Our group brings together faculty, graduate students, research assistants, and visiting scholars with shared research interests in AI for business and society.
Core Members
Gene Moo Lee / 이진무
Director / Associate Professor, UBC Sauder.
Ph.D., UT Austin (2015) [Website] [LinkedIn] [GScholar] [Appointment]
Xiaoke Zhang (co-advisor: Mi Zhou)
Ph.D. Student (2023-current), UBC Sauder.
Angela Eunyoung Kwon
Ph.D. Student (2024-current), UBC Sauder.
[LinkedIn]
Visiting Scholars
Fengyao Wang (advisor: Jae Kyu Lee)
Visiting Ph.D. student (2025-2026), Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xinzhe Li (advisors: Jaekyeong Kim, Min Hyung Ryu)
Visiting Scholar (2027), Kyung Hee University
Former Ph.D. Students
Jaecheol Park
Ph.D., UBC (2020-2025). First Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University.
[Website] [LinkedIn] [GScholar] [Dissertation: AI Strategies]
Myunghwan Lee
Ph.D., UBC (2019-2024). First Placement: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
[Website] [LinkedIn] [GScholar] [Dissertation: AI & Innovation]
Yunsik Choi (advisor: Andrew Whinston)
Ph.D., UT Austin (2016-2019). First Placement: Research Scientist, AITRICS.
[LinkedIn] [Dissertation: Organizational Cybersecurity]
Former M.Sc. Students
Xiaoke Zhang (co-advised with Mi Zhou)
M.Sc. (2021-2023), UBC. Now a PhD student at UBC.
[LinkedIn] [Thesis: AI Voice and Video Creation]
Rui Cao (co-advised with Hasan Cavusoglu)
M.Sc. (2018-2020), UBC. Now Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong.
[Website] [Google Scholar] [Thesis: Corporate Social Network]
Victor Song (co-advised with Hasan Cavusoglu)
M.Sc. (2017-2019), UBC. Now Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services.
[LinkedIn] [Thesis: IT Risk and Stock Crashes]
Affiliated Faculty Members
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]
Former Visiting Students
Suhan Woo (advisor: JungJoo Jahng)
Visiting Ph.D. student (2025), Seoul National University.
[Website]
Tim Schurig (advisors: Martin Gersch, Daniel Fuerstenau)
Visiting Ph.D. Student (2025), FU Berlin.
Lin (Lynn) Yuan
Visiting Ph.D. student (2022-2024). Now at City University of Hong Kong.
[LinkedIn]
Matthias Schulte-Althoff (advisor: Daniel Fuerstenau)
Visiting Ph.D. Student (2021), FU Berlin.
Former Research and Teaching Assistants
Raymond Situ
Research Assistant (2018-2023), UBC Sauder.
[LinkedIn]
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]
- Hyunkyung Park, Ministry of the Interior and Safety (행정안전부), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, June 2027-June 2028.
- Taeseung Lee, Ministry of Patriots and Veteran Affairs (국가보훈부), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, June 2025-June 2026.
- Seolhee Jeong, Ministry of Patriots and Veteran Affairs (국가보훈부), Korea 1+1 Matching Program, June 2024-June 2025.
- 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.
- C. Y. Choi, UT Arlington, Visiting Professor, March 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eddie Jung, BUCS, UBC, Feb 2026 – ongoing. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
- Dongyun Nam, CS, Korea Univ, Feb 2026 – ongoing. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
- Jiafang (Jeffrey) Sun, MBAN, UBC, Nov 2025 – ongoing. (Mentor: Xiaoke Zhang)
- Chion Kim, MBAN, UBC, April 2025 – July 2026. (Mentor: Marcela Hernandez)
- Pranav Mehta, MBAN, UBC, July 2025 – July 2026. (Mentor: Marcela Hernandez)
- Myunghoon Hwang, BS, UBC, May 2025 – ongoing. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
- Jihoon Hwang, BS, UBC, May 2025 – ongoing. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
- Ria Khatau, Riverside Secondary School, Jan 2026. (Mentor: Xiaoke Zhang)
- Yousef Jafarnia, MBAN, UBC, July 2025 – Oct 2025. (Mentor: Marcela Hernandez)
- Krystal Li, MBAN, UBC, Mar 2025 – July 2025. (Mentor: Xiaoke Zhang)
- Shana Kearney, Riverside Secondary School, Jan 2025. (Mentor: Angela Kwon)
- Vibudh Singh, MBAN, UBC, Nov 2024 – Dec 2024. (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
- Chaeyoon Kim, Yonsei, Nov 2024 – Jan 2025 (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
- Minsuk Seo, BS, UBC, July-Sept 2024. (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
- Aazmain Aarib, Riverside Secondary School, Jan 2024. (Mentor: Jaecheol Park)
- Zhe Li, MS in MIS, UBC, Nov-Dec 2023.
- Eugenie Lai, BUCS, UBC, April-June 2020. (PhD student, MIT)
- Allen Gour, BUCS, UBC Oct-Dec 2019. (AI Engineer, Google)
- Jessica Yang, BUCS, UBC, Oct-Dec 2019. (Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
- Jialin (Gallant) Tang, BUCS, UBC, June 2019 – May 2021. (Associate Consultant, IBM)
- Christina Cheung, CS, UBC, Jan-April 2019.
- Eamonn Keane, BUCS, UBC, Jan-April 2019. (Software Engineer, Microsoft)
- Bob Zhang, BUCS, UBC, Nov 2018 – Jan 2019. (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft)
- Abishek Ganesh, MS in IS, UT Arlington, June – Oct 2018. (Big Data Architect, Squaredon)
- Austin Cho, BUCS, UBC, May-July 2018. (Software Developer, SAP)
- Hongki Kim, Ph.D., UBC, Sep-Oct 2017. (Assistant Professor, Clemson University)
- Drishti Kapoor, MS in IS, UT Arlington, Jan-May 2017. (Data Engineer 3, Asurion)
Note for prospective students and postdoc researchers