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Virtual Commencement CelebrationJune 13, 2020

Congratulations to the Class of 2020!

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With life comes change, and with change

comes opportunity. On behalf of everyone at

The Paul Merage School of Business, I offer

my sincere congratulations to you – and to all

those family and friends who have supported

you – as you embark on the next phase of

opportunity in your life. Despite the challenging

times that we – and the world – have faced

together, this is still a day of celebration for the

Class of 2020, and we are all reminded how hard

you have worked and how you have grown to enable

yourself to take advantage of the opportunities ahead.

This year, the Merage School graduates more than 970 leaders in

business, including those from our Undergraduate business major; our Full-Time MBA, Fully

Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Health Care Executive MBA programs; our three Specialty

Masters programs in Professional Accountancy, Finance, and Business Analytics, plus our

inaugural class of Masters in Innovation & Entrepreneurship; and our Doctoral program. Each

of you has earned a degree that will continue to pay dividends for the rest of your life.

The Merage School is proud of our part in developing world-ready visionary leaders who

will inspire trust, think critically, drive innovation, and challenge the status quo. Our rigorous

academic programs are taught in a purposefully collaborative setting surrounded by leading

global executives from our vibrant and supportive Orange County business community and

beyond. We are committed to our vision to be at the forefront of education and research

among globally preeminent business schools.

In the constantly evolving environment of a digitally-driven world, our world-class research

faculty are developing and disseminating the knowledge necessary for business and not-

for-profit communities to anticipate and take advantage of emerging challenges. A critical

component of economic success is effective and timely business strategies designed to

sustain profitable business growth. The Merage School’s strategic plan builds on the strength

of the school to deliver educational excellence valuing diversity, collaboration, inclusivity and

respect.

Today, you join an elite group of alumni across the globe. I encourage you to return to your

alma mater often, whether to seek further enrichment, expand your network, or to give

back to current students seeking your mentorship and support. You have a responsibility

as a proud Merage School alum to serve as an ambassador for the School; I hope we have

earned your enthusiasm and willingness to do so.

Finally, we at The Paul Merage School of Business thank you for the enrichment you have

brought to the School, for the lessons you have taught us, and for the opportunity to share in

your success on this special day.

We are the better for it, and will always continue to strive to be the very best.

Message from the DeanEric R. Spangenberg, PhD

Dean, The Paul Merage School of Business

Awards for Excellence

FULL-TIME MBAJoseph W. McGuire Award

Highest Grade Point Average

Matthew Klinger

George W. Brown Award

Overall Academic Excellence and Exceptional Service to The Paul Merage School of Business

Anita Justina Tse

Paul and Lilly Merage Visionary Award

Eleanor Lee Hoekstra

Dean’s Scholar and Beta Gamma Sigma Award

Jovan Chandra Ardy

Dylan Manuel Barreira

Grant Foster

Kisoo Hong

Cheolmin Kim

James Kirby

Matthew Klinger

Jennifer Nam

David Ruff

Beta Gamma Sigma Award

Mackenzie Cater

Megan Elizabeth Hannan

Roland Friedemann Peter Polzin

Scott Francis Refugio

Anita Justina Tse

FULLY EMPLOYED MBAHighest Grade Point Average

Camielle Compton


Camielle Compton

Christopher Duran

Meng Fang

Paula Hervias

Samuel Hosseini

Tony Lu

Christine Ly

Madison Murphy

Timothy Neal

Justin Nguyen

Daniel Nystrom

Benjie Perez

Elizabeth Pianalto

Daniel Sepasi

Stephanie Smolka

Azadeh Vosoughian


Harrison Burka

Christina Catabay

Paul Cho

Diana Higby

Lana Komleva

Peter Kulmaticki

Tina McClelland

Christian Moseley

Kristen Nishikuni

Michelle Reed

Meng Wang

James Weinstock

Colbert Yoshimura

Declan Zhou

EXECUTIVE MBAHighest Grade Point Average

Michael Valentine


Byron Ferrise

Nick Iyer

Craig Smith

David Tropiano

Michael Valentine

Sridhar Vemuri


Barton Nielsen

Santhanam Rajagopalan

Noosheen Rajendran

An Tran

Sergio Pena Valle

MASTER OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANCY Highest Grade Point Average

