P. Morgan Securities in Japan.
Name: Gursoy, Kemal
Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1997/October
Thesis Title: Branch and Bound Methods for Sequentially Choosing Some Among Several Competing Projects
Placement: Assistant Professor at Long Island University in New York.
Name: Jin, Zhiying
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1994/October
Thesis Title: Dual Simplex Methods for Network Flow Problems.
Placement: Position at GTE.
Name: Keresty, Georgia
Advisor: Surkis, Julius/ Fariborz Damanpour
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: A Dynamic Model of Innovation Adoption in Organizations: Individual, Organizational and Contextual Characteristics of the Initiation and Implementation Stages of the Innovation
Placement: Initially was the Director of Quality & Compliance Services at Johnson & Johnson in New Jersey. Currently is the Vice President at Bristol-Myers Squibb in New Jersey.
Name: Lee, Chang Hwan
Advisor: Dogramaci, Ali
Graduation Date: 1993/October
Thesis Title: Deterministic Models for Inventory Control Under Continuous Time-Varying Demand
Placement: Position in Korea.
Name: Lejeune, Miguel
Advisor: Ruszczynski, Andrej (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: A Methodology for Probabilistic Inventory-Production-Distribution Problems
Placement: Assistant Professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Name: Li, Xuan
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1996/January
Thesis Title: Mathematical Programming in Test Assembly
Placement: Position at HNC software Inc.
Name: Liu, Qing
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 1999/October
Thesis Title: On The Robotic Cyclic Scheduling Of M-Stage Flow Lines With Multiple-Part And Time Window Constraints
Placement: Position at AT&T Labs in New Jersey.
Name: Liu, Shuguang
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: On the Intergrated Production, INventory, and Distribution Routing Problem
Placement: Associate Professor at SUNY- New Paltz.
Name: Morehead, Dianne
Advisor: Surkis, Julius & Adam, Nabil
Graduation Date: 1989/October
Thesis Title: Due Date and Priority Assignment Procedures for Multi-Level Assembly Job Shops
Placement: Position at Bell Labs.
Name: Nagendra, Prashanth
Advisor: Das, Suresh
Graduation Date: 1995/January
Thesis Title: MRP-3: An MRP-II Extension Combining Finite Capacity Scheduling & JIT/KANBAN Type Shop Floor Control
Placement: Professor and Chair at Indiana University in Pennsylvania.
Name: Nguyen, Chieu
Advisor: Surkis, Julius
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: Normative Cost Allocation Structures of Power Pools
Placement: Financial Consultant in the Energy field.
Name: Simantiraki, Evangelia
Advisor: Shanno, David
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Interior-Point methods for Linear and Mixed Complementarity Problems
Placement: Position in Greece.
Name: Stawicki, Robert
Advisor: Kenneth Lawrence
Graduation Date: 1993/May
Thesis Title: Multiobjective Optimal and Heuristic Procedure for Solving the Multi-Item, Multi-Plate Printing Plate Layout Problem
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Tang, Chi
Advisor: Abdel-Malek, L.
Graduation Date: 1995/January
Thesis Title: A Framework for Hierarchical Interactive Generation of Cellular Layout
Placement: Senior Research Project Developer/LAN Manager at New Jersey Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
Name: Wang, Zhaobo
Advisor: Jones, Douglas (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1992/October
Thesis Title: The Generation of Standardized Tests Using Integer Programming
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Wu, Ing-Long
Advisor: Jones, Douglas (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1992/October
Thesis Title: Test Construction with Item Matching Procedures
Placement: Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
Name: Xia, Yu
Advisor: Alizadeh, Farid (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2003/October
Thesis Title: Optimization Over Second-Order Cones with Extensions to Symmetric Cone Programming
Placement: Postdoctoral Associate at MacMaster University in Ontario, Canada.
Name: Xu, Yang
Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald D. (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 1998/January
Thesis Title: Dual Simplex Methods for Generalized Network Flow Problems
Placement: Software Engineer at Teltier Technologies in New Jersey.
