Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Dr. Jay C. Thibodeau is a former auditor and a CPA. He received his BS degree from the University of Connecticut in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1996. Dr. Thibodeau has conducted executive education programs for numerous leading firms including Fidelity Investments, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Stryker, and Bluecoat Technologies. He is […]

Brandon Brown is a lecturer in the DeVos Sport Business Management and Integrated Business programs at UCF. He also serves as the liaison between the DeVos program and league and media contacts. Prior to returning to UCF, he served as an associate professor at the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at NYU and worked with […]

Eric Litton, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Integrated Business department at UCF College of Business. Prior to joining the University of Central Florida, he taught at numerous other institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, and the University of West Indies in Jamaica. He has taught courses ranging from management to finance […]

Vijay Kumar Chopra joined the University of Central Florida as a Lecturer of finance in 2024 after a 25-plus year successful career on Wall Street. He was an equity portfolio manager and quantitative researcher at Deutsche Asset Management, Jacobs Levy, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Mesirow Financial and most recently at DCM Advisors. He received his […]

Dr. Jun-Yeob Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Central Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on entrepreneur and leader personality, with particular emphasis on traits such as weirdness, […]

Aaron is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the University of Central Florida. His research and teaching falls into three mutually reinforcing content domains: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Research Methods. Within these domains, my research emphasizes better understanding the impact of non-economic influences and language on organizational phenomena. I hold a PhD […]

Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora received his M.S. from State University of New York at Buffalo, and his Ph.D. from the University of Insubria, Italy. His research interests include data science on complex networks and large-scale graph analysis, with applications in social, biological, IoT and blockchain networks. Akcora has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and has published […]