Natalie Turpin


Alisha Blush

Yee Hyun Cho

Esam El-Sayed

Yang Hong

Vrinda Jagad

Wing Kwan Leung

Matthew Locklear

Khanh Luu

Robert Nelson

Tiffany Reber

Briana Shen

Kevin Stahl

Kevin Tran

Natalie Turpin

Ching-Yu Wang

Shao Li Xu

Yuqing Zhang


Siqi An

Tianlong Lian

Chang Liu

Shinhyoung Park

Siqi Yu

Lifan Zhou

Eva Wang

Xiaoqian Cai

Bingqing Chen

Alexandra Hawk

Xiaodi Sun

Yitong Ye

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ANALYTICSHighest Grade Point Average

Drew Boyd

Yuan Liu

Clinton Ng

Dimple Singhania


Drew Boyd

Alex Enriquez

Karen Fang

Matthew Littman

Yuan Liu

Vishnu Madan

Sonal Mendiratta

Clinton Ng

Saad Noman

Arpita Sharda

Dimple Singhania

Ai Ling Ting

Lisa Yuan


Tammy Chiu

Jacob Chung

Anuja Dixit

Mark Hu

Vivian Kang

Steven Li

Martha Lin

Linxia Liu

Shan Pillaiyan

Chavi Singal

Shaun Vetrovec

Stella Yang

Howard Zhu

MASTER OF INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Highest Grade Point Average

Maxim Maximov

Ravi Parashar


Gerald Adams

Jon Freeman

Maxim Maximov

Ravi Parashar

Alina Wu


Michelle Liman

Sally Mai

Alaina McClue

BACHELOR OF ARTSAndrew J. Policano Award

Presented to the graduate who best represents the ideals of the Merage School

as demonstrated by both academic performance and contributions to the Merage School community.

Priyanka Deepak Pabari

Chancellor’s Award of Distinction Presented in collaboration with the UC Irvine Alumni Association, these graduating seniors represent exceptional

academic achievement and a commitment to cutting-edge research, leadership and service to UC Irvine.

Danielle Dauglash Heredia

Ran Gu

Claudia Vu

Katie Xiong

Exceptional Service AwardPresented to the graduate who demonstrated an extraordinary amount of service to the Merage School and/or on

behalf of the Merage School community.

Katie Xiong

Phi Beta Kappa**

Annie Chen

Christopher Cordes

Rachel Dunkin


Lisa Hong

Renee Navarro

Micky Tuan Nguyen


Yasmeen Samimi

Melissa Santos Silva

Yinlu Tang

Timothy Toto

Bryan Vo

Claudia Vu

Nicole Anne Yonan

Xiuting Yu

Summa Cum Laude and Beta Gamma Sigma Award*

Annie Chen

Christopher Paul Cordes

Ran Gu

Jichen Li

Nicholas Tam

Lhanz Henrichson Tan Tan

Magna Cum Laude and Beta Gamma Sigma Award*

Yiqing Gao

Steven Minh Tan Lac

May Hien Lam

Jingyang Lin

Kristina Rana Macaluso

Renee Joelle Navarro

Ariana Nicole Otero


Yasmeen Samimi

Timothy William Toto

Xianyi Zhang

Chenlong Zhang

Cum Laude and Beta Gamma Sigma Award*

Anya Batmanian

Wei Chen

Carina Chou

Tiger Hong

Tan-Thien Le

Isaac Heewon Lee

Mai Le Tuong Luong

Lidya Manouilian

Eaindray Oo

Steven Mourad Terterian

Marian Ysobel Escobedo Tria

Cenyi Wang

Cum Laude Award*

Siming Chen

Haoyu Chen

Muhua Chen

Ivan Leo Chu

Cameron Javier De La Torre

Vivian M. Gip

Hayden Lyman Hosick

Aaron Kuo

Zhenghan Lin

Alexis Munoz

Micky Tuan Nguyen

Khanh Ngoc Kieu Nguyen

Jasmine Puentes

Niddhi Paresh Rambhia

Aaron Soetanto

Quyen Doan Tran

Sharon Wen

Yongwei Wu

Zhicheng Xiong

** Nominated

* Eligible for Honors at Graduation; will be awarded based on cumulative record at the end of the final quarter

Albert Ahn Activist Hedge Fund Board Representation and Its Impact

Chair: Margarethe Wiersema on Corporate Strategy

Ali Esmaeeli How Support Groups Can Benefit from Online Environments

Chairs: Robin Keller and

Connie Pechmann

Xiayo (Sylvia) Gao Evolution of Consumer Preference on Digital Platforms:

