Faculty Members Available to Supervise
The following faculty members have indicated their availability to supervise during the 2027-2028 academic session.
| Name | Area | Research Interest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shamel Addas | Information Systems | Available to supervise students with interests in human-AI interaction (e.g., conversational and agentic AI systems, trust, and collaboration) and the broader impacts of digital technology use on individual behaviors and outcomes, including the dark side of technology use (e.g., technology interruptions, addiction, social media disinformation) and digital health contexts. I draw on a diverse methodological toolkit including experimental designs, survey research, mixed methods, and data-driven techniques. | shamel.addas@queensu.ca | |
| Goce Andrevski | Strategy | My current research explores: 1) the behavioral drivers behind firms’ responses—and deliberate non-responses—to competitive attacks, 2) the role of competitive surprise in shaping the dynamics of rivalry, 3) the conditions under which competitive aggressiveness enhances firm performance, 4) the strategic outcomes of alliance networks and mergers, and 5) the impact of public opinion on firms’ competitive behavior. | goce.andrevski@queensu.ca | |
| Laurence Ashworth | Marketing | I use experiments (online, lab, and field) to study consumer psychology. Recent work with graduate students has investigated why people react so negatively to persuasion and factors that cause gift recipients to become suspicious of the gifts they receive. | laurence.ashworth@queensu.ca | |
| Abayomi Baiyere | Information Systems | I research issues at the intersection of digital transformation, disruption, and the societal impact of digitalization. I mostly adopt a design science, ethnography, or mixed methods approach. | a.baiyere@queensu.ca | |
| Jean-Etienne de Bettignies | Business Economics | I am interested in applied theory and empirical work in organizational economics, with applications to entrepreneurship and innovation, corporate governance, and non-market strategy. | jean.debettignies@queensu.ca | |
| Jake Brower | Marketing | My primary research interests are in the domain of marketing strategy, and methodologically normally come from a quantitative perspective. Substantively, my research has focused on sustainability and corporate social responsibility, brand activism, digital marketing and analytics, and top management team dynamics, however I'm open to supervising a wide variety of problem-driven strategy-relevant research questions. | jbrower@queensu.ca | |
| Pierre Chaigneau | Finance | At the PhD level, theoretical research in corporate finance and corporate governance for students with strong economics training who have already completed the MSc. | pierre.chaigneau@queensu.ca | |
| Sean Cleary | Finance | Sustainable finance and/or corporate finance empirical research. | sean.cleary@queensu.ca | |
| Elaheh Fata | Analytics | I am available to supervise analytical research. Students should be comfortable with mathematical modeling, probability, optimization and machine learning. | elaheh.fata@queensu.ca | |
| Bhargav Gopal | Business Economics | My research is at the intersection of labor economics, finance, and law and economics. I am currently working on projects that study diversity in corporate leadership and the effects of non-competition agreements. | b.gopal@queensu.ca | |
| Raga Gopalakrishnan | Analytics | I am interested in the modeling, analysis, and optimal design of queues with strategic agents, which involves blending models of human strategic interaction (game-theoretic and other behavioral models) with traditional queueing models using a rigorous mathematical approach. | rg78@queensu.ca | |
| Jay Handelman | Marketing | I am available to supervise students interested in a qualitative approach to consumer and marketplace phenomena. This is particularly relevant for students interested in taking a sociological perspective on marketing and consumer behaviour. | jay.handelman@queensu.ca | |
| Olena Ivus | Business Economics | My research employs both theory and empirical work to study aspects of international trade law and regulation, intellectual property protection, and international high-skilled migration. | olena.ivus@queensu.ca | |
| Beste Kucukyazici | Analytics | My research focuses on analytics for social good, with a particular emphasis on healthcare systems. I use AI, optimization, simulation, and data analytics to tackle high-impact healthcare challenges with the goal of improving both patient outcomes and system performance. | beste.kucukyazici@queensu.ca | |
| Yanzhe (Murray) Lei | Analytics | My research focuses on designing data-driven analytics for complex decision-making problems, and understanding how to make them better aligned with societal values, especially privacy and fairness. Recently, I've started exploring the intersection of operations with generative and agentic AI. | yl64@queensu.ca | |
| Yuri Levin | Analytics | revenue management and dynamic pricing, customer behaviour modeling, and agentic AI | yuri.levin@queensu.ca | |
| Guang Li | Analytics | My research focuses on revenue management, retail operations, and policy design and decision-making, drawing on methods from optimization, game theory, and machine learning. I welcome students with strong technical backgrounds and well-aligned research interests. | guang.li@queensu.ca | |
| Jean-Baptiste Litrico | Strategy | My research interests include: Social Innovation; Institutional Change; Industry Evolution; Sustainability Transition; Environmental Issues; Business Collective Action; Social Activism. | jlitrico@queensu.ca | |
| Paula Lopez-Pena | Business Economics | I use field experiments and survey data to study how adverse life events—from minor daily hassles to traumatic experiences—affect employment, productivity, and health. My current projects focus on changing toxic workplace cultures, removing barriers to women’s employment and entrepreneurship, expanding access to mental health services, and reducing intimate partner violence. | paula.lopezpena@queensu.ca | |
| Arcan Nalca | Management Analytics | My research examines how firms make operational and strategic decisions under uncertainty, with interests spanning operations management, business analytics, pricing, inventory, and supply chain management. More recently, I have been studying demand learning and the effects of partial ownership structures on competition, incentives, and firm performance. | arcan.nalca@queensu.ca | |
