Ph.D. Students

Jihoon Hong is a Ph.D. student in Marketing specializing in quantitative marketing. He is broadly interested in crowdfunding, innovation, and new product development. Before coming to Marshall, he worked as an R&D engineer for a leading telecommunications company and electronics company in South Korea.

Michael Huang is a PhD student in the Data Science and Operations department in the Marshall School of Business. He previously studied Operations Research at Columbia University where he worked on research in healthcare operations. His research interests are in developing better optimization methods and algorithms to improve decision making under uncertainty.

Jung Koo Kang is a PhD student in Accounting. He graduated from Korea University with a Bachelor's Degree in Business and earned a Master's Degree in Statistics from University of Minnesota. Prior to joining the Marshall PhD Program, he worked as an auditor, credit rating analyst and loan officer. His research interests are in debt contracting, credit rating agency, financial institutions and bank regulation.