Name: Zeni, Richard
Advisor: Lawrence, Kenneth
Graduation Date: 2001/October
Thesis Title: Improved Forecast Accuracy in Revenue Management by Unconstraining Demand Estimates from Censored Data.
Placement: Corporate position at US Airways inVirginia.

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Marketing Alumni

Name: Albright, Paul
Advisor: Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 1995/January
Thesis Title: Optimal Sales Compensation Policies Under Uncertainty: Consequences of Matching the Compensation-Risk-Payoff Preference of Industrial Salespersons
Placement: Retired from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Chandrashekaran, Rajesh
Advisor: Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 1994/May
Thesis Title: The Differential Effects of Internal and External Reference Prices: The Moderating Effect of Involvement
Placement: Associate Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Chaturvedi, Anil
Advisor: Carroll, Douglas
Graduation Date: 1993/January
Thesis Title: Brand Equity in Product Differentiation, Product Preference and Product Choice
Placement: Initially a Product Manager at Kraft Foods in Illinois. Currently hold a position at AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Name: Feng, Keran
Advisor: Carroll, Douglas
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: A Stochastic Multidimensional Scaling Model for Analyzing Consumer Preference/Choice Set Data
Placement: Assistant Professor at Alliant International University in California.
Name: Ha, Joseph
Advisor: Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: Industrial Buyer-Seller Long-Term Relationships: A Causal Model Incorporating Antecedent Factors
Placement: Associate Professor at Hawaii Pacific University.
Name: Kohli, Pankaj
Advisor: Arabie, Phipps and Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 2001/January
Thesis Title: Channel Structure and Firm Performance: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Placement: Senior Statistician at Strategic Marketing Corporation in Pennsylvania.
Name: Koku, Paul
Advisor: Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 1994/January
Thesis Title: The Effect of Pre-announcements and External Reference Prices: The Moderating Effect of Involvement
Placement: Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Florida.
Name: Liu, Yuping
Advisor: Shrum, L.J.
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: Interactivity & Its Implications for Consumer Behavior
Placement: Associate Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Name: Minowa, Yuko
Advisor: Choi, Chan
Graduation Date: 1996/October
Thesis Title: Dynamic Duopoly Pricing Strategies in Marketing: Current Issues and Model Developments
Placement: Associate Professor at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
Name: Srinivas, V. K.
Advisor: Arabie, Phipps and Jagpal, Harsharanjeet
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Theory and Modeling of Consumers’ Avice-Seeking Behavior.
Placement: Director, Market Research at Standard & ACY-Poor's.
Name: Taran, Zinaida
Advisor: Arabie, Phipps
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: Competitive Aspects of Brand Value for Passenger Cars: The Inverse Demand Model Analysis
Placement: Associate Professor at St. John Fisher College in New York.

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Organization Management Alumni

Name: Aravind, Deepa
Advisor: Christmann, Petra
Graduation Date: 2008/May
Thesis Title: Variations in implementation of certifiable management practices across certified firms: An examination of the determinants and consequences of ISO 14001 implementation
Placement: Assistant Professor at the City University of New York - College of Staten Island.
Name: Bayster, Philip
Advisor: Ford, Cameron
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: The Impact of Functional Issue Classification on Managerial Decision Making Processes: A Study in the Telecommunications Industry
Placement: Account Manager at BellCore in Cincinatti, OH.
Name: Belkin, Liuba
Advisor: Kurtzberg, Terri
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Emotional Contagion in the Electronic Communication Context in Organizations
Placement: Assistant Professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
Name: Betts, Stephen
Advisor: Somers, Mark
Graduation Date: 2001/October
Thesis Title: An Exploration of Multiple Jobholding (Moonlighting) and an Investigation into the Relationship Between Multiple Jobholding and Work Related Commitment
Placement: Assistant Professor at William Patterson University in New Jersey.
