PhD Corner
# of PhD Students
50
# of PhD Faculty
85
Our PhD Students Come From 10 Countries
China
Greece
Iran
Mexico
Nigeria
Taiwan
U.S.A.
85%
of graduating PhD students recommend the program to others
100%
of graduating PhD students are employed within six months of graduation
Student Spotlight
Recent PhD Graduate Placements
at Peer or Aspirant Universities
Yafang Li (2022)
Management Information Systems
University of Memphis
Carlos Torres (2022)
Management Information Systems
Baylor University
Oscar (Hengxuan) Chi (2021)
Hospitality Business Management
University of Florida
Natalie Liberman (2021)
Management
Indiana University
Sadegh Kazemi (2020)
Operations and Management Science
University of Houston
Susan He (2019)
Finance
Washington State University-Vancouver
Yunshil Cha (2019)
Accounting
University of New Hampshire
Mike Kennedy (2019)
Management Information Systems
University of British Columbia
Aishajiang Aizezikali (2018)
Operations and Management Science
Ivey Business School
Scott Connors (2018)
Marketing
University of Western Ontario
Shinhye Kim (2018)
Marketing
University of Missouri
Current PhD Student Achievements
Demi Deng, hospitality business management, received first place in the 2021 WSU Academic Showcase and GPSA Research Exposition for the business, communication, and political science category.
Jiyoon (Jennifer) Han, hospitality business management, received $2,000 from the Korean American Scholarship Foundation and a $5,000 Sookmyung Outstanding Professional Student Scholarship to support her studies.
Jalal Sarabadani, information systems, received the “Best Student Paper” award at a workshop preceding the International Conference on Information Systems in Demark. He presented two papers at the conference.
Shirin Shahsavand, operations and management, was chosen for the INFORMS “To My Younger Self” mentoring program for female doctoral students, which pairs participants with a highly successful female scholar.
Gurdeep Singh Raina, management, received the 2022 Community Engagement Award from the WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association.
Julia Stachofsky, management information systems, has received the Alice O. Rice Graduate Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service.
Current PhD Students with Accepted Publications
Hui-Heng Cheng (finance) recently published two papers:
Wang, J. L., Huang, H. C., Chen, Y. C., & Cheng, M. H. H. (Forthcoming) “The Financial Impacts and Intergenerational Equity of the Pension Reform in Taiwan,” NTU Management Review.
Wang, J. L., Huang, H. C., Yang, S. S., Chen, Y. C., & Cheng, M. H. H. (2017) “Pension Reform and Building a Sustainable Pension System in Taiwan,” Taiwan Economic Forecast and Policy, 48(1), 1-39.
Demi Deng and coauthors Jenny Kim, H. Min, and Jessica Murray have forthcoming research, “Organizational error culture and customer orientation: a comparative analysis of error aversion and error management,” in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, (2022).
Gregory Denton (hospitality) and coauthors Oscar Hengxuan Chi and Professor Dogan Gursoy recently published “An examination of critical determinants of carbon offsetting behavior: The role of gender” in Journal of Sustainable Tourism, (2021) 25, pp. 1-23.
Chi, Denton, and Gursoy also have a forthcoming article, “Interactive effects of message framing and information content on carbon offsetting behaviors,” in Tourism Management.

Yafang Li (MIS) and Xuemei Huang (MIS) recently published:
Jing Fan, Mingxing Shao, Yafang Li, Xuemei Huang, (2018) “Understanding Users’ Attitude Toward Mobile Payment Use: A Comparative Study Between China and the USA,” Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 118 Issue: 3, pp. 524-540.
Jiyoon (Jennifer) Han (hospitality) is the coauthor of a forthcoming journal article with Professor Chun-Chu (Bamboo) Chen and Yao-Chin Wang, (2022), “A Hotel Stay for a Respite from Work? Examining Recovery Experience, Rumination and Well-Being among Hotel and Bed-and-Breakfast Guests,” International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
Amirhossein Moadab (operations management) is the coauthor of “Drone Routing Problem Model for Last-Mile Delivery Using the Public Transportation Capacity as Moving Charging Stations,” Nature Scientific Reports, 6361 (2022).
Julia Stachofsky (management information systems) and coauthors Christian Schaupp and Robert Crossler, have forthcoming research, “Measuring the Effect of Political Alignment, Platforms, and Fake News Consumption on Voter Concern for Election Processes,” in Government Information Quarterly.
Kiely Yonce (accounting) is the coauthor of a forthcoming journal article with Professor Beau Barnes, “Healthcare Accounting Research: An Analysis, Review, and Suggestions for Future Work,” in the Journal of Governmental & Nonprofit Accounting.
Lu Yuan (hospitality) published “SWOT Analysis About the Integration of Tourism Development of Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reach of the Yangtze River” in the 2016 issue of Chinese & Foreign Entrepreneurs, 1-18.