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Has your supervisor played a pivotal role in your graduate experience? Perhaps one of your teaching assistants made a difference and deserves kudos for all of their efforts. Do you know a grad student athlete who has made an outstanding contribution as a team builder? Nominations will soon close for the annual McMaster Graduate Student … Continue reading 2020 Graduate Student Recognition Awards

We are happy to announce that PhD Punit Anand has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Three Essays on Asset Pricing”. Please join us in congratulating Punit for reaching this important milestone. Punit is a PhD student in the Finance field. Thanks go to his supervisor Ron Balvers, as well as his supervisory committee members, Narat Charupat … Continue reading Punit Anand Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal

We are happy to announce that PhD Xiao Ling has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Asymmetric Pricing “in the small”: Scale and Scope at Retail Grocery”. Please join us in congratulating Xiao for reaching this important milestone. Xiao is a PhD student in the Marketing field. Thanks go to his supervisor Sourav Ray, as … Continue reading Xiao Ling Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal

We are happy to announce that PhD Ahmed Fares has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Trust and Its Antecedents in Semi-Autonomous Information Systems: The Case of Bitcoin”. Please join us in congratulating Ahmed for reaching this important milestone. Ahmed is a PhD student in the Information Systems field. Thanks go to his supervisor Khaled Hassanein, as … Continue reading Ahmed Fares Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal

We are pleased to formally acknowledge Zehua Zhang’s successful defence of his dissertation titled “Three Essays on Stochastic Volatility with Volatility Measures”. Zehua was supervised by Trevor Chamberlain and the two other members of his supervisory committee were Narat Charupat and John Maheu. Zehua came to our PhD program with an MA in Economics and … Continue reading Zehua Zhang Successfully Defends Dissertation

We are pleased to formally acknowledge Robin (Chenxing) Li’s successful defence of his dissertation titled “Three Essays on Forecasting Return Distributions with Mixture Modelling”. Robin was supervised by John Maheu and the three other members of his supervisory committee were Narat Charupat, Dean Mountain, and Shui Feng. Robin came to our PhD program with a Master of Finance from Saint … Continue reading Robin (Chenxing) Li Successfully Defends Dissertation

We are pleased to formally acknowledge Mohammad Hossein (Naim) Tajvarpour’s successful defence of his dissertation titled “Success Factors for Crowdfunding Campaigns”. Mohammad was supervised byDevashish Pujari and his supervisory committee members were Ken Deal and Manish Kacker. Mohammad came to our PhD program with an MBA from Sharif University of Technology. While enrolled in our … Continue reading Mohammad Hossein Tajvarpour Successfully Defends Dissertation

We are happy to announce that PhD Maheeya Mujib has successfully defended her thesis proposal titled “Looking Through a Parasocial Lens to Understand Effects of User Engagement and Wellbeing on Parasocial Relations in a Social Media Context”. Please join us in congratulating Maheeya for reaching this important milestone. Maheeya is a PhD student in the … Continue reading Maheeya Mujib Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal

We are happy to announce that PhD Shuai Zhang has successfully defended his thesis proposal titled “Data-driven spare parts inventory management for durable consumer goods”. Please join us in congratulating Shuai for reaching this important milestone. Shuai is a PhD student in the Management Science field. Thanks go to his supervisor Kai Huang, as well … Continue reading Shuai Zhang Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal

We are happy to announce that PhD Mariam Munawar has successfully defended her thesis proposal titled “The Impact of Homophily and Herd Size on Decision Confidence: A Social Identity Approach”. Please join us in congratulating Mariam for reaching this important milestone. Mariam is a PhD student in the Information Systems field. Thanks go to her … Continue reading Mariam Munawar Successfully Defends Thesis Proposal