Dr. Taewon Yang
Taewon Yang, PH.D., is a Professor and the Department Chair of Accounting and Finance at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB). He earned his B.S. from Korea Aerospace University, an MBA from The Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.Dr. Yang teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, including Corporate Finance, Advanced Corporate Finance, Investment, Case Studies, and MS Excel.
His research focuses on mergers and acquisitions, merger arbitrage, market efficiency, hedge funds, earnings management, and cryptocurrencies. His work has been published in leading journals such as the International Review of Financial Analysis, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Alternative Investments, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, and the Pan-Pacific Journal of Business Research.
Dr. Liang Guo
Liang Guo, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Finance in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at CSUSB. I earned my Ph.D. degree in Finance at UTSA and MBA degree at Boston University. I have also passed all three exams of CFA.
I believe that teaching future business and finance professionals enables me to fulfill in a highly meaningful way a personal goal of service to the community and to my profession. For years I have been responsible for FIN 5460 Student Managed Investment Fund at CSUSB (a.k.a., SMIF, a real-money fund portfolio sponsored by Citizens Business Bank (CBB)) whose purpose is to give the students hands-on experience and the responsibility for managing real money in today’s changing investment world. I guide undergraduate and graduate students every semester through their research, analysis, trading, and portfolio management processes and work with students’ oral and written presentations to the Chief Investment/Financial Officers of CBB. With MY guidance, students gain extensive hands-on experience at performing investment research, investing money, and managing a portfolio before entering the workforce.
The student evaluation in terms of overall approval of my teaching skill for my recent classes is 5.5 out of 6 on average. I would welcome the opportunity to teach a variety of courses, including Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Student Managed Investment Fund, Derivatives, International Finance, Asset Valuation, etc. On the journey of educational enrichment through the classroom experience and extracurricular activities, I work hard to be a mentor, a friend, and a colleague to my students.
In addition, I have endeavored to establish a good pipeline for my research and have strived to be a productive researcher and publish papers in well-regarded journals. My research interests include asset pricing anomalies, financial topics in the emerging markets, public pension funds, style investing and ethical investing, earning managements, political economics, disclosures, etc. So far I have published 1 book and have 16 articles accepted for publication in high-quality journals, including Journal of Futures Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Finance, Journal of Fixed income, and International Review of Economics and Finance. Now I am an associate/ guest editor of 2 business journals and I have been serving on the editorial board and review committee for more than 20 business journals and organizations.
I believe that teaching future business and finance professionals enables me to fulfill in a highly meaningful way a personal goal of service to the community and to my profession. For years I have been responsible for FIN 5460 Student Managed Investment Fund at CSUSB (a.k.a., SMIF, a real-money fund portfolio sponsored by Citizens Business Bank (CBB)) whose purpose is to give the students hands-on experience and the responsibility for managing real money in today’s changing investment world. I guide undergraduate and graduate students every semester through their research, analysis, trading, and portfolio management processes and work with students’ oral and written presentations to the Chief Investment/Financial Officers of CBB. With MY guidance, students gain extensive hands-on experience at performing investment research, investing money, and managing a portfolio before entering the workforce.
The student evaluation in terms of overall approval of my teaching skill for my recent classes is 5.5 out of 6 on average. I would welcome the opportunity to teach a variety of courses, including Corporate Finance, Investments, Portfolio Management, Student Managed Investment Fund, Derivatives, International Finance, Asset Valuation, etc. On the journey of educational enrichment through the classroom experience and extracurricular activities, I work hard to be a mentor, a friend, and a colleague to my students.
In addition, I have endeavored to establish a good pipeline for my research and have strived to be a productive researcher and publish papers in well-regarded journals. My research interests include asset pricing anomalies, financial topics in the emerging markets, public pension funds, style investing and ethical investing, earning managements, political economics, disclosures, etc. So far I have published 1 book and have 16 articles accepted for publication in high-quality journals, including Journal of Futures Markets, International Review of Financial Analysis, International Review of Finance, Journal of Fixed income, and International Review of Economics and Finance. Now I am an associate/ guest editor of 2 business journals and I have been serving on the editorial board and review committee for more than 20 business journals and organizations.
Dr. Mark Chang
Mark Chang, Ph.D., was the Senior Manager of Technology and Data Compliance at Walmart. Prior to Walmart, Mark served as Senior Corporate Counsel in Privacy Compliance at SHEIN in Los Angeles, California, Director of Risk, Compliance, & Privacy at Florida State University, and Associate of the Technology Risk Regulatory, Policy, & Strategy team in the Engineering Division at Goldman Sachs.
Mark obtained his Master of Business Administration in Information Technology Management from the University of Texas at Dallas, Juris Doctor from Cooley Law School, and Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Dr. Yu Liu
Yu (Leo) Liu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance. He earned his Ph.D. in Real Estate from Georgia State University. Dr. Liu's research focuses on financial data analysis and methodology, residential and commercial real estate, and business education. His research papers have been widely published in the top-tier finance, real estate, and educational journals, such as the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, the International Review of Financial Analysis, and International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.