Chairs: Imran Currim and Implications on Search, Product and Pricing Strategies

Sanjeev Dewan

Haeyoung Koo The Behavioral Perspective of Hedge Fund Activism

Chair: Margarethe Wiersema

Shengjun Mao Search, Consumption, and Monetization in App Economy

Chair: Sanjeev Dewan Analytics

Hyewon Park Essays on the Effects of Social Identity on Market

Chair: Rajeev Tyagi Outcomes, Competition, and Reciprocity: Analytical and

Experimental Investigations

Anwida Prompijit Consumer Online Search Behavior: An Empirical Analysis

Chair: Vijay Gurbaxani

Punit Sharma The Impact of Cognitive Factors on Intra- and Inter-Firm

Chair: Margarethe Wiersema Innovation

Chenzhe Tian Applications of Machine Learning and Reinforcement

Chair: Zheng Sun Learning in Investment and Trading

Aruhn Venkat The Spillover Effects of Bank Taxes on Corporate Investment

Chair: Terry Shevlin

Mariella Zavala Disruptive Marketplaces: A Framework and Investigation of

Chairs: Tonya Bradford and the Role of Place in the Disruption of Social Norms

Alladi Venkatesh

Youqing Zhou The Value of Being First: Evidence from Mutual Fund Flows

Chair: Christopher Schwarz

Candidates for Doctor of Philosophy

Jovan Chandra Ardy

Dylan Manuel Barreira

Andrew Brown

Mackenzie Cater

Paige Christie

Nicolas Cook

Zsazsa Daniella

Denis Dariev

Gautam Deept

Samantha Elbaz

Cynthia Enriquez

Pranay Rama Rao Etoori

Grant Foster

Anthony Georgopoulos

Mariana Gomez

Megan Elizabeth Hannan

Oscar Hernandez Dominguez

Kisoo Hong

Andrew Hoverson

Matthew Hueber

Nathan Jasperse

Jin Hoon Jeong

Ameya Shripad Joshi

Christopher Karacic

Aleksandr Kim

Cheolmin Kim

James Kirby

Matthew Klinger

Brian Knight

Nam Serk Ko

Sriram Kumar

Jacob Lee

Eleanor Lee Hoekstra

Ivan Luiz Lopes De Almeida

Arneeb Ahmed Mahbub

Sanjay Mani

Jamie Merkler

Linh Linh Mikutowicz

Ujwal Mallikarjun Mishrikoti

Evangelina Molina

Hui Jun Moon

Jennifer Nam

Diana Hoang Nguyen

Loi Nguyen

Ikechukwu O. Nnadi

Brittany Ouyang

Seth Phelps

Roland Friedemann Peter Polzin

Scott Francis Refugio

Russell Rogers

Hang Ruan

David Ruff

Mohak Sahni

Gayatri Sambandamurthy Karthy

Fernando Serra De Souza

Shubham Sharma

Zoe Shiovitz

Bhawana Shukla

Suriti Singh

Parth Srivastav

Hana Su

Shivi Tandon

Juthawan Thongborisute

Tina Tsaur

Anita Justina Tse

Justice Turner

Amit Verma

Wenkai Wu

Xujing Yang

Kexuan Zhang

Candidates for Master of Business Administration

Full-Time MBA


Fully Employed MBA

Sheikh Aftab

Daniel Andrus

David Cesar Arroba

Kevin Barajas

Alyssa Barberio

Raymond Beck

Kristen Marie Berube

Shivangi Bhatnagar

Akshay R Bhavsar

Harsimranjit Bohgunh

