Faculty Experts
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Lisa E. Baranik
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Employee motivation; workplace mentoring relationships; employee stress; occupational health and well-being; human resource management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Campus phone: 518-956-8324
Campus email: [email protected]

Jacques Bastien
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Lecturer
Department: Informatics
Expert in the following:
Design; entrepreneurship; startups; social media; employment; finances (raising capital for business); blogging and writing; photography and video production
Campus phone: 518-442-5110
Campus email: [email protected]

Rita Biswas
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Finance
Expert in the following:
International corporate finance; international financial markets; macro-finance; cross-border valuation; mergers and acquisitions; emerging markets.
Campus phone: (518) 542-4651
Campus email: [email protected]

William Brigham
School of Business
Director
Department: Small Business Development Center
Expert in the following:
Business plans; e-commerce; marketing plans; licensing & regulations
Campus phone: 485-7647
Campus email: [email protected]
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Uday Chandra
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Accounting and Law
Expert in the following:
Accounting for revenues; information flows around financing events; information content of accounting data.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8327
Campus email: uchandra (at) albany.edu

Pinka Chatterji
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Economics
Expert in the following:
Health economics
Campus phone: (518) 442-4746
Campus email: [email protected]

InduShobha Chengalur-Smith
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Virtual communities; technology adoption and implementation; information quality and security
Campus phone: (518) 956-8315
Campus email: [email protected]

Thomas J. Collura
School of Business
Director
Department: Accounting and Law
Expert in the following:
Estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxation; individual, fiduciary, and pass-through entity (S corporation and partnership) income taxation; formation and governance of New York corporations and limited liability companies; business succession; planning and administration for trusts and estates.
Campus phone: (518) 433-2443
Campus email: [email protected]

Suraj Commuri
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Household decision-making; brand counterfeiting; Internet word-of-mouth; consumer-generated content
Campus phone: (518) 227-0303
Campus email: [email protected]
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Matthew P. Crayne
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
leader error; micro and macro-organizational leadership processes, industrial-organizational psychology; management
Campus phone: 518-956-8371
Campus email: [email protected]

Na Dai
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Finance
Expert in the following:
Venture Capital and Private Equity; Financing of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Hedge Funds, Regulation and Governance.
Campus phone: 518-956-8358
Campus email: [email protected]

Beth DuFault
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Culture, change, and consumer behavior
Campus phone: 518-956-8389
Campus email: [email protected]

Kathy Enget
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Accounting and Law
Expert in the following:
Prevention and detection of financial fraud; proactive data analytics; continuous auditing; continuous monitoring
Campus phone: (518) 956-8190
Campus email: [email protected]
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Liyue Fan
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Information Security and Digital Forensics
Expert in the following:
Privacy-preserving data sharing; spatial/temporal databases; data stream management; anomaly detection.
Campus phone: 518-956-8323
Campus email: [email protected]

Sanjay Goel
School of Business
Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Information security; hacking; computer forensics; risk analysis; cybersecurity; wireless security; botnets (zombie computers); nanosensor networks; optimization
Campus phone: (518) 956-8323
Campus email: [email protected]

Matt Grattan
University at Albany
Director of Community & Economic Development
Department: Division for Research
Expert in the following:
Workforce Development, economic development, Start-UP NY, business development, community development, business incubation, business acceleration
Campus phone: (518) 956-8177
Campus email: [email protected]

David Hochfelder
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
Campus phone: (518) 442-5348
Campus email: [email protected]
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Mark Hughes
School of Business
Director
Department: Accounting and Law
Expert in the following:
Financial statement and internal control auditing; audit applications of natural language processing (NLP); data analytics; small, micro-business; not-for-profit accounting
Campus phone: (518) 283-3209
Campus email: [email protected]

Michael Jerison
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Economics
Expert in the following:
Economics Nobel prize winners; cost benefit analysis and economic impact statements for government funded projects; tax systems and tax reform, flat tax, consumption tax, corporate income tax; price index and measurement of economic welfare; immigration policy; economic theory
Campus phone: (518) 442-4287
Campus email: [email protected]

Richard D. Johnson
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Human Resource Information Systems; e-learning; psychological and sociological impacts of technology; psychology and computer use; motivation; the Digital Divide; managing millennials
Campus phone: 442-3020
Campus email: [email protected]

Ioannis Kareklas
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Prosocial Behavior; Advertising Effectiveness; Sensory Perception; Public Health; Organic Consumption
Campus phone: (518) 956-8373
Campus email: [email protected]

Victoria Kisekka
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Information Security and Digital Forensics
Expert in the following:
Campus phone: (518) 956-8361
Campus email: [email protected]

Aleksandra Kovacheva
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Consumer behavior; marketing strategy; purchase decisions under risk and uncertainty; surprise products; group experiences; effort and control in consumer decision making; marketing analytics; marketing research; use of eye-tracking in marketing.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8372
Campus email: [email protected]
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Jungwon Kuem
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Information system users' behaviors; phishing; cyberloafing; social networking; online communities; IT addiction
Campus phone: (518) 956-8182
Campus email: [email protected]

Kajal Lahiri
College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Department: Economics
Expert in the following:
Economic forecasting; applied econometrics; economics of health and disability; New York State economy; New York regional economic trends; economics of energy; transportation economics; energy/gasoline prices
Campus phone: (518) 442-4758
Campus email: [email protected]

Robert Manasier
University at Albany
Entrepreneur in Residence/New Ventures Manager
Department: Division for Research
Expert in the following:
Entrepreneurship; mentoring and coaching; small business development; startup businesses
Campus phone: (845) 494-3993
Campus email: [email protected]

Paul Miesing
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8348
Campus email: [email protected]
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Maria Pidgeon
University at Albany
Associate Director
Department: Division of Research
Expert in the following:
Entrepreneurship, economic development, Internships, Innovation Hot Spot, business development, community development, business incubation
Campus phone: (518) 956-8216
Campus email: [email protected]
Elizabeth Searing
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Assistant Professor
Department: Public Administration and Policy
Expert in the following:
Nonprofits; social enterprise; financial management
Campus phone: (518) 442-2621
Campus email: [email protected]

Nilanjan Sen
School of Business
Professor and Dean
Department: Finance
Expert in the following:
Corporate governance; mergers; acquisitions; international finance
Campus phone: 518-956-8370
Campus email: [email protected]

Hany Shawky
School of Business
Interim Dean
Department: Finance
Expert in the following:
Petrol and energy related issues; stock market behavior; institutional portfolio management
Campus phone: (518) 956-8337
Campus email: [email protected]

David Turetsky
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Lecturer
Department: Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Expert in the following:
Cybersecurity: policy, regulation, public-private partnerships, information sharing, market incentives, international norms, national security, elections, privacy. Emergency communications: 9-1-1 system, wireless emergency alerts, network reliability and resilience, FirstNet, etc.
Campus phone: 518-442-5289
Campus email: [email protected]

William J. Wales
School of Business
Standish Professor of Entrepreneurship
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Campus phone: (518) 478-6044
Campus email: [email protected]
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Hillary Wiener
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Marketing
Expert in the following:
Marketing; marketing research; marketing strategy; consumer behavior; consumer psychology; marketing and social relationships; friendship formation; conversation; gift-giving; social support; emoji.
Campus phone: (518) 956-8339
Campus email: [email protected]