Ph.D. Students

I enjoy working with Ph.D. students immensely.  This page displays people who I have worked with while they were Ph.D. students.  Many have gone on to have wonderful careers.  I am grateful to have been a part of their early development as an academic.

Jacqueline Pike


University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business - 2011

Major - Information Systems

Current - Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology at Duquesne University

Nehir Tanyel

Pratyush Sharma



University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business - 2013

Major - Information Systems

Current - Associate Department Head in Information Systems and Assistant Professor at Culverhouse College of Business, University of Alabama

Past Students

Renzhi (Fred) Zhao


University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business - Expected 2024

Major - Business Administration, Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems

Current - Ph.D. Candidate and Instructor at the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business

Truong (Jack) Luu


University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business

Interests - Cryptocurrency, Information Systems, Business Analytics

Current - Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Assistant at the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business & Research Fellow at Kautz-Uible Cryptoeconomics Lab

Saidat Abidemi Sanni


University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business

Major - Business Analytics

Current - Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business

Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business

Major - Computer Information Systems

Current - Ph.D. Candidate & Graduate Assistant at the Georgia State University J. Mack Robinson College of Business


Other students not pictured

Directions for Prospective RAs, GAs, etc

I receive many requests to consider student interns and RAs. Please feel free to send me email, and I will take a quick look through it. However, unfortunately, I do not have the time to respond to every email. If you are a current Lindner College of Business student with a potential research collaboration in mind, I will give your email top priority if you include a short document detailing your idea. You should include a summary of why your idea is interesting, novel, and significant; potential data sources; and a brief outline of the methodology that you want to develop or use.

Please add the tag [SDPROJ] to the subject line of your email requesting to be an RA or to start a collaboration. Otherwise I may ignore your email.