Faculty

The Ph.D. in Business Administration program willl draw primarily upon faculty from the Department of Finance and the Department of Economics in the Belk College of Business, with support from the Department of Mathematics from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Below is a list of faculty members from each department who will participate in the program. Links to the various departmental webpages and to faculty pages are highlighted below. Biographical information for professors from the Belk College is also available at the Belk College faculty homepage.

Finance

• Lloyd Blenman, Associate Professor (Ph.D. The Ohio State University)
  Finance Theory, Derivatives, International Finance

• Richard Buttimer, Associate Professor and Ph.D. Program Director ( Ph.D. The University of Georgia)
  Derivatives, Real Estate Finance, Fixed Income Finance

• Steven Clark, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Clemson University)
  Mathematical Finance, Derivatives, Corporate Finance

• Ben Nunnally, Professor (D.B.A. University of Virginia)
  Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Capital Investments

• Steven Ott, John Crosland Sr. Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance & Development (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  Derivatives, Financial Markets, Real Estate Finance

• Tony Plath, Associate Professor (D.B.A. Kent State University)
  Banking, Financial Institutions

• C. William Sealey, Torrence E. Hemby Distinguished Professor in Banking and Chair, Department of Finance ( Ph.D. University of Georgia)
  Banking, Derivatives, Financial Institutions

Economics

• L. Ted Amato, Professor ( Ph.D. University of South Carolina)
  Industrial Organization, Econometrics                

• John Gandar, Associate Dean and Professor (Ph.D. University of Missouri)
  Financial and Sports Economics, Microeconomics   

• Hwan Lin, Associate Professor ( Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Economic Growth, Public Finance, Microeconomics

• Rob Roy McGregor, Associate Professor and Coordinator of M.S. in Economics (Ph.D. University of South Carolina)
  Monetary Economics, Econometrics, Macroeconomics

• Stanislav Radchenko, Assistant Professor ( Ph.D. Rutgers University)
  Time Series, Bayesian Econometrics, Industrial Organization

• Ben Russo, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Iowa)
  Public Policy, Economic Growth, Macroeconomics

• Jennifer Troyer, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Florida State University)
  Health Economics, Econometrics, Labor Economics

• Rick Zuber, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics ( Ph.D. University of Kentucky)
  Financial Economics, Sports Economics

Mathematics

• Joel Avrin, Professor ( Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley)
  Real Analysis
  
• Robert Anderson, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Minnesota)
  Probability and Stochastics
  
• Jaya Bishwal, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Sambalpur University)
  
• Wei Cai, Professor ( Ph.D. Brown University)
  Computational and Numerical Analysis
  
• Zongwu Cai, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of California - Davis)
  Statistics
  
• Janusz Kawczak, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Western Ontario)
  Statistics, Actuarial Science
  
• Michael Klibanov, Professor (Ph.D., D.S. Ural State University, Novosibirsk State University)
  Inverse Problem and Numerical Methods
  
• Alex Papadopoulos, Professor ( Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
  Statistics
  
• Joseph Quinn, Professor (Ph.D. Michigan State University)
  Probability and Stochastics
  
• Isaac Sonin, Professor (Ph.D. Moscow State University)
  Probability and Stochastics
  
• Volker Wihstutz, Professor (Ph.D. University of Bremen)
  Probability and Stochastics
  
• Mingxin Xu, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University)
  Stochastic Calculus, Derivatives
  
• Zhi Yi Zhang, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Rutgers University)
  Statistics
  
• You Lan Zhu, Professor (Ph.D. Qinghua University)
  Derivatives, Computation, and Option Pricing

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