Current Students

Meet our PhD students

There are currently 88 students in the PhD program in Business Administration. Please find their information below:

Chundan Lan
PhD Student
Chundan Lan is an Accounting Ph.D. student at the Carlson School of Management.
Yichang Liu
PhD Candidate
Xinyuan Shao
PhD Candidate
Yihan Song
PhD Student
Yihan Song, PhD Student at the University of Minnesota with a concentration in Accounting.
Ethan Yao
PhD Student
Mark Michienzi
PhD Student

Mark Michienzi, CPA is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Accounting at the Carlson School of Management. He received his B.S. in Accounting from St. Cloud State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. He has been a Certified Public Accountant within the State of Minnesota since 2018.

Yuchen Chen
PhD Candidate

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Finance at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.

I will be on the job market and available for interviews at FMA (Atlanta), AFA (New Orleans), and any virtual interviews during the 2022-23 academic year.

Jing Gao
PhD Student
Jash Jain
PhD Student
Yu Li
PhD Student

I am a Ph.D Candidate in Finance from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.

My research interests are Fintech, Financial Intermediaries and International Finance. In my research, I focus on how financial frictions can be overcome to improve the conditions of underprivileged individuals, businesses or countries.

Yicheng Wang
PhD Student
Yicheng Wang is a PhD Student in the Finance department at the Carlson School of Management.
Chonghao Hao
PhD Student

First-year Ph.D. student in the Finance department.

Zenan (Alan) Chen
PhD Candidate

At the University of Minnesota, I employ both empirical and analytical methods to study the effects of productivity-enhancing technologies  on individuals and firms with my advisors Jason Chan and Soumya Sen.

Jeff Clement
PhD Candidate

My dissertation is focused on the interactions between experts and AI/machine learning systems, specifically how AI explanations impact how healthcare providers incorporate AI recommendations into care decisions.  I have a related project looking at how AI impacts the doctor-patient relationship, and several smaller projects that use pharmaceutical prescription data t

Zihong Huang
PhD Candidate
Joe Jenkins
PhD Student
Joe Jenkins is a current PhD Student in the Information & Decision Sciences department at the Carlson School of Management.
Hyeongseo Park
PhD Student
Hyeongseo Park is an Information & Decision Sciences PhD student at the Carlson School of Management.
Agnes Yang
PhD Candidate

My research area is blockchain economics and its implications on governance. More specifically, my current project looks at governance in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) in decentralized finance (DeFi). In another, I study cryptocurrency partnerships between traditional finance, blockchain projects, and inter-projects.

Sojung Yoon
PhD Student
Sojung Yoon, PhD Student in the Carlson School of Management Information & Decision Sciences department.
Yi Zhu
PhD Candidate

Yi Zhu is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His research interests lie in the intersection of health IT and analytics, network science and economics, and consumer behavior.

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Ben Chen
PhD Student
Mayank Anand
PhD Candidate

Currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Consumer Behavior, Mayank has over 3 years of marketing and consulting experience. He has worked with corporate giants like Unilever, Boston Consulting Group, and Asian paints; and helped them excel in the South East Asia region.

Xianyu (Bonnie) Hao
PhD Candidate

Xianyu Hao (Bonnie) is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Marketing at the University of Minnesota. Bonnie’s current research interests include political marketing, consumer well-being, and new technology.

Han Young Jung
PhD Candidate

Han is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Marketing at Carlson School of Management. His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility (diversity issues in marketing and cause-related marketing) and consumer perceptions of digital forms of money and products. 

Sangmin Kim
PhD Student

Sangmin is interested in consumers' response to information environment - how they process, understand, and react to available information. Sangmin's current research interests include consumers' response to online advertisements, consumer search behavior, privacy concerns, and conspiratorial thinking.

Sudeep Kumar
PhD Student
Sudeep Kumar is a PhD Student in the Marketing department at the Carlson School of Management.
Yuanchen Su
PhD Candidate

Yuanchen Su is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Marketing at the University of Minnesota. Yuanchen received her M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering and M.S. in Statistics from the University of Minnesota, and B.E. in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University in China.

Qi Xie
PhD Candidate

Currently I'm a fourth year Ph.D. Candidate in quantitative marketing at Carlson School of Management.

Weize Yin
PhD Student
Ruihang Shen
PhD Student

Ruihang Shen is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota studying marketing, and consumer behavior. She completed her M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill, Northwestern University, and B.A. in Communication at George Washington University. 

Luqian Sun
PhD Student

Luqian is a first-year quantitative marketing Ph.D. student from Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. She focuses on e-commerce and social media marketing, utilizing machine learning and deep learning methods.

Michael Park
PhD Candidate

Please visit my personal website for the most recent version of my CV and further information about my research.

Sohyun Park
PhD Candidate
Gregory (G) Young
PhD Student
Gregory (G) Young is a doctoral student in the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management.
Jiaqi (Vikki) Yuan
PhD Student
Jiaqi (Vikki) Yuan is a Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship PhD student at the Carlson School of Management.
Shilpam Dubey
PhD Student

First-year Ph.D. student in the Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship department.

Xiangting Wu
PhD Student

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in Strategy. My research interests center around stakeholder and network perspectives. 

Yasaman Asayesh
PhD Student
Yasaman Asayesh, PhD student in the Carlson School of Management's Supply Chain & Operations department.
Yeon Joo Lee
PhD Candidate
Alison Murphy
PhD Candidate

Alison is a 5

Finn Petersen
PhD Student
I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Supply Chain and Operations department. My research integrates work in operations management with insights from organizational theory and sociology to understand why organizations and individuals engage in organizational misconduct and what the consequences of such wrongdoing are. 
Yi Tang
PhD Candidate
Hanu Tyagi
PhD Student
I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Supply Chain and Operations department at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. I am interested in studying how operational decisions affect the development and distribution of pharmaceutical drugs.

PhD student in Supply chain and Operations Management.

First-year Ph.D. student in the Supply Chain and Operations department. 

Adrianto
PhD Candidate

Adrianto completed his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universitas Indonesia and Master's in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Brandy Edmondson
PhD Student

Brandy Edmondson is a fifth year doctoral student in the Work and Organizations department and Predoctoral Associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Dongil (Marco) Jang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Work and Organizations at the Carlson School of Management. Marco's current research focuses on boundaryless careers in the digital transformation era. He studies the changes in employment relationships examining pay negotiation within and between organizational boundaries.

Seola Kim
PhD Student
Seola Kim is a Work & Organizations PhD student at the Carlson School of Management.
Jianxuan Lei
PhD Student
Jianxuan Lei is a Work & Organizations PhD student at the Carlson School of Management.
Xuan Liu
PhD Candidate

Xuan Liu is a fourth-year Ph.D.

JeeYoung Seo
PhD Candidate

Jee Young (Jeeny) Seo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Work and Organizations. Her research focuses on interpersonal behaviors, emotions, personality, leadership and teams.

Junseok Song
PhD Candidate

Junseok Song is a PhD Student in Work & Organization at the Carlson School of Management. He received his Bachelor's degree at the University of Minnesota and Master's degree at Yonsei University, Korea. He has work experience in the Statistics Bureau of Korea as well as management consulting firms such as Accenture and the Boston Consulting Group.

Christopher Winchester
PhD Candidate & Instructor

Christopher (Chris) C. Winchester is an award-winning research- and teaching-oriented Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior at the Carlson School of Management within the Department of Work and Organizations.