New Faculty - College of Business Administration
The College of Business will welcome five new faculty members.
The College of Business Administration welcomes five new faculty members to their team this fall. These new additions are leaders and innovators in business education.
They are among 54 new faculty members joining the SDSU family this semester — the largest cohort of faculty to be hired by SDSU since the 2007/2008 academic year.
They come to San Diego State University from places around the world, including: Belgium, Iran, and China. One thing they have in common is a passion for learning and teaching.
Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy
Yan Luo, Ph.D. (Queen’s University, 2013), CPA (Illinois) Luo’s research interests include auditing, corporate governance, and quality in financial reporting as well as cross-cultural issues in these areas. Her current research investigates the role of audit in capital formation and economic growth; the impact of corporate governance, combined with the nature of auditor-client management negotiation on financial reporting quality; the determinants and effects of enhanced disclosure on the quality of corporate governance; and effects of regulation on financial reporting quality.
Babak Lotfaliei, Ph.D. (McGill University, 2014) Lotfaliei is an applied theorist in finance. His area of research includes derivatives pricing, credit risk, and their applications to capital structure. His current research applies the structural theory of credit and firms to capital-structure puzzles. He earned his Bachelors in Industrial Engineering and Master in Business Administration from Sharif University of technology in Iran, and Master in Management Science from Queen’s University in Canada.
W.G. Douglas Fernandez, Ph.D. (Florida International University, 2014) Fernandez is an assistant professor of strategic management. His research areas of interest include corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, institutions, and corporate social responsibility. His current research focuses on taking a multidisciplinary approach to corporate governance by exploring the individual, team, and firm level factors that enable boards of directors to effectively serve as strategic advisors to firms engaging in international expansion.
Department of Management Information Systems
Ruoxuan Wang, Ph.D. (University of Florida, 2014) Wang is a scholar in the field of supply chain management and operations management. Her areas of interest include management science—the application of newsvendor problems; green supply chain, especially the sustainability issues for dual channel model; outsourcing contracts; resource sharing; and service planning for power rental industry in achieving supply chain coordination. She is presently developing the optimal outsourcing contracts in the case of a supply chain disruption to effectively coordinate the supply chain, and is investigating the benefit for the combination of advance contracts and spot market when there are multiple power disruptions.
Erlinde Cornelis, Ph.D. (Ghent University, 2013) For her doctoral dissertation, Cornelis studied the persuasive effects of two-sided social marketing messages. In February 2013 she obtained a BAEF Francqui postdoctoral grant to conduct one year of postdoctoral research at SDSU, where she continued her experimental research on two-sided messages. Currently, her research mainly focuses on health communications such as: drug prevention campaigns and healthy diet promotion; social marketing in general; consumers’ emotional intelligence; and attitudinal ambivalence.
