The latest news from the PhD department including student, faculty and alumni updates.
We are pleased to formally acknowledge that Parbudyal Singh, PhD alumni, on receiving the Distinguished Human Resources Professional (DHRP) award. Parbudyal graduated from the MOBHR PhD program in 1998, and was supervised by Naresh Agarwal. He is currently working as a professor at York University in the School of Human Resource Management (HRM). The DHRP award is given … Continue reading PhD Alumni Parbudyal Singh Receives Distinguished Human Resources Professional (DHRP) Award
Please join me in congratulating Fariba Nosrati, Information Systems student supervised by Dr. Detlor, on her acceptance to the ICIS 2018 Doctoral Consortium to be held in Pacific Grove, CA this December. The consortium runs in conjunction with the prestigious International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) annual conference. Back in the Spring, the IS … Continue reading Congratulations Fariba on her acceptance to ICIS 2018 Doctoral Consortium
We are pleased to formally acknowledge Ali Vaezi’s successful defence of his dissertation titled “Risk Mitigation and Management Strategies for Routing Hazardous Materials over Railroad Network in Canada”. Ali was supervised by Manish Verma and his supervisory committee members include Elkafi Hassini and Kai Huang. Ali came to our PhD program with a M.Sc from Politecnico … Continue reading Ali Vaezi Successfully Defended Dissertation
We are pleased to formally acknowledge Sepideh Ebrahimi’s successful defence of her dissertation titled “Demographic Transparency to Combat Discriminatory Data Analytics Recommendations”. Sepideh was supervised by Khaled Hassanein and her supervisory committee members include Milena Head and Yufei Yuan. Sepideh came to our PhD program with a M.Sc from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and a B.Sc from … Continue reading Sepideh Ebrahimi Successfully Defended Dissertation
We are happy to announce that PhD Ali Vaezi has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Risk Mitigation and Management Strategies for Routing Hazardous Materials over Railroad Network in Canada”. Please join us in congratulating Ali for reaching this important milestone. Ali is a PhD student in the Management Science field. Thanks go to his supervisor Manish Verma , and his supervisory … Continue reading Ali Vaezi Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal
We are happy to announce that PhD Jie Chu has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Robust Inventory Management under Supply and Demand Uncertainties”. Please join us in congratulating Jie for reaching this important milestone. Jie is a PhD student in the Management Science field. Thanks go to his supervisor Kai Huang , and his supervisory committee members, Elkafi … Continue reading Jie Chu Successfully Defended Thesis Proposal
We are pleased to formally acknowledge Azam Shamsi’s successful defence of her dissertation titled “Three Essays on Modeling Asset Returns: A Nonparametric Approach”. Azam was supervised by John Maheu and her supervisory committee members were Ronald Balvers and Jeffery Racine. Azam joined our PhD Program after completing Sharif University of Technology’s Master of Science, Social-Economic Systems. She earned … Continue reading Azam Shamsi Successfully Defended Dissertation
We are happy to announce that Armagan Ozbilge, our second year PhD student in the Management Science Field, has won this year’s McMaster’s Three-Minute Thesis Award! The award comes with a prize of $500. This is a university wide competition where graduate students from all faculties create one slide summarizing their research and present it. … Continue reading McMaster’s Three-Minute Thesis Award
We would like to acknowledge the following students who successfully defended their thesis proposals or their thesis in the end of the summer and the fall of 2017. Thesis Defences Name Field Title Supervisor Hao Luo Finance Three Essays on Asset Pricing Ronald Balvers Jennifer Miele Finance Three Essays in Behavioral and Corporate Finance Richard … Continue reading Congratulations! Thesis Proposal and Dissertation Defences from Summer and Fall 2017
We are pleased to formally acknowledge Elly (Zhaocheng) Zeng‘s successful defence of her dissertation titled “A Systematic Analysis of Entrepreneurial Learning: Practice and Effects”. Elly was supervised by Benson Honig and her supervisory committee members were Vishwanath Baba and Willi Wiesner. Elly joined our PhD Program after completing McMaster’s Master of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation. … Continue reading Elly (Zhaocheng) Zeng Successfully Defended Dissertation