Harrison Burka

Mario Bustos

Guillermo I Camps

Connie Cao

Diana Catalina Carrera

Christina Javier Catabay

Yifu Chen

Kiren Kaur Chima

Paul Cho

Camielle Compton

Zach Correa

Danielle Couture

Scott Coy

Kristen Marie Del Dosso

Dorin Dorin

Christopher Duran

Katherine Herron

Diego El Jechin

Meng Fang

David Gantz

Charissa J. Halim

Jake Hall

Paula Hervias

Diana Higby

Catherine Huang

Mitch Hughes

Joseph Hwang

Chathuri Kahaduwa

Gabriel George Kassaseya

Hanah Khaled

April Kim

Lana Komleva

Peter Kulmaticki

Selva Kumar

Jonathan Z Kwong

Vy Ngoc Khanh Le

Cory Leach

Nicole Lee

Raymond Leung

Ruoqi Liao

Annie Liu Yi

Xiaobin Lu

Tony Lu

Elizabeth Luce

Alexander Lucht

Stephanie Luo

Kenny Luong

Christine Ly

Ruben Maltos

Max Mao

Shawn Masoumi Alagha

Tina McClelland

Duncan McClure

Sean McCrann

Michael Miller

Marcus Minami

Alexander Miskinyar

Michael Molina

Carolina Montenegro

Carlos Mauricio Monterrosa

Behtash Moojedi

Rachel Moore

Cara Lynne Morin

David G. Morones

Dhyana Morris

Christian Moseley

Madison Murphy

Timothy nNeal

Thomas Neis

Reza K. Nezhad

Elizabeth Nguyen

Justin Nguyen

Lindsay Nguyen

Kristen Nishikuni

Huynh Nong

Daniel Nystrom

Anthony O’Rourke

Eddie Pak

Jeong Gyun Park

Justin Pasion

Vishal Patel

Dane Pavlik

Benjie Perez

Rajeev Peterson

Joseph Pham

Elizabeth Pianalto

Khaled Qolaghasi

Michelle K Reed

Fabian Romay

Yasaman Sadri

Alfredo Sandoval

Daniel Sepasi

Guaurav Singh

Stephanie Smolka

Eryn Sobing

Ameek Sodhi

Anthony Sogg

Chhannya Som

Gregory Steele

Stuart Stivers

Selina Su

Rong Sun

Julie Tan

Daniel Tantono

Asbed Tchoboian

Lotus Thai

Crystal Thomas

Mohan K Thota

Kristen Gabrielle Toledo

Michael Tralli

Spencer Gregory Pettaway Tyson

Emily Uy

Jeff Vos

Azadeh Vosoughian

Meng Wang

Wei Chih Wang

James Weinstock

Yan Wen

Theresa Karen Wong

Jin Xie

Tatsuya Todd Yamada

Colby Yoshimura

Dennis Raychun Young

Mahan Zabeti

Declan Zhou


Executive MBA

Ahmed Badr

Tanuja Bhandari

Kasandra Bowden

Carlos Castellanos

Erik Delgadillo

Angela Devlin

Matthew Dwight

Christopher Fandrey

Byron Ferrise

Gabrielle Fischer

Rosario Garza

Michael Gleason

Heriberto Guillen

Tianna Henderson

Christina Hernandez

Patrick Hu

Neeraj Iyer

Anil Jaiswal

Bradley Jones

Eunjoo Kim

Deepak Lakhiani

Travis Latendresse

Lawrence Lee

Morris Lifschutz

Dave Liu

Hossien Mashintchian

Daniel Merriman

Richard Nielsen

Sergio Pena Valle

Patrick Pitre

Neil Polzin

Reynaldo Quinones

Santhanam Rajagopalan

Noosheen Rajendran

Diana Ramos

Dean Schaefer

Kelley Shanabarger

Peter Shin

Yadab Sitaula

Brendon Smith

