Doctoral Student Hosts

Ashwin Aravindakshan
Dissertation title: Advances in Mathematical Models in Marketing

Research interests:  Mathematical Modeling, CRM, Choice Models

Expected graduation date: June 2007

Academic record: Published papers in Management Science (2006) and Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering (2004). Presented Papers at Marketing Science (2004) and (2005)

Tuck Siong Chung
Research interests: Service Models, Electronic Services, Bayesian Modeling, and Reinforcement Learning.

Expected graduation date: Summer 2007

Academic record: Forthcoming paper in Marketing Science (2006), presented at Marketing Science Conference (2003).

Kevin Dayaratna
Research interests: Service marketing, choice models, mathematical modeling, optimization, and Bayesian statistics.

Expected graduation date: 2010

Academic record: Paper published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics (2005).

Olga Dorokhina
Research interests: Consumers’ information processing strategies and decision making under external pressure and uncertainty conditions.

Expected graduation date: 2009

Francine Espinoza
Dissertation title: Judgmental biases due to correction processes.

Research interests: Consumer psychology, correction models, affective processes, context effects.

Expected graduation date: August 2008

Academic record: “Anger in Ultimatum Bargaining: Emotional Outcomes Lead to Irrational Decisions”  - presented at ACR (2005); “E-Loyalty: determinants of loyalty to an on-line retailer”  - presented at Frontiers in Service (2005)

Jing Gao

Research interests: Modeling online behavior and service marketing.

Expected graduation date: 2010

Academic record: Will present paper on "Cross-Cultural Customer Satisfaction Measures" in the 2006 Frontiers in Services Conference.

Gauri Kulkarni
Research interests:  Choice models, search behavior, customization

Expected graduation date: May 2008

Academic record: Scheduled to present at Marketing Science in June 2006

Ryan Lowe
Research interests: Company negative events and to handle them, Professional Services

Expected graduation date: May 2008

Carol Miu
Research interests: CRM, Word-of-Mouth, Culture, Opinion Leadership

Expected graduation date: May 2009

Academic record: Forthcoming paper in CACM, Presented at Frontiers in Service (2006)

Anupama Ramachandran
Research interests: Bayesian Modeling, E-commerce

Expected graduation date: June 2008

Academic record: Published chapter in Advances in Computers, 64 (2005). Presented a paper at Marketing Science (2005.

Peggy Tseng
Research interests: Advance purchasing, spatial model, and hazard model

Expected graduation date: May 2009

Academic record: Presented at Frontiers (2005) and Marketing Science (2006)