Focus on Authors
Jorge Alé-Chilet (“Beyond Consumer Switching: Supply Responses to Food Packaging and Advertising Regulations”) is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He holds a BA in business administration and a PhD in economics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Asim Ansari (“Letting Logos Speak: Leveraging Multiview Representation Learning for Data-Driven Branding and Logo Design”) is the William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing at Columbia University. His research focuses on digital marketing, social networks and user personalization in e-commerce settings using probabilistic machine learning and Bayesian approaches. He received his PhD from New York University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Shirsho Biswas (“Frontiers: The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Noncompliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”) is an assistant professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Washington. He graduated with a PhD in marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2020. His research interests include studying consumer response to advertising and media by employing both large-scale field experimentation and econometric analysis.
Ryan Dew (“Letting Logos Speak: Leveraging Multiview Representation Learning for Data-Driven Branding and Logo Design”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is broadly interested in the intersection of modern probabilistic machine learning and marketing with a focus on problems in customer analytics, preference measurement, and data-driven design. He received his PhD in marketing from Columbia University and his BA in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jean-Pierre Dubé (“Frontiers: The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Noncompliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”) is the James M. Kilts Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing at the University of Chicago, director of the Kilts Center for Marketing, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an academic trustee for the Marketing Science Institute.
Shantanu Dutta (“Platform Service Offering to Business Customers: Strategic Considerations in Engendering Seller Use of Marketing Tools”) is the Dave and Jeanne Tappan Chair Professor in Marketing at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. His research interest is in exploring strategic marketing issues in B2B marketing, including technology intensive markets. Shantanu is also the co-academic director of the joint USC–Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry.
Renato Giroldo (“Winning Big: Scale and Success in Retail Entrepreneurship”) earned his PhD in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. He is an associate at Cornerstone Research.
Avery Haviv (“Consumer Search, Price Promotions, and Counter-Cyclic Pricing”) is an associate professor of marketing at the Simon Business School. To study firms, Avery uses advertising and brand building using structural, dynamic models of firm behavior. He also has interests in consumer search and the video game industry. His work has been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing, and Operations Research.
Brett Hollenbeck (“Winning Big: Scale and Success in Retail Entrepreneurship”) earned his PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014. He is an assistant professor of Marketing at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Sylvia Hristakeva (“Determinants of Channel Profitability: Retailers’ Control over Product Selections as Contracting Leverage”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles. Her research provides empirical insights on how vertical relations affect market competition, product availability, and welfare. She analyzes setting when contracts between firms are unobserved, with policy and managerial contributions, as well as methodological advances.
Sreya Kolay (“Optimal Bundling of Events”) is an assistant professor at the School of Business, SUNY Albany. She examines marketing problems using economic analysis, and has published in journals such as Management Science, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. She received her BS in economics from Presidency College, Calcutta, a MS in quantitative economics from the Indian Statistical Institute, and her PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.
Kanishka Misra (“Frontiers: Impact of Stay-at-Home-Orders and Cost-of-Living on Stimulus Response: Evidence from the CARES Act”) is an associate professor of marketing at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. Misra’s research considers the area of pricing and public policy. His research has been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Econometrics, and the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics and Psychological Science. Misra earned a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and a PhD from Northwestern University in 2010.
Sarah Moshary (“Beyond Consumer Switching: Supply Responses to Food Packaging and Advertising Regulations”) is an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Her work lies at the intersection of quantitative marketing, industrial organization, and political economy. She holds an AB in economics from Harvard and a PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She previously worked at the University of Pennsylvania and eBay.
Yi Qian (“Simplifying Bias Correction for Selective Sampling: A Unified Distribution-Free Approach to Handling Endogenously Selected Samples”) is a faculty at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC). She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She holds a BA in economics, MA in statistics, and PhD in economics from Harvard University. Before joining UBC, she served as a faculty at the Kellogg School of Management. Her methodological research is centered on causal inference. Her substantive research is centered on the economics of intellectual property and brand management against counterfeiting.
Szymon Sacher (“Frontiers: The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Noncompliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”) is a PhD candidate in economics at Columbia University, New York. His research focuses on industrial organization and public finance, often using unstructured data. He obtained his master's degree from the University of Edinburgh.
Andrey Simonov (“Frontiers: The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: Noncompliance with Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic”) is an associate professor in the Marketing Division of Columbia Business School, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Economics of Columbia University, and a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
Vishal Singh (“Frontiers: Impact of Stay-at-Home-Orders and Cost-of-Living on Stimulus Response: Evidence from the CARES Act”) is a professor at NYU Stern School of Business. His general research interests lie in the domain of data driven business strategies, with a focus on retail competition, competitive pricing, and empirical industrial organization. His more recent work focuses on leveraging large databases to generate psychological insights and guide policies in public health. He has published articles in several scholarly journals, and his work has been highlighted in several popular press articles such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. At Stern, he teaches “Data Driven Decision Making” to MBA and executives. Professor Singh received his PhD in Marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 2003.
Olivier Toubia (“Letting Logos Speak: Leveraging Multiview Representation Learning for Data-Driven Branding and Logo Design”) is the Glaubinger Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where he also serves as the chair of the marketing division. His research focuses on various aspects of innovation, including preference measurement and idea generation. Specifically, he combines methods from social sciences and data science in order to study human processes, such as motivation, choice, and creativity. He received his MS in operations research and PhD in marketing from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Rajeev K. Tyagi (“Optimal Bundling of Events”) is a professor and the Walter B. Gerken Chair at the Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the economics of marketing strategy and he has published in journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, and the Journal of Marketing Research. He received his undergraduate degree in electronics engineering, MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and his PhD from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Hui Xie (“Simplifying Bias Correction for Selective Sampling: A Unified Distribution-Free Approach to Handling Endogenously Selected Samples”) is Maureen and Milan Illich/Merck Chair Professor in Statistics in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University and a research scientist at Arthritis Research Canada. He obtained his BS from Peking University, MS from Purdue University, and PhD in biostatistics from Columbia University. His research interests include developing causal analytical methods for large observational data and for data combination from different sources.
Botao Yang (“Platform Service Offering to Business Customers: Strategic Considerations in Engendering Seller Use of Marketing Tools”) is an associate professor of marketing at California State University at Long Beach. The main area of his research is technology adoption, and his current research interests are digital marketing and e-commerce. He received his PhD in marketing from the University of Toronto.
Sha Yang (“Platform Service Offering to Business Customers: Strategic Considerations in Engendering Seller Use of Marketing Tools”) is the Ernest Hahn Professor of Marketing at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Her research interest is to derive insights on consumers and competition through economic/statistical modeling and data analytics with special focuses on internet advertising, social media, pricing, and platforms. She is an associate editor at Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing. She is also the vice dean for faculty and academic affairs at the Marshall School.
Qianyun Poppy Zhang (“Frontiers: Impact of Stay-at-Home-Orders and Cost-of-Living on Stimulus Response: Evidence from the CARES Act”) is a research scientist at Facebook. She’s interested in social network advertising, consumer behavior under uncertainty, information search, and decision making. Her PhD works focus on understanding how people search and use the information they receive to make decisions. She’s currently working within the Networks and Behavior team on gaining a better understanding of social network and user interactions, and leverage that understanding to develop solutions for better Facebook products. She received her PhD in marketing as well as her MS in marketing from New York University, and she interned at Microsoft Research.
