The Costello College of Business continues its long-standing commitment to expanding impactful research through seven new named faculty positions.
These new positions, five made possible by the Corporate and Community Partners Program at Costello, recognize faculty members’ impact on their students, their high quality research, and engaging innovative approaches to experiential learning. The Corporate and Community Partner fellowships join two existing named positions that were awarded through generous support from individual donors.
“The introduction of these fellowships is a ringing testament to the overall quality of the teaching and scholarship practiced at Costello,” says Ajay Vinzé, dean of the Costello College of Business. “I congratulate and thank all of our faculty for the hard work, vision, and dedication that made these deeply gratifying awards possible.”
Costello’s Corporate and Community Partner Program provides an opportunity for strategic partnership, offering companies a high level of engagement, showcasing their commitment to business education including students, faculty, and the university community, supporting recruitment, internship opportunities, scholarships, and school activities. The faculty fellowships contribute to faculty research relevant to both teaching and industry, one of the college’s strategic priorities.
“The introduction of these fellowships is a ringing testament to the overall quality of the teaching and scholarship practiced at Costello. I congratulate and thank all of our faculty for the hard work, vision, and dedication that made these deeply gratifying awards possible.”
— Ajay Vinzé, dean of the Costello College of Business
Faculty Fellowships
These faculty are dedicated to teaching, research excellence, and committed to developing the workforce of the future.
Amit Dutta – Leroy Eakin, Sr. Endowed Chair in Business
Amitava Dutta is a professor and the area chair of information systems and operations management at Costello. His research interests include telecommunications and electronic commerce, systems thinking/business simulation, and decision support systems. Journals in which his research has appeared include Management Science, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, European Journal of Operational Research, and IIE Transactions.
Brad Greenwood – Costello Distinguished Professor
Brad N. Greenwood is a professor of information systems and operations management at Costello. His research examines the intended and unintended consequence of innovation, and how access to the resulting information affects welfare at the interface between business, technology, and social issues; notably in the contexts of health care and entrepreneurship. His work has been published in such leading outlets as: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, Productions and Operations Management, MIS Quarterly, the Communications of the ACM, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and PLoS ONE.
Bret Johnson – Kearney & Company Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow
Bret A. Johnson is an associate professor of accounting at Costello. His research interests focus on SEC reporting and regulation and financial accounting, disclosure, and regulation. His work has been published in The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting, and Management Science, among others.
Jiasun Li – Robert D. Johnston Associate Professor of Finance
Jiasun Li is an associate professor of finance at Costello. His research interests focus on business emerging technologies at the intersection of business, economics, and computer science, with a focus on blockchain technologies and FinTech applications. He has published in both finance and computer science, with four publications in the prestigious UT Dallas journal list, seven peer reviewed publications overall, and several chapters and proceedings. His work was recognized in 2025 via the Research Symposium on Finance and Economics Best Paper Award and the Exponential Science Pioneers Award.
Brian Ngac, BS’16, MS ’17, PhD ’24 – FWI Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow
Brian Ngac is an instructional assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Costello. His research interests include cyber security business and management, the cyber workforce, expert crowdsourcing, and experiential learning. Ngac also started the Professional Readiness Experiential Program (PREP) which places Honors and high-performing students in both the Costello College of Business and School of Computing with real companies performing hands-on experience in real impactful projects. Since joining Costello, Ngac has brought in over $780K in grants and awards to support his experiential learning program and research efforts.
Cindy Parker, BS ’92, MS ’94, PhD ’98 – Leidos Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow
Cindy Parker is an instructional professor of management at Costello. Her research interests include employee selection and retention, leadership assessment and development, and performance management. Parker has presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and American Psychological Association annual conferences and has published in The New Physician.
Mariia Petryk – Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow
Mariia Petryk is an assistant professor of information systems and operations management at Costello. Her research interests include emerging technology management, digital and mobile platforms, blockchain, and social networks. Her research has appeared in reputable academic journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and at premier IS conferences, including CIST, WITS, HICSS, POMS, and INFORMS.
Kevin Rockmann – CGI Corporate Partner Faculty Fellow
Rockmann is a professor of management at Costello. His research interests include interpersonal relationships, relational systems and leadership, remote and hybrid work, personal trauma and interpersonal effects, and identity/identification. His research involves studying working relationships in organizations, including how relationships are generated, maintained, and dissolve. He is particularly interested in how organizations cultivate relationships given the increasing use of remote and hybrid work. His research has been covered by Harvard Business Review, Time, The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and the Financial Times.
Min Shen – Phillip G. Buchanan Endowed Fellow
Min Shen is an associate professor of accounting at Costello. Her research examines corporate disclosures, capital markets, and information dissemination, with publications in leading journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. Her work has been cited in SEC regulatory rulings and has shaped conversations around the role of accounting in capital markets. Her recent research focuses on artificial intelligence and accounting.