Ph.D. Students

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.

More information about my research can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Dl9lWrUAAAAJ&hl=en or
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2452879

Tina Lang is a Ph.D. student in the Leventhal School of Accounting. Her research interests include the information content of disclosure, corporate social responsibility, and disclosure regulation. Prior to the Ph.D. program, Tina worked as a senior tax associate in public accounting for BDO USA and KPMG in Boston. She is a licensed CPA with a Masters of Accountancy and BBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wilson Lin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Data Sciences and Operations department at the USC Marshall School of Business. Wilson's research focuses on understanding and improving human interactions and behavior to enable better performance. He seeks to use empirical methods to study such issues in healthcare, telemedicine, and charitable giving. He earned his M.S. in Operations Research Engineering and B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California in 2017.

Ilya is a first-year Ph.D student in quantitative marketing. Prior to that, he studied Economics in Russia. His research interests include information economics, organizational economics and structural modelling