Faculty Appointments for 2012-13
Four new instructors joined the ranks of tenure-track faculty in the Business School this fall.
Seoyoung Kim
Dr. Seoyoung Kim has joined the Finance department as an assistant professor. Previously, she served as an assistant professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Her expertise is in empirical corporate finance with a focus on corporate governance and executive compensation. In one of her current projects she has examined how social networks amongst board members impacts their decisions.
Gangshu "George" Cai
Dr. Gangshu Cai, has joined the Operations Management and Information Systems (OMIS) department as an associate professor. Formerly he was an associate professor in the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University. Winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award at Kansas State, Gangshu is a highly prolific scholar with expertise in the area of supply chain management and the marketing-operations interface.
Tao Li
Tao Li has joined the OMIS department as an assistant professor. This past year, he completed his doctoral dissertation at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. With a number of top-tier publications already under his belt, Tao is an expert in the area of supply chain management with a special emphasis on sourcing strategy.
Gonçalo Pina
Gonçalo Pina has joined the Economics department as an assistant professor. He has recently completed his doctoral dissertation in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Gonçalo's main areas of study are international finance and macroeconomics, but he has broad ranging interests including behavioral economics, having co-authored a paper on the role of over-confidence in decision making using evidence from a rule change in professional hockey.