Name: Bierly, Paul
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 1995/January
Thesis Title: Technical Learning and a Dynamic Capabilities Framework of Competitive Strategy: A Study of the US. Pharmaceutical Industry From 1977 to 1991
Placement: Associate Professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Name: Brown, Terrence
Advisor: Kirchhoff, Bruce
Graduation Date: 1996/May
Thesis Title: Resource Orientation, Entrepreneurial Orientation and Growth: How the Perception of Resource Availability Affects Small Firm Growth
Placement: Dean at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship in Sweden.
Name: Chen, Yi-Yu
Advisor: Farris, George
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Effects Of Technology Cycles On Strategic Alliances
Placement: Editorial Assistant, IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management.
Name: Chen, Dong
Advisor: Park, Sam
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Governing for Success: An Examination of Different types of Parent control in International Joint Ventures
Placement: Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.
Name: Choi, Jaepil
Advisor: Chen, Chao
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: A Cross-Cultural Study of Procedural Justice: The Effects of Outcomes, Procedures, and Cultural Values on Procedural Justice Perceptions and Employee Trust in Managers
Placement: Assistant Professor at Hkust Business School in Hong Kong.
Name: Christensen, Edward
Advisor: Bailey, James
Graduation Date: 1997/October
Thesis Title: An Experimental Inquiry into the Effectiveness and Choice of the Library and Internet for Acquiring Company Info
Placement: Associate Dean and Associate Professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Name: Chung, Ken
Advisor: Christmann, Petra
Graduation Date: 2012/May
Thesis Title: Catalytic Events: Environmental Events that Transform Institutions
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State University- East Bay.
Name: Cordero, Rene
Advisor: Farris, George
Graduation Date: 1985/January
Thesis Title: Professional and Managerial Responsibilities Among Different R&D Professionals: Implications of Professional Careers
Placement: Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Crick, Ann
Advisor: Hooijberg, Robert
Graduation Date: 2000/ May
Thesis Title: Preliminary Investigation into the Delivery of Sustained Personalized Service: The Case of All-Inclusive Entertainment Coordinators
Placement: Lecturer, Department of Management Studies, University of West Indies.
Name: De Lia, Emilio 
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy 
Graduation Date: 2011/January
Thesis Title: Complexity Leadership in Industrial Innovation Teams: A Field Study of Leading, Learning and Innovating in Heterogeneous Teams 
Placement: Self-employed in New Jersey.
Name: Danielle Dunne
Advisor: Dougherty, Deborah
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: Inside-Out or Outside-In: Learning and Collaboration in the New Product Development Process in the Bio-Pharmaceuticals Industry
Placement: Assistant Professor at the State Univesity of New York - Binghamton.
Name: Elgamal, Mahmoud
Advisor: Hoffman, L. Richard
Graduation Date: 1989/May
Thesis Title: Leadership Valence, Gender, and Expertness as Factors in Emergent Leadership and Group Performance
Placement: Resides in Egypt.
Name: Gallagher, Scott
Advisor: Park, Seung Ho
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: Alliance Formation and Structure Across Industries: An Examination of Industry Life Cycle Theory
Placement: Assistant Professor at James Madison University in Virginia.
Name: Gopalakrishnan, Shanthi
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 1995/May
Thesis Title: Competitive Strategy-Innovation Strategy Co-alignment and Organization Performance: A Study in the Commercial Banking Industry
Placement: Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Grevesen, Chris
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: The Internationalization of Technological Activity and R&D Performance in Multinational Enterprises
Placement: Senior Professor at DeVry Institute in New Jersey.
Name: Hwang, Yong-sik
Advisor: Park, Sam
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: The Evolution of Alliance Formation: On Organizational Life Cycle Framework
Placement: Assistant Professor at Indian University Kokomo in Indiana..
