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Aysun Alp
Office: 2318 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9170
Email:
aalp@rhsmith.umd.edu
Aysun is a fourth year student in the Ph.D. program. She received her
B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering at Bogazici University,
Turkey, where she also held a teaching assistantship while a Master's student.
Even as an undergraduate she was involved in research and has published
with a prestigious engineering journal. For her Ph.D. studies, Aysun has
been awarded an assistantship and a full Dean's Fellowship. She is interested
in corporate finance research, mergers and acquisitions, and credit ratings.
Aysun's teaching experience includes an undergraduate International Finance
course at the Smith School.
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Matthew Kozora
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9117
Email: mkozora@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Matthew is in his fifth year of doctoral studies. Prior to Maryland,
he attained a Masters of Science in Computational and Quantitative Finance
from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga), where he was also
employed as a teaching assistant for the department of mathematics. He attended
Washington and Lee University (Lexington, Va) for his undergraduate studies,
attaining a Bachelor of Science in business administration and Bachelor
of Arts in mathematics.
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Nitin Kumar
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: nkumar@rhsmith.umd.edu
Nitin joined the Smith School of Business in 2006 as a PhD student in
Finance. He received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT) - Kanpur, India and MS in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical
Institute (ISI) - Calcutta, India. He worked for Infosys and SAP from
2002-2004. His current research interests are corporate governance and financial
econometrics.
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Jeongmin Lee
Email: jeongmin@rhsmith.umd.edu
Jeongmin joined the Finance Ph.D. Program in 2008. She was awarded a
full graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer Research
Fellowship. Jeongmin got her B.S. in Mathematics from POSTECH in 2005
and M.S. of Management Engineering (Concentration in Finance) in 2008
from KAIST Business School, both in Korea. Her current research
interests include Theoretical Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing.
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Minwen Li
Offce: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9119
Email: mli@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Minwen joined the finance department as a PhD student in 2004. She
received her Master of Quantitative Economics from Tsinghua University
and her B.S. in Finance with an Outstanding Student Scholarship from
Beijing University in China. Prior to joining the PhD program, Minwen
was a financial manager at State Grid Corporation of China, the largest
Chinese power company ranked 24th among the Fortune Global 500. During
her three years working experience at State Grid, Minwen was responsible
for capital budgeting and financial reporting of $23 billion assets and
involved in many large restructuring and financing projects. She also
ranked first in the national GAAP case competition sponsored by Treasury
Department of China in 2001.
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Su Li
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: sli@rhsmith.umd.edu
Su is a second year Ph.D. student in the Finance department at the Robert
H. Smith School of Business. Su was awarded a full graduate assistantship,
along with a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship. Prior to joining to the
program, he received a B.S. in physics from the University of Science and
Technology of China in June, 2001 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University
of Maryland at College Park in August, 2007.
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Wei Li
Email: liwei@rhsmith.umd.edu
Wei Li joined the Smith School of Business in 2008 as a PhD student.
Prior to Maryland, he obtained a master of Statistics in Computational
Finance from Purdue University, West Lafayette. He also received degrees
in engineering from Purdue University (Ph.D.), Tsinghua University
(M.S.), and Zhejiang University (B.S.). His current research interests
are asset pricing and market microstructure.
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Yun Liu
Office: 1308 VanMunching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9024
Email: yunliu@rhsmith.umd.edu
Yun Liu joined the Finance Department in 2002. She earned an M.A. degree
in Economics from Simon Fraser University in Canada, where she was a recipient
of the Graduate Fellowship. Yun also has experience as a research assistant
in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Small Business and Revenue
in the British Columbia government. Her Bachelor's degree was from Guanghua
School of Management, Peking University in China, where she held the Excellent
Academic Performance Award and various scholarships. Yun was awarded a full
graduate assistantship and a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship for her Ph.D.
studies. Her research interests include corporate governance, compensation,
private equity and international finance. Yun has taught undergraduate
business finance and international finance courses at the Smith school. She received
the school's 2006 Krowe Teaching Excellence Award and the department's 2006
Joseph Wikler Teaching Award. Her entry to the university's Bright Ideas
competition received an Honorable Mention in 2004.
