Members

Our group comprises faculty, graduate students, research assistants, and visiting scholars, who have a passion for data analytics and AI in business research.

Core Members

Gene Moo Lee  /  이진무 

Director / Associate Professor, UBC Sauder.

Ph.D., UT Austin (2015) [Website] [LinkedIn] [Google Scholar]

Xiaoke Zhang (co-advisor: Mi Zhou)

Ph.D. Student (2023-current), UBC Sauder.

[LinkedIn]

Angela Eunyoung Kwon 

Ph.D. Student (2024-current), UBC Sauder.

[LinkedIn]

Affiliated Faculty Members

Myunghwan Lee

Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ph.D., UBC (2019-2024) [Website] [LinkedIn] [GScholar] [Dissertation]

Jaecheol Park

Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University.

Ph.D., UBC (2020-2025) [Website] [LinkedIn] [GScholar] [Dissertation]

Wooje Cho, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Seoul National University.

Visited UBC in 2023-2024 [Website]

Dongwon Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, HKUST

Affiliated Faculty (2023-) [Website] [Google Scholar]

Visiting PhD students

Suhan Woo (advisor: JungJoo Jahng)

Visiting Ph.D. student (2025), Seoul National University.

[Website]

Fengyao Wang (advisor: Jae Kyu Lee)

Visiting Ph.D. student (2025-2026), Xi’an Jiaotong University

[Google Scholar]

Former Students

Tim Schurig (advisors: Martin Gersch, Daniel Fuerstenau)

Visiting Ph.D. Student (2025), FU Berlin.

[Website] [LinkedIn]

Lynn Yuan

Visiting PhD student (2022-2024). Now at City University of Hong Kong.

 

Raymond Situ

Research Assistant (2018-2023), UBC Sauder.

[LinkedIn]

Xiaoke Zhang, M.Sc. (co-advised with Mi Zhou)

M.Sc. Student (2021-2023), UBC. Now PhD student at UBC.

[LinkedIn] [Thesis: AI-Generated Voice and Video Creation]

Matthias Schulte-Althoff (advisor: Daniel Fuerstenau)

Visiting Ph.D. Student (2021), FU Berlin.

[LinkedIn] [Google Scholar]

Rui Cao, M.Sc. (co-advised with Hasan Cavusoglu)

M.Sc. Student (2018-2020), UBC. Now PhD student at UBC.

[Google Scholar] [Thesis: Corporate Social Network]

Yunsik Choi, Ph.D. (advisor: Andrew Whinston)

Ph.D. Student (2016-2019), UT Austin. Chief Experience Officer at The Trive.

[LinkedIn] [Dissertation: Organizational Cybersecurity]

Victor Song, M.Sc. (co-advised with Hasan Cavusoglu)

M.Sc. Student (2017-2019), UBC. Software Development Consultant at BC Hydro.

[LinkedIn] [Thesis: IT Risk and Stock Price Crashes]

Miguel Valarao, BCom (BUCS)

Research Assistant (2018 – 2019), UBC. Software Development Engineer at Amazon.

[LinkedIn]

Sahil Jain, MBAN

Research Assistant (2018), UBC. Manager at McKinsey.

[LinkedIn]

Bolat Khojayev, BCom (BUCS)

Research Assistant (2018), UBC. Perplexity.

[LinkedIn]

Yash Nigam, M.Sc.

Research Assistant (2017), UT Arlington. Lead Data Engineer at Alo.

[LinkedIn]

Akshay Vadnere, M.Sc.

Research Assistant (2016-2017), UT Arlington. Senior Software Engineer at Apple.

[LinkedIn]