Name: Kessler, Eric
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 1996/October
Thesis Title: Innovation Speed: An Empirical Analysis of Context, Antecedents, and Outcomes
Placement: Associate Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Kirkman, Dorothy
Advisor: ogilvie, dt
Graduation Date: 2008/May
Thesis Title: Dedicated biotechnology firms in the ivory tower: An examination of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and university collaborations
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Name: Kobeissi, Nada
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 2003/January
Thesis Title: Determinants and Effect of Banks' Community Stakeholder Performance: A Study of Large U.S. Commercial Banks
Placement: Assistant Professor at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.
Name: Koch, Barbl
Advisor: Klein, Jonathan
Graduation Date: 1992/October
Thesis Title: The Roles of Cultural Norms and Group Support in the Safe Performance of Subunits in Potentially Hazardous Organizations
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Lechner, Anat
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy
Graduation Date: 2000/October
Thesis Title: New Knowledge Creation Dynamics in Multidisciplinary Teams: In Search of Innovation Practices
Placement:  Clinical Associate Professor at New York University in New York.
Name: Liao, Hui-Yuan
Advisor: Rotter, Naomi
Graduation Date: 1995/May
Thesis Title: Managerial Expectation and Action: A Cross-Cultural Study of Causal Attribution, its Antecedents and its Consequences
Placement: Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Management at I-Shou University in Taiwan.
Name: Lucas, Leyland
Advisor: ogilvie, dt
Graduation Date: 2002/May
Thesis Title: Best Practices and their Dissemination in the Organization: An Assessment of Organizational Practices Transfer and Integration
Placement: Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at Morgan State University.
Name: McCrea, Elizabeth
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: Aligning Product Development and Business Strategy.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Penn State University, Great Valley, Pennsylvania.
Name: McGill, Joseph
Advisor: Park, Seung Ho
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: The Evolution of Interfirm Collaboration: Strategic Groups and Alliance Formation
Placement: Initially was an Assistant Professor at Caldwell College in New Jersey.   Currently an Associate Professor at Kean University in New Jersey.
Name: Newbert, Scott
Advisor: Kirchhoff, Bruce
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: Creating Value Through Entrepreneurship: A Reconceptualization, Theoretical Extension, and Conceptual Level Empirical Investigation of the Resource-Based View of the Firm.
Placement: Associate Professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Name: Parks-Yancy, Rochelle
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: The Effects of Social Capital Resources on the Careers of Diverse Groups.
Placement: Associate Professor at Texas Southern University in Houston.
Name: Post, Corinne
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy
Graduation Date: 2003/May
Thesis Title: Allocation Favorable Work Contexts in Industrial R&D: The Role of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Family Characteristics, and Organizational Setting
Placement: Assistant Professor at Pace University in New York.
Name: Pothukuchi, Vijay
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: Influence of Cultural Differences on the Performance of Cross-Cultural Joint Ventures
Placement: Manager, IT, Conexant Systems, Inc. in California.
Name: Santoro, Michael
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: Key Factors in Establishing and Sustaining High Intensity Industry - University Technology Relationships
Placement: Associate Professor at Lehigh University's College of Business in Bethlehem, PA.
Name: Saparito, Patrick
Advisor: Chen, Chao
Graduation Date: 2001/May
Thesis Title: Trust's Form and Role in an Inter-Organizational Context: An Examination of Calculus-Based, Knowledge-Based, and Identification-Based Trust in Bank-Small Firm Relationships
Placement: Initially an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire.  Currently an Assistant Professor at Drexel University.
Name: Schiff, Andrew
Advisor: Hoffman, L. Richard
Graduation Date: 1993/January
Thesis Title: An Exploration of the Use of Financial and Nonfinancial Measures of Operating Performance by Executives in a Service Organization
Placement: Full Professor of Accounting at Townson University in Maryland.
Name: Schmidt, Richard
Advisor: Farris, George
Graduation Date: 1988/May
Thesis Title: Technical Information Exchange in R&D Organizations: The Technical R&D Pundit Role
Placement: Research Director at Kimberly Clark.