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Tanakorn Makaew
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: tmakaew@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Tanakorn Makaew is a doctoral student in Finance at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business. He graduated from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok-Thailand,
with a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering and a Master's in International
Economics and Finance. He also received another Bachelor's in Finance and
Banking from Ramkhamheang University. His research interests are in International
Finance and Corporate Finance.
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Seoyeon "Katie" Moon
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: kmoon@rhsmith.umd.edu
Katie Moon joined the Finance Ph.D. Program in 2006. She attended the
Financial Engineering Program, a joint program of the School of Mathematics
and the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University
for her M.S. degree. Her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and another M.S.
in Computer Science were from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
She has working experience as a computer programmer in a 3D Animation Company.
Her current research interests include Mathematical Finance and Financial
Risk Management.
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Michael Padhi
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9119
Email: mpadhi@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Michael Padhi joined the Ph.D. program in 2003. His research interests
include selection of corporate governance mechanism, microfinance, private
investment in public equity (PIPEs), and security design. He is the recipient
of the Business Dean's Fellowship and is an instructor of banking and financial
institutions. Prior to joining Smith, Padhi worked as a financial economic
analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta where he performed banking
research and antitrust regulation. His research on the effect of credit
scoring of small business loans in low- and moderate- income areas are published
in the Financial Review and were presented at several conferences. He has
also written several articles in Federal Reserve publications on a variety
of banking issues.
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Anshuman Sinha
Office: 1308E Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9024
Email: asinha@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Anshuman Sinha is a student of Finance at the Robert H. Smith School
of Business. He has a bachelor's and a master's degree in Mathematics. He
is interested in Financial theory of Agency, Corporate Governance, International
Finance and Mathematical Finance. He is teaching BMGT 446, an upper level
undergraduate course in international finance, in Fall 2006.
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Nitish Ranjan Sinha
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: nsinha@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Nitish did his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering from
Indian Institute of Technology and Post Graduate Diploma in Management (equivalent
to MBA) from Indian Institute of Technology. He has worked for ITC, Goldman
Sachs, Tata Strategic Management Group and most recently for Centre for
Advanced Financial Studies (CAFS) as a researcher where he researched implied
volatility of index options in Asia and IPO underpricing in India. His
research is focused on information content of news and disclosures made
by firms.
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Onur Tosun
Email: otosun@rhsmith.umd.edu
Onur Tosun joined the Finance Department in 2008. Prior to University
of Maryland, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from
Bogazici University, Turkey, where he was also employed as teaching
assistant for the Department of Management. He attended Istanbul
Technical University, Turkey for his undergraduate studies, attaining a
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. During his undergraduate
and graduate education, Onur conducted research in the fields of
logistics, marketing, and finance and participated in various
international conferences. He also published one of his works with the
Journal of Global Optimization. Onur was awarded a full graduate
assistantship and a Dean's Summer Research Fellowship for his Ph.D.
studies at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
His current research interests include financial risk management and
investment management.
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Tugkan Tuzun
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9152
Email: stuzun@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Tugkan is a fourth year student in the Ph.D. program. He received his
M.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and B.A in Economics from Bogazici University with High Honors. Before joining the Ph.D. program at
UMD, he worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Virginia. Tugkan
was awarded a full graduate assistantship, along with a Dean's Summer
Research Fellowship, for his Ph.D. studies. He is interested in
Institutional Trading, Market Microstructure, and Mutual Funds.
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Yue Xiao
Office: 1308 Van Munching Hall
Phone: (301) 314-9119
Email: yxiao@rhsmith.umd.edu
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Yue Xiao is a Ph.D. student in the Finance Program at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business. She specializes in Mathematical Finance. Yue received
a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation from the University
of Maryland in December 2005. Her research interests include mathematical
finance, asset pricing, and simulation modeling.
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