MSBA Faculty Members

Dr. Yuanjie He is a Professor and Chair of Technology and Operations Management Department in CBA Cal Poly Pomona. He received his Ph.D. in Operations from Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in 2005.

His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of supply chain management and business analytics with over twenty high quality publications on contemporary topics such as sharing economy, sustainability, and supply chain risk management, etc. He has been leading the College of Business Administration’s efforts in developing master-level programs, including the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) and the Master of Science in Digital Supply Chain Management (MSDSCM).

Dr. Drew Hwang is a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Information Systems department at Cal Poly Pomona and a visiting professor of the Global Business Graduate Program at the Soochow University, Taiwan. He received a Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems in 1995 from University of Mississippi.  Dr. Hwang has had more than ten years of industry experiences as a system analyst, project manager, and chief technology officer in the areas of e-commerce and business information systems.  He was the founder director for the Mitchell C. Hill Center for Applied Business Technology (MCHABIT) of the College of Business at Cal Poly Pomona in 2017 and the chief developer of eHongKong.com in 2001.

Dr. Carlos J. Navarrete is full professor at the Computer Information Systems Department at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona.) He holds a B. Sc. from Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, and a Ph. D. in Management Information Systems (2001) from Claremont Graduate University. Before joining Cal Poly Pomona in 2001, Professor Navarrete worked for Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, where he was Chair of the Information Systems Department. His research interest is the use of Information Technology to support individuals’, groups’, and organizations’ productivity. Professor Navarrete has published several journal and conference articles. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology for Development and RECALSI. He is the recipient of several awards through his academic carrier. He was a Fulbright scholar from 1991 to 1994.

Dr. Mohammad Salehan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems (CIS) and serves as the coordinator of Business Intelligence track of the CIS department. He received his Ph.D. in Business with concentration in Business Computer Information Systems from University of North Texas in 2015 and had 7 years of industry experience as software developer and IT consultant prior to joining Cal Poly Pomona.

Dr. Shuo Zeng is an Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations Management at the College of Business Administration. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Eller College of Management, University of Arizona in 2015. His teaching interests are business analytics, operations management, and information systems. His research interests include the application of game theory in operations management, sharing economy, and business analytics in e-commerce platforms.

Shih-Tang Hwu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He received M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Washington. His research areas are empirical macroeconomics, econometrics methods, and monetary policy. In particular, he studies the dynamics of macroeconomics variables, including GDP growth rate, inflation, and stock return. He proposes new econometrics method to analyze and forecast those macroeconomics variables. His research has been published in major refereed journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He has taught courses in econometrics, economics forecasting, and game theory.

Dr. Ma received his Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, M.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, and Ph.D. (concentration on information systems) from the University of Utah. He has taught classes in Java Programming, Web Application Development, Android Mobile Development, Systems Analysis & Design, and Databases. He has published in journals, such as ACM Transactions on Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. His main research interest is knowledge discovery and data mining.

Dr. Hui Shi is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Information Systems Department at Cal Poly Pomona. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Old Dominion University. Her teaching interests include Object Oriented Programming, Mobile Application Development, Databases, Algorithm design and Artificial Intelligence. Her research interests include Data Mining, Big Data, Social Media Analysis, Information Visualization, Semantic Web and Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Dr. Wadhwa is an Associate Professor of Management and Leadership in the College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona. She received her Ph.D. in Management with a focus on Organizational Behavior from the University of Kansas. Her research interests broadly lie in the areas of diversity and inclusion, business ethics, organizational change, strategic human resources management, and positive organizational scholarship with a focus on how employees experience work.

Is an assistant professor of Technology and Operations Management in the College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University in 2009. His teaching interests include business analytics, supply chain management, and applied statistics. His research interests lie in algorithm design, systems modeling and optimization, and application of learning algorithms in business and engineering fields. Dr. Wang has won the IBM faculty awards in 2012.

Alireza Yazdani is an Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management at the College of Business Administration, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Alireza’s research interests relate to retail operations, pricing models, and service operations. In particular, he studies firms’ product and pricing decisions in response to market characteristics including competition, heterogeneity, and strategic consumer behavior. Alireza has taught courses in both supply chain management and business analytics desciplines. Alireza earned his PhD in Operations and Business Analytics from University of Oregon in 2019. Prior to joining the PhD program, he earned both BSc (Industrial Engineering) and MBA degrees from Sharif University of Technology. He has worked in professional capacities in three different industries (auto-manufacturing, petroleum, and banking), with responsibilities ranging from marketing and strategic planning to systems analysis and organizational development. cal poly pomona 3801 West Temple Avenue, Pomona, CA 91768 ©2024 California State Polytechnic University, Pomona All Rights Reserved About Cal Poly Pomona Feedback Privacy Accessibility Document Readers california state university

Dr. Mehrdad Koohikamali is an Assistant Professor of the Computer Information Systems department at Cal Poly Pomona. He received a B.S. in Geomatics engineering from University of Tabriz, Iran, an M.S. in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from University of Tehran, an M.S. in Applied GIS and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from University of North Texas. His expertise includes location analytics and GIS, big data analytics, social media analytics, and information privacy. He teaches location analytics, data mining, social media and text mining, and big data technology at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Koohikamali is the Co-director of Singelyn Center for Innovative Analytics, where he led many projects for companies such as Boeing and Meta. He also has recently partnered with the local government and international organizations to build a digital twin center for the College of Business Administration. He has more than 10 years of work experience in various areas of GIS as consultant, coordinator, analyst, programmer, administrator, and manager. His research appeared in journals such as Decision Support Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, Informing Science, Information Technology and People, and Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.