Name: Schneider, Marguerite
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 1998/May
Thesis Title: The Battle for Control of Public Pension Plans: An Empirical Study Utilizing the Nexus of Roles Agency Model
Placement: Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Name: Schons, Edward
Advisor: Hoffman, L. Richard
Graduation Date: 1999/ October
Thesis Title: A Model of Individual influence in Group Problem-Solving, An Interactive Process Analysis
Placement: Professor at Caldwell College in New Jersey.
Name: Scillitoe, Joanne
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 2004/ October
Thesis Title: Technological Learning of New Technology-Based Ventures in the Context of University-Linked Technology Incubators.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech Univ-School of Business and Economics
Name: Selzer, Martin
Advisor: Jones, Douglas
Graduation Date: 1992/May
Thesis Title: Modeling Heteroskedasticity Using Quasi-Likelihood and Ordinary Least Squares Residuals with Applications to Personnel Selection Models
Placement: Statistical Forecasting at AT&T in New Jersey.
Name: Simms, Shalei
Advisor: ogilvie,dt
Graduation Date: 2010/May
Thesis Title: Why who you are at the time matters: An examination of the relationship between social identity salience and reisky decision making
Placement: Assistant Professor at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
Name: Slowinski, Eugene
Advisor: Farris, George
Graduation Date: 1992/January
Thesis Title: Strategic Partnerships: The Relationship Between Effectiveness and Variables Related to Resource Fit, Management of the Organizational Interface, and the Context of the Partnership
Placement: Director of the Rutgers University Technical Assistance Program (RUTAP) in New Jersey.
Name: Smith, Steven
Advisor: DiTomaso, Nancy
Graduation Date: 1997/May
Thesis Title: Assessing the Impact of Race and Nativity on the Careers of Scientists and Engineers: An Analysis of Selection and Attainment Processes in the Scientific Labor Market
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of New Orleans.
Name: Smith, Tashonna 
Advisor: Dougherty, Deborah 
Graduation Date: 2011/May
Thesis Title: An Examination of the Effects of Downsizing on Organizational Performance 
Name: Sohn, Tae-Wohn
Advisor: Hoffman, L. Richard
Graduation Date: 1985/May
Thesis Title: Motivation Dynamics: An Application of System Dynamics to Expectancy-Valence Theory
Placement: Professor at Hanyang University in Korea.
Name: Stouder, Michael
Advisor: Kirchhoff, Bruce
Graduation Date: 2002/October
Thesis Title: The Capital Structure Decision of Nascent Entreprenuers
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Michigan at Flint.
Name: Stryker, James
Advisor: Farris, George
Graduation Date: 2004/May
Thesis Title: Open Versus Closed Offices: The Effect of the Design of the Physical Workplace Environment on the Face-to-Face Communication in R&D Project Teams
Placement: Senior Project manager at Paulus, Sokolowski, & Sartor in Warren, New Jersey.
Name: Studdard, Nareatha
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 2004/October
Thesis Title: The Enrepreneurial Ventures Social Interaction with the Business Incubator Management and the Relationship's Impact on Firm Performance.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Arkansas State University.
Name: Takacs, Helen
Advisor: Chakrabarti, Alok
Graduation Date: 2005/October
Thesis Title: Technology Sourcing in the Medical Devices Industry: The Role of Technology Characteristics and Organizational Context.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Management & Labor Relations at Cleveland State Univeristy in Ohio.
Name: Wischnevsky, J. Daniel
Advisor: Damanpour, Fariborz
Graduation Date: 1999/May
Thesis Title: Antecedents and Performance Consequences of Organizational Transformation: A Study of Revolutionary and Non-revolutionary Organizational Transformation in the Banking Industry
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Name: Zhang, Yanli
Advisor: Cantwell, John
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: International Business Connections, Domestic Inter-Firm Networks and Corporate Technology Development Paths of Japanese Firms
Placement: Assistant Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Name: Zhao, Guozhen 
Advisor: Chen, Ya-Ru 
Graduation Date: 2012/January
Thesis Title: What Influences Managers' Enactment of Procedural and Interactional Justice Towards Their Subordinates? The Role of Subordinates' Trustworthiness 
Placement: Assistant Professor at Delta State University in Mississippi.