| Mikhail Nediak | Analytics | Revenue management, dynamic pricing, operations-marketing interface, operations-finance interface, responsible AI | mikhail.nediak@queensu.ca | |
| Yulia Nevskaya | Marketing | Available to supervise students interested in quantitative marketing. Wide range of topics, including digital content consumption, consumer response to advertising, consumer information use. Broad set of methods, such as machine learning, choice modeling, dynamic programming. | yulia.nevskaya@queensu.ca | |
| Eddy Ng | Organizational Behaviour | Available to supervise students with interests in gender and diversity in organizations and human resources management – topics include, but are not limited to, employment equity and affirmative action, public policy on fair treatment, employment and workplace discrimination, and Pinkerton syndrome at work. | eddy.ng@queensu.ca | |
| Ekin Ok | Marketing | My research is in consumer behaviour and I primarily use experimental methods. Current projects include topics related to identity, interpersonal relationships, self-care, moral decision-making and prediction biases (e.g., planning fallacy and affective forecasting). I am available to supervise students interested in consumer psychology who wish to use experimental methods in their research. | ekin.ok@queensu.ca | |
| Nicole Robitaille | Marketing | I am available to supervise students who are interested in experimental consumer research, both in the lab and field. My work focuses on applying behavioral science to address consumer, marketing, and policy issues across a variety of domains including financial, health and sustainable behaviours. | nicole.robitaille@queensu.ca | |
| Jean-Paul Roy | International Business | I am available to supervise research in the areas of international joint venture partner selection, trust and commitment in international partnerships, the social networking practices of managers in China and Japan, and broader research on management practices in Japan. | royjp@queensu.ca | |
| Steven Salterio | Accounting | I have successfully supervised students in archival, field, and experimental research in auditing, management accounting, and corporate governance. I am currently working on management accounting experimental work on curiosity, creativity, and wicked problems, archival audit regulatory research, and understanding the replication research culture and knowledge transfer to standard setters. My belief is that your research passion is determined by you and that together we develop a topic that fits your goals. | steven.salterio@queensu.ca | |
| Matthias Spitzmuller | Organizational Behaviour | Matthias Spitzmuller's research centers on team leadership and helping behaviors in organizations. In the area of team leadership, he explores non-traditional forms of leadership that move beyond hierarchical models, such as shared and rotating leadership. His second stream of research examines the outcomes of various types of helping behavior, with a particular focus on understanding when such behaviors lead to positive versus negative consequences for the well-being of those who engage in them. | matthias.spitzmuller@queensu.ca | |
| Veikko Thiele | Business Economics | I conduct theoretical research primarily in entrepreneurial finance, dynamic pricing in e-commerce, and contract theory. | thiele@queensu.ca | |
| Tandy Thomas | Marketing | I am available to supervise MSc and PhD students interested in Consumer Culture Theory and qualitative approaches to consumer and marketing research. My research examines how social and cultural contexts shape consumers’ everyday lives and influence marketplace behaviours. I am particularly interested in projects that engage with questions of identity, collective consumption, meaning-making, and the cultural dynamics that underpin consumption practices. | tandy.thomas@queensu.ca | |
| Selim Topaloglu | Finance | I am available to supervise students in empirical asset pricing, stock market anomalies, trading behavior of individual and institutional investors, and analyst behavior. | selim.topaloglu@queensu.ca | |
| Vedat Verter | Analytics | My primary expertise is in real life applications of healthcare analytics. The projects I carry out are typically at hospitals, and other care providing institutions. The work involves performing descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics on patient data. I also work on the development of mathematical models to facilitate policy development in the areas of health care, sustainability, and circular economy. | vedat.verter@queensu.ca | |
| Jue Wang | Analytics | Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability. | juewang-faculty@queensu.ca | |
| Wei Wang | Finance | Dr. Wang’s research focuses on corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and financial regulation, with particular expertise in corporate financial distress and bankruptcy. | wwang@queensu.ca | |
| Jane Webster | Information Systems | Dr. Webster's current research concerns information systems and technologies to support environmental sustainability. Recent topics have included greenwashing and gamification. Her research falls at the intersection of information systems and organizational behaviour, as demonstrated by her publications in a variety of journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Communication Research, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Organizational Behavior, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. She is interested in working with graduate students on environmental issues at the individual level of analysis (e.g., by studying employees, consumers, or residents) using quantitative and/or qualitative methods. | jane.webster@queensu.ca | |
| Nasrin Yousefi | Analytics | My research interests include data-driven optimization, decision-making under uncertainty, inverse optimization, and machine learning with a particular focus on healthcare operations. | nasrin.yousefi@queensu.ca | |
| Christy Zhou Koval | Organizational Behaviour | My research examines factors that contribute to inequity in the workplace and society at large. I’m available to supervise students with interests in diversity and inclusion in the workplace, stereotyping and bias, and intergroup relations. | christy.koval@queensu.ca |