Note for prospective students and postdoc researchers

Other Visiting Scholars
  1. Seolhee Jeong, Ministry of Patriots and Veteran Affairs (국가보훈부), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, June 2024-June 2025.
  2. Cheolho Kim, Korean Intellectual Property Office (특허청), Korea 1+1 Matching Program,  Final Report: “Research on Ways to Improve Carbon-Neutral R&D Competitiveness Based on Patent Big Data”, Sep 2023-June 2024.
  3. C. Y. Choi, UT Arlington, Visiting Professor, March 2023.
  4. Youngcheol Lee, Office of Government Policy Coordination (국무조정실), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, Final Report: “Enhancing Cybersecurity Response Systems to Establish a Solid Foundation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, Sep 2022-May 2023.
  5. Eun Hong Min, Military Manpower Administration of Korea (병무청), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, Final Report: “A Study of Efficient Supply Management of Military Human Resources Using Big Data and Analytics”, Sep 2020 – Dec 2020.
Other Research/Teaching Assistants
  1. Myunghoon Hwang, BS, UBC, May 2025 – ongoing (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
  2. Jihoon Hwang, BS, UBC, May 2025 – ongoing (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
  3. Chion Kim, MBAN, UBC, April 2025 – ongoing (Mentor: DXL team)
  4. Krystal Li, MBAN, UBC, Mar 2025 – ongoing. (Mentor: Xiaoke Zhang)
  5. Yousef Jafarnia, MBAN, UBC, July 2025 – ongoing.
  6. Vibudh Singh, MBAN, UBC, Nov 2024 – ongoing. (Lead ML Engineer, S&P Global)
  7. Shana Kearney, Riverside Secondary School, Jan 2025. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
  8. Chaeyoon Kim, Yonsei, Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
  9. Minsuk Seo, BS, UBC, July-Sept 2024. (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
  10. Aazmain Aarib, Riverside Secondary School, Jan 2024. (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
  11. Zhe Li, MS in MIS, UBC, Nov-Dec 2023.
  12. Eugenie Lai, BUCS, UBC, April-June 2020. (PhD student, MIT)
  13. Allen Gour, BUCS, UBC Oct-Dec 2019. (AI Engineer, Google)
  14. Jessica Yang, BUCS, UBC, Oct-Dec 2019. (Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
  15. Jialin (Gallant) Tang, BUCS, UBC, June 2019 – May 2021. (Associate Consultant, IBM)
  16. Christina Cheung, CS, UBC, Jan-April 2019.
  17. Eamonn Keane, BUCS, UBC, Jan-April 2019. (Software Engineer, Microsoft)
  18. Bob Zhang, BUCS, UBC, Nov 2018 – Jan 2019. (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft)
  19. Abishek Ganesh, MS in IS, UT Arlington, June – Oct 2018. (Big Data Architect, Squaredon)
  20. Austin Cho, BUCS, UBC, May-July 2018. (Software Developer, SAP)
  21. Hongki Kim, Ph.D., UBC, Sep-Oct 2017. (Assistant Professor, Clemson University)
  22. Drishti Kapoor, MS in IS, UT Arlington, Jan-May 2017. (Data Engineer 3, Asurion)
University Services
  1. Dujian Ding, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, May 2025.
  2. Soonjae Kwon, Ph.D. in Information Systems (role: committee member), KAIST, April 2025.
  3. Donglian Sheng, Ph.D. in Information Systems (role: external examiner), McGill, Oct 2024.
  4. Ganesh Jawahar, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, March 2024.
  5. Zining Wang, Ph.D. in Marketing (role: university examiner), UBC, March 2024.
  6. Chenkai Li, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (role: exam chair), UBC, Jan 2024.
  7. Ife Adebara, Ph.D. in Linguistics (role: university examiner), UBC, Dec 2023.
  8. Xinyuan Zhang, Ph.D. in Management Science, UBC, August 2023.
  9. Dennis Ma, Ph.D. in OBHR (role: university examiner), UBC, June 2023.
  10. Wen Xiao, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, April 2023.
  11. Hassan Halawa, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (role: exam chair), UBC, March 2023.
  12. Rahul Krisha, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (role: university examiner), UBC, Jan-March 2023.
  13. Pauline Wu, Ph.D. in Accounting (role: university examiner), UBC, May-July 2022.
  14. Dennis Ma, Ph.D. in OBHR (role: committee member), UBC, Jan 2018 – 2023.
Capstone Project Advisees
  1. Harry Chan (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report] (Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
  2. Jacqueline Chong (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report]
  3. Son Chau (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report] (Application Specialist, University Health Network)
  4. Anupriya Srivastava (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report]
  5. Hao Zheng, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product]
  6. Kemjika Ananaba, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product] (Business Analyst, TELUS)
  7. Charlie Qingkang Cao, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product] (Data Analyst, Electronic Arts)
  8. Ziyun (Lily) Liu, MBAN/TeejLab, June–Aug 2020 (Data Analyst, Provincial Health Services Authority)
  9. Sherry Qin, MBAN/TeejLab, June–Aug 2020 (Cards Advisor, Royal Bank of Canada)
  10. Suguna Menon, MBAN/Daanaa Resolution, June–Aug 2020 (Data Ops Analyst, Basis)
  11. Nipun Goyal, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Data Scientist, Canada Energy Regulator)
  12. Prakhar Sinha, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Data Engineer, Article)
  13. Xiang Louis Luo, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Sr. Data Engineer, Flashfood)
  14. Anthony Chiodo (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Business Intelligence Engineer, Amazon)
  15. Daniel Lin (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Data Scientist, Verizon)
  16. Miliban Keyim (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019.  [Demo site] (Data Scientist, Square)
  17. Sarah Watts (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Associate Product Manager, Google)
  18. Ted Thompson (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Machine Learning Researcher, Statistics Canada)
  19. Cem Ozturk (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Senior Data Scientist, PPG)
  20. Tyler Roberts (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Data Engineer, Meta)
  21. Duong Vu (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Data Engineer, UrbanLogiq)