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Supply Chain Management Alumni

Name: Chen, Ching-Yu
Advisor: Zhao, Yao (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: Essays on Supply Chain Inventory Management.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Tunghai University in Taiwan.
Name: Chen, Wen
Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: New Models and Solutions for Stochastic Optimization for R&D and Transportation Problems.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Choi, Sungyong
Advisor: Ruszczynski, Andrej (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2009/October
Thesis Title: Risk-Averse Newsvendor Models.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Name: Fan, Chunxing
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: On the Collaborative Planning and Scheduling Problems.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University
Name:Fan,Yihnong
Co-Advisor: Melamed, Benjamin (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Co-Advisor: Zhao, Yao (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2008/May
Thesis Title: Stochastic Models for Make-To-Stock Production-Inventory Systems.
Placement: Unknown at this time.
Name: Fleischhacker, Adam
Advisor: Zhao, Yao (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2009/October
Thesis Title: An Investigation of Clinical Trial Supply Chains
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware
Name: Gao, Su
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: On the Integrated Production and Distribution Problems in Make-to-Order Businesses
Placement: Assistant Professor at Clark Atlanta University
Name: Iacocca, Kathleen
Advisor: Zhao, Yao (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2011/October
Thesis Title: Essays on Drug Distribution and Pricing Models
Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Scranton
Name: Pai, Dinesh
Advisor: Lawrence, Kenneth
Graduation Date: 2009/October
Thesis Title: Determining the Efficacy of Mathematical Programming Approaches for Multi-Group Classification
Placement: Assistant Professor at Penn State University-Harrisburg
Name: Puranam, Srinivasa (Karti)
Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: Stochastic Analysis of Bidding in Sequential Auctions and Related Problems.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Ithaca College
Name: Shi, Junmin
Co-Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Co-Advisor: Melamed, Benjamin (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2010/October
Thesis Title: Make-to-Stock Production-Inventory Systems with Compound Poisson Demands, Constant Continuous Replenishment and Lost Sales.
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
Name: Shi, Min
Co-Advisor: Stoumbos, Zachary (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Co-Advisor: Armstrong, Ronald (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: Detection of Aberrant Response Patterns in Testing Using Cumulative Sum Control Schemes
Placement: Assistant Professor at California State Polytechnic University - Pomona.
Name: Zhong, Hua
Advisor: Lei, Lei (Department of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science)
Graduation Date: 2006/May
Thesis Title: Models and Algorithms for Supply Chain Network with Bi-Directional Flows.
Placement: Assistant Professor at SUNY-Oneonta
Name: Zhou, Bin
Co-Advisor: Katehakis, Michael (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Co-Advisor: Zhao, Yao (Department of Management Science & Information Systems)
Graduation Date: 2007/May
Thesis Title: On Optimal Pricing and Ordering in Supply Chain Management
Placement: Assistant Professor at Kean University in New Jersey

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Individualized Major Alumni

Business Ethics
Name: Alzola, Miguel
Advisor: Hartman, Edwin
Graduation Date: 2009/October
Thesis Title: Taking Character Seriously: Toward a Theory of Virtue in Organizations
Placement: Assistant Professor at Fordham University.
Healthcare Management
Name: Scucci, Mary Kay
Advisor: Chen, Ren-Raw and Hassan, Mahmud
Graduation Date: 2007/October
Thesis Title: A Theory of Embedded Options: The Stochastic Intertemporal Demand for Health in a General Equilibrium Model with Embedded Options
Placement: Position at Bear Stearns.
Quantitative Marketing
Name: France, Stephen
Advisor: Carroll, Douglas
Graduation Date: 2008/October
Thesis Title: Developing Metric MDS Techniques for the Visualization and Interpretation of Customer Data
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

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