PhD in Business Administration
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Doctoral Candidates

Mohammad Alkhamees
Accountancy
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Shaddy Douidar
Finance
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Currently a doctoral candidate studying finance, Shaddy Douidar also earned his Masters
of Sciences in Finance at the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance at USF.
Previously, he earned his bachelor’s degree from the Kelley School of Business at
Indiana University (Bloomington). His preferred fields of research include politics
in finance and payout policy. He has presented his research at conferences including
the: Financial Management Association, Southern Finance Association, and Florida Finance
Conference. He has taught the following courses: Principles of Finance, Personal Finance,
and Fundamentals of Business Finance.

Mostafa Esmaeili
Information Systems
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Moez Farokhnia
Information Systems
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Moez Farokhnia is a PhD candidate in the Information Systems and Decision Sciences
Department at USF. He holds a master's degree degree in industrial engineering from
Sharif University of Technology and a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering
from Iran University of Science and Technology. He also has about three years of experience
as supply chain development expert and entrepreneurial activities. His principal research
interests include data analytics and applications of machine learning and operations
research in cyber security and health informatics. His research in cyber security
domain ranges from real-time detection of suspicious activities in EMR systems using
optimal ensembles of anomaly detectors to design of robust models for optimal allocations
of security controls. Toreinforce his research with rigorous causal inferences, he
has also conducted experimental studies on the collaboration of AI and humans in cryptocurrencies
market. Farokhnia uses variety of machine learning tools, operations research methods
and econometrics models in his researches. He has also presented his researches at
various conferences including WITS and WCBA. He also serves as an instructor of business
application development and C# programming at USF.

Shawn Granitto is a PhD candidate at the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy. His
general research interest is the use of accounting information systems (AIS) within
an audit setting. Specifically, his research examines the use of data visualizations,
data analytics, and anomaly detection techniques to interpret big data produced within
the audit setting. Shawn has presented his research at the Florida Behavioral Accounting
Research Symposium (FBARS) and has served as a discussant at the American Accounting
Association (AAA) AIS Midyear Meeting. Prior to entering academia, Shawn earned his
MAcc with a concentration in Information Systems from Florida Atlantic University
and worked at Grant Thornton as a consultant.

Jan Hanousek
Finance
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Ling Hu
Marketing

Khalia Jenkins
Marketing
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Arjun Kadian
Information Systems
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Ye Seul Kim
Marketing
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Yeseul Kim is a PhD candidate in marketing at the Muma College of Business. Before
joining USF, she earned an MS and BA in Psychology from Korea University. She pursued
the USF PhD program to apply what she learned in the discipline of psychology into
the marketing area. Her major research topic is sensory marketing. Specifically, she
investigates how visual components on websites affect online customer shopping behavior.
Another stream of her research is digital marketing. She examines the effect of social
media usage on users’ behavior. She teaches digital marketing at the undergraduate
level.

Juliana Kralik
Accountancy
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Juliana Kralik is a doctoral candidate in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy.
She is interested in researching topics related to the auditing profession using qualitative
and experimental methods. Specifically, her research examines the impact of the internal
control over financial reporting audit on auditor judgement and decision making along
with other challenges in the audit work environment and mechanisms to mitigate the
challenges. Kralik also earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Accounting from
USF. She has taught the Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting courses
as well as Accounting Information Systems. Prior to entering academia, she worked
as an external auditor at EY in the Tampa Bay area and maintains an active CPA license.

Mario Marshall
Finance
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Veronika Ponomarenko
Marketing
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Samuel Sekar
Marketing
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Roohid Ahmed Syed
Information Systems
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Raul Villamil-Otero
Accountancy
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Raul Villamil-Otero is a doctoral candidate in the Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy.
His general research interests include topics in auditing and accounting information
systems. Specifically, his research examines team communication’s method, frequency,
and nature and their effect on audit quality. Villamil-Otero is a licensed CPA, earned
an MBA from North Carolina A&T State University and a bachelor’s degree from the University
of Puerto Rico, Mayagϋez Campus.

Hao Wang
Marketing
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Hao Wang is a PhD candidate in marketing at the University of South Florida (USF).
His research interests focus on selling and sales management. He has interests in
empirically accessing managerially oriented research on issues related to salesforce
effectiveness and/or digital marketing. His paper has been conditionally accepted
to the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (FT50). He has also published research
in the Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management. His research has been selected
as a finalist for the 2021 James M. Comer Award for the Best Contribution to Selling
and Sales Management Theory. One of his dissertation essays received the Best Doctoral
Paper Award at the National Conference in Sales Management 2021. He presented his
research at major academic conferences such as the American Marketing Association
Conference, and the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. He also taught marketing
research and will teach digital marketing at USF.

Zicheng Xiao
Finance
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Gleb Zavadskiy
Information Systems
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Yimei Zhang
Accountancy
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Allison Crick-Smith
Marketing

Han Dai
Accountancy

Aihui Ding
Marketing

Thomas Gill
Information Systems

Jiehui Huang
Accounting

Jingwen Li
Finance

Ahmed Shuaib
Accounting

Alysson De Oliveira Silveira
Information Systems

Vikas Soni
Finance

Srikrishna Krishnarao Srinivasan
Information Systems

David Watson
Accounting
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Zheyi Xu
Information Systems
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Minqxi Yang
Marketing