Craig Smith

Khaled Tawfik

Jains Thoppil Francis

Karl Tokita

An Tran

David Tropiano

Chidi Umeh

Michael Valentine

Sridhar Vemuri

Sunil Verma

Jonathan Vogel

Shahab Zahed

Siqi An

Jorge Andrade

Mahdi Bagherzadeh

Ziwei Bai

Fiona Beach

Alisha Blush

Xiaoqian Cai

Ernesto Carrillo

Wen-Kai Chang

Bingqing Chen

Haoxian Chen

Tzu-Yu Chen

Yongyin Chen

Zihao Chen

Chen Cheng

Christopher Cheng

Yee Hyun Cho

Erika Choy

Xiang Cui

Xue Cui

Jason Dayoub

Imane Dibiche

Kathia Elenes

Noiella Eliehmoshabad

Esam El-Sayed

Daniel Fernandez

Rongmei Gao

Anna Gevorkyan

Penglin Guo

Rui Guo

Yuwei Han

Alexandra Hawk

Preston Hiefield

Dung Hoang

Yang Hong

Lanxu Hou

Vy Hua

Vrinda Jagad

Lin Jia

Zhen Jia

Xinyu Jiang

Katherine Jiang

Jooho Jo

Malika Khamrayeva

Kern Khurana

Wei Lao

Eileen Lee

Wing Kwan Leung

Xianjie Li

Xiujun Li

Titi Li

Yuwei Li

Tianlong Lian

Shuang Lin

Aaric Lin

Chang Liu

Eileen Liu

Matthew Locklear

Jose Long

Jennifer Lopez

Yingying Luan

Ting Luo

Khanh Luu

Ayaz Malik

Jiayu Mao

Andy Matsumoto

Brianna Middleton

Eunji Min

Yim Ting Mok

Robert Nelson

Stephanie Nguyen

Lauren O’Sullivan

Shinhyoung Park

Omar Ramil

Tiffany Reber

Xinyi Ren

Adrianna Robles

Binant Sareen

Briana Shen

Jiayi Shen

Wei Shi

Yahuan Shu

Yilin Shu

Diane Sim

Kevin Stahl

Peng Li Su

Shidi Sun

Xiaodi Sun

Wanmeng Sun

Tian Tang

Marissa Thein

Jiahui Tian

Nasreen Torki

Alice Tran

Kevin Tran

Ngoc Bao Tran

Natalie Turpin

Ching-Yu Wang

Eva Wang

Yi Wang

Xinyue Wang

Meitong Wang

Kejing Wang

Lisihan Wang

Yan Wang

Kira Weaver

Shuning Wei

Emily Wei

Jingxian Weng

Limin Wu

Yue Wu

Zihui Wu

Zilin Xia

Zhuqing Xiao

Xiaolong Xiao

Yan Xie

Shenghua Xie

Shao Li Xu

Wenyu Xu

Lei Xu

Evelyn Yao

Yitong Ye

Siqi Yu

Elliot Zatzkis

Yuqing Zhang

Xi Zhang

Jie Zhang

Hanxing Zhang

Zhongling Zhao

Jinyao Zhao

Yuxi Zheng

Shiyun Zhong

Lifan Zhou

Xiaoying Zhou

Xuanlei Zhu

Candidates for Master of Professional Accountancy

Candidates for Master of Finance

Radhika Agarwal

Abdulatif Alzoman

Aadrika Arora

Anbei Bao

Grzegorz Borecki

Xiaohui Cai

Eileen Chen

Leizhu Chen

Qige Chen

Yingying Chen

Yingzhu Chen

Danushi De Silva

Arya Farazdaghi

Xiyuan Gao

Mayuri Garg

Daniel Granados

Marc Grayeb

Xueying Guo

Osvaldo Horta

Audrey Iskandar

Mingye Kuang

Stephen Kusuma

Emily Lee

Alejandro Leyva

Huajian Li

Kun Li

Shuaitian Li

Shuting Li

Xinzhe Li

Yi Li

Jie Liu

Ryan Long

Antonio Lopez

Brahim Malki

Gaia Meda

Wen Meng

Luke Meyer

Anthony Ortega

Fernando Pantaleon-Acevedo

Jimmy Perez-Maldonado

Daniel Phillips

Alex Resendiz

Oscar Romo Ibarra

Michael Salazar

Pokboon Sawangpak

Min Shen

Avanti Shinde

Jiarui Song

Jing Sun

Xinyun Tang

Fernaldy Tanoko

Anh Tram Trieu

Siyu Wang

Zaihan Wang

Zhongchun Wang

Zilin Wang

Ruichi Wen

Bin Xu

Jiahui Yu

Erika Zamora

Xiaowei Zhai

Hanxiao Zhang

Siyu Zhang

Zehao Zhang

Jiuxiang Zhang

Yiyang Zhou

Konnor Zickefoose

Jiaxin Zuo

Luis Acevedo

Manodhar Allu

Jesslyn Antonio

Mohammad Arsalan

Rishab Ballekere Narayana

Gowda

Rijul Banerjee

Andrew Boyd

Tanvir Brar

Wenqi Cao

Jahnavi Chavali

Shiyao Chen

Kuan-Chen Chiu

Teng-Yun Chung

Weilun Dai

Bao Anh Dam

Henry Dang

Anuja Dixit

Alexander Enriquez

Yang Fang

Rong Fang

Yikai Fang

Erqiang Guo

Ruiqing He

Chenhui Hu

Yuzhou Hu

Minji Jeon

Zhiheng Jing

Shannon Jusman

Venkata Aneesh Kalaga

Vivian Kang

Connor Ketel

Joo-Hyun Kim

Vedant Kshirsagar

Sneha Lakshmikanthaiah

Basil Latif

Yeji Lee

Hsu Ming Lee

Yuan Jye Lee

Byungchan Lee

Zixin Li

Luyao Li

Kuang Li

Jui-Chi Liang

Hsiu-I Lin

Qiwei Lin

Matthew Littman

Linxia Liu

Xiao Tong Liu

Yaoxuan Liu

Yeran Liu

Yuan Liu

Yan Ting Matthew Lock

Liqin Lu

Weili Luo

Ryan Luu

Vishnu Madan

Ryan Maffioli

Sonal Mendiratta

Isaac Mizrahi

Geoffrey Nel

Clinton Ng

Saad Noman

Yisang Pan

Shanmuga Pillaiyan

Kevin Pla

Manoj Pyla

Zelong Qian

Quan Qiao

Ramya Raghavan

Belal Rais

Sameer Rathi

Billy Saputra

James Sarmento

Kathleen Sebastian

Kevin Seng

Supriya Shahane

Wen Shan

Arpita Sharda

Sushrut Shendre

Minmin Shi

Chavi Singal

Tatiksha Singh

Dimple Singhania

Jennifer Siwu

Takako Suzuki

Shujiang Tan

Yufei Tan

Ai-Ling Ting

Adwait Toro

Adam Toy

Tristan Tran

Shaun Vetrovec

Yongyuan Wan

Jiahui Wang

Junxiu Wang

Yuxi Wang

Sijia Wang

Mike Adhitya Williams

Shengze Xiao

Mengze Xu

Shuochen Xu

Min Young Yang

Zhuoer Yang

Jiaqi Yao

Yu An Yeh

Dora Yuan

Tianjiao Yuan

Qingyao Zhang

Chuyan Zhang

Yu Zhang

Huhao Zhu

Candidates for Master of Science in Business Analytics

Gerald Adams

Temitayo Adanlawo

Evgeny Bagaryakov

Zarina Bahadur

Vincent Wu Wei Can

DeRonte Craig

Khang Do

Gabriella Escobar

Andre Fawaz

Jonathan Freeman

Joshua Garcia

Arjean Hayes

Pei Fan Hung

Cassidy Kallenborn

Dong Wook Kim

Chia-Jung Li

Michelle Liman

Xiaolou Liu

Yixin Luan

Yangu Lyu

Haixiang Ma

Miriam Madava

Chuying Mai

Borna Malekshahi

Maxim Maximov

Alaina McClue

Eric Parashar

Dhruv Patel

Marion Angelo Quijano

Zixuan Ruan

Yassemeen Sa’Dullah

Lauren Saiki

Calvin Suryadinata

Junjie Tao

Alan To

Christine Truong

Norma Valles

Haixia Wu

Zihan Xiao

Helen Yu

Jiahe Zhang

Candidates for Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Tyanna Clarissa Adjie

Samaa Mazen Al-Moukdad

Jaiden Krystine Alba

Mozzamil Rashad Ali

Miguel Angel Alvarez-Franco

Alen Ashikian

Ananth Ashok

Jessica June Baca

Vanessa Elisa Banh

Yehan Bao

Anya Batmanian

Jingxian Bi

Lacey Renee Bratten

Brandon Neal Brunckhorst

Wendy Cai

Summer Rae Cain

Chen Cao

Nhan Hoai Cao

Kimberly Breann Castillo

Eric Chan

Kristen H. Chan

Lokpui Robert Chan

Man Ho Chan

Harry Singh Chandi

Annie Chen

Ashley S. Chen

Chi-Yang Chen

Haoyu Chen

Jingting Chen

Michael Minghao Chen

Muhua Chen

Siming Chen

Wei Chen

Xiang Chen

Yingxi Chen

Alex San Cheung

Linda Jen Hung Chin

May Chiu

Samantha Michele Cho

Steven Joon Choi

Carina Chou

Teal Siemlee Chou

Anika Choudhury

Ivan Leo Chu

Martin Tatsunori Chu-Tachikawa

Vincent Yi Shin Chuang

Vivian Hiu-Ting Chung

Maxwell Gino Clark

Hannah Bee Cooper

Christopher Paul Cordes

Cameron Javier De La Torre

Michelle Deng

John Ryan Fernando Tran Desnoyers

Kimberly Phuong Ngan Do

Yvon Le Doan

Cammy Du

Kyla Du

Paige Lillian Dumaguin

Rachel Ann Dunkin

Mirna Elaasar

Ivet Guadalupe Estevez

Sasha Ettekal

Qiaoyi Feng

Tanya Ferrero

Cody Antonio Fujimoto

Anthony Gallardo

Ariel Omar Gamez

Yiqing Gao

Luis Enrique Garcia

Steven Michael Garrett

Vahan Mathew Gekchyan

Aryan Nick Ghanadan

Chelsea Misa Gintz

Vivian M. Gip

Reyes Jose Gomez

Nicholas Anthony Gonzales

Rosa Ivette Gonzalez

Kimberly Rose Grant

Stephen M. Greunke

Ran Gu

Ouni Guan

Shuling Guo

Jasmine Gutierrez

Sara Hamza

Kenneth Han

Yanjie Hao

Hope Madonna Hart


Jose Alonso Herrera-Gonzalez

Jaycob Evan Hinojosa

Tomohide Douglas Hishinuma

Emily Noel Ho

Richard Minh Hoang

Lisa Hong

Hayden Lyman Hosick

Jui Chen Hsia

Peggy Hsieh

Ya De Htun

Ruiqian Hu

Angel Chu Qian Huang

Jiaxin Huang

Jocelyn Huang

Zishan Huang

Lia Jenna Ikeda

Hyun Chun Jang

Jimin Jeong

Candidates for Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

Nathan Corey Johnson

Ga Young Jun

Jonathan Kang

Vicken Hrag Kejejian

Abdolhamid Khatibzadeh

Christina Haelin Kim

Pilsung Kim

Marisa Kiyomi King

Chaitanya Sanjay Kore

Sabrina Kouchar

Aaron Kuo

Andrew Sean Kusnohadi

Gina Kwon

Kaung Wai Yan Kyaw

Steven Minh Tan Lac

Yanhao Lai

May Hien Lam

Melody Kieu-Diem Lam

Stephanie Nicole Lambrinidis

Allison M. Lau

Rachel Valerie Lau

Brandon Christopher Le

Ngoc Thi My Le

Tan-Thien Le

Irene Hye Jin Lee

Isaac Heewon Lee

Jessica Hiuan-Yeu Lee

Kathryn Wan Lin Lee

Sarah Sung Hey Lee

Michael Lee

David Sui-Tim Leong

Jennifer Sharon Lew

Guoquan Li

Hong Chao Li

Jichen Li

Qi Li

Vivian Wei Li

Peifen Li

Anan Liang

Bo-Cheng Liao

Jingyang Lin

Zhenghan Lin

Abigail Lira

Jiajun Liu

Qimei Liu

Yuyu Liu

Jiaxue Lu

Jeffrey Yin Lu

Xinghuan Lu

Angel David Luevanos

My Huong Luong

Nicole Catherine Luszczak

Yi Lyu

Yuqing Ma

Kristina Rana Macaluso

Gabriel Geoff Vicencio Mallari

Julianne Audrey Maninang

Lidya Manouilian

Julio Martinez

Jasmin Martinez Sanchez

Daniela Mayoral

Fatima Aziz Mian

Megan Oshiro Milne

Diana Lucia Monterroso

Edgar Felix Morales

Samantha Morales Lopez

Muneeb Moulvi

Aileen Carolina Munoz

Alexis Munoz

Kylie Kei Nakada

Renee Joelle Navarro

Melanie Jan Ng

Ivy Tuong Ngo

Jennifer Vo Ngo

Brian Thai Nguyen

Chau Thi Ngoc Nguyen

Duy Thanh Nguyen

Emily Tramanh Nguyen

Ethan Allen Nguyen

Khanh Ngoc Kieu Nguyen

Micky Tuan Nguyen

Vy Nguyen

Minh-Thu Monique Nguyen-Diep

Gina Ni

Kelly Ni

Amber Simone Nicholson

Sean Felix O’Donnell

Eaindray Oo

Christopher Matthew Orduna

Ruby Osorio

Ariana Nicole Otero


Sahiljoven Palane

Joel Pantoja-Ortega

Hyewon Park

Sun Min Park

Ernest Kyle Abrenica Pastor

Edgardo Villar Paulino Jr.

Jack David Pearce

William Giovanni Perez Jr.

Estrella Perez Hilario

Vanessa Nicole Perrin

Kyle Masaji Petersen

Stacie Pham

Vinh Phuc Phan

Ching Yin Poon

Jasmine Puentes

Qinfan Qian

Pramodi S. Rajapakse

Niddhi Paresh Rambhia

Hannah Nicole Linsangan Ramos

Khalia Roshan Rehemtulla

Robert Steven Reyes Jr.

Christian Luis Rios

Maximillian Josef Rivas

Alexis Kim Rivera

Gabriela Rodriguez Martinez

Sandra Ruiz Rodriguez

Maria Sahakyan Jr.

Yasmeen Samimi

Aira Camille Parojinog Samontina

Devina Natalie Shan

Payvand Shariatpanahi

Feifei Shen

Nicholas Andrew Shepherd

Melissa Santos Silva

Alessandra Elena Silva

Gursehaj Singh

Evgeny Smirnov

Aaron Soetanto

Edgardo Soto

Scott Eugene Stadick

Lucas Adam Swaney

Haruyuki Tachibana

Michelle Tam

Nicholas Tam

Lhanz Henrichson Tan Tan

Olivia S. Tang

Kenny Tang

Yinlu Tang

Ziwei Tang

Sevag Avo Tchorbajian

Steven Mourad Terterian

Ankit Tondon

Timothy William Toto

Nhat Tran

Thanh Van Kelly Thi Tran

Tiffany Tran

Marian Ysobel Escobedo Tria

Julie Le Trinh

Jacob Scott Troge

Stanley Wen Tseng

Wei-Yun Tseng

Keani Taylor Turangan

Franz Gillian Terrobias Valerio

Karen Raquel Valles

Trevor Joseph Van Beurden

Amanda Marie Villalpando

Bryan Thien Vo

Claudia T. Vu

Cenyi Wang

Sharon Wen

Ziling Weng

Jasen Oliver Williams II

Kendall Chrystene Wilson

Trevor Bradley Wise

Alec Martin Wong

Chak Ting Wong

Jacklyn T. Wong

Jason Le Wong

Jillian Gumleng Wong

Lianne Vivian Wong

Tiffany Elizabeth Woo

Dominic Anthony Wright

Angel Wu

Hannah Wu

Jiaqi Wu

Wenxi Wu

Yongwei Wu

Terri X. Xin

Yingxin Xiong

Zhicheng Xiong

Deborah Hou-Ling Yeung

Zhaoli Yin

Aydin Attila Yolar

Nicole Anne Yonan

Salmaan Ahmad Yosafi

Emily Mai Therese Young

Jeremy Andrew Yu

Xiuting Yu

Kody Ko Yueh

Leonel Zaragoza

Aiqi Zhang

Chenlong Zhang

Kitling Zhang

Qifan Zhang

Xiangguang Zhang

Xianyi Zhang

Xuan Zhang

Wesley Alexander Zhang

Zhongyi Zhang

Ting Zhao

Jiazhi Zheng

Jianing Zhou

Miaoyan Zhou

Xian Zhou

ACCOUNTINGElizabeth Chuk

Joanna Ho

Chuchu Liang

Ben Lourie

Radhika Lunawat

Mort Pincus

Devin Shanthikumar

Terry Shevlin

Siew Hong Teoh

Patricia Wellmeyer

Chenqi Zhu

ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY

Edward Coulson

FINANCEDavid Hirshleifer

Chong Huang

Philippe Jorion

Christopher Schwarz

Jinfei Sheng

Zheng Sun

Yuhai Xuan

David Yang

Lu Zheng

INFORMATION SYSTEMSVibhanshu Abhishek

Behnaz Bojd

Vidyanand (VC) Choudhary

Sanjeev Dewan

Vijay Gurbaxani

Tingting Nian

Mingdi Xin

MARKETINGKevin Bradford

Tonya Bradford

Imran Currim

Mary Gilly

John Graham

Loraine Lau-Gesk

Connie Pechmann

Eric Spangenberg

Rajeev Tyagi

Alladi Venkatesh

OPERATIONS AND DECISION TECHNOLOGIES

Luyi Gui

Robin Keller

Ken Murphy

Carlton Scott

Rick So

John Turner

Shuya Yin

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENTChristopher Bauman

Martha Feldman

Sharon Koppman

Ming Leung

Melissa Mazmanian

Gerardo Okhuysen

Jone Pearce

Maritza Salazar Campo

Maia Young

STRATEGYPhilip Bromiley

John Joseph

Luke Rhee

Libby Weber

Margarethe Wiersema

2019-2020 Merage School Faculty

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Mohamed A. Abdelhamid

Neerja Aggarwal

Shawn Andrews

Feroz Ansari

Matt Bailey

Christopher J. Barry

Romilla Batra

Gerard Beenen

Richard Chandler

Max Chao

Kim Chatani

Ming Chen

Stephen Cooke

Kirsten Daniel

Cristina del Campo

Zvi Drezner

Thomas Eppel

Mauricio Featherman

Julie Flaiz-Windham

Nathan Franke

Ed Fuller

David Gamboa

Timothy M. Geiman

Joseph Donny Giles

Yuhong He

William Hernandez

John Herold

Alan Nelson

Lingwen Huang

Xuan Huang

Edward Hughes

Eric Jaegers

Lian Jian

Yanbo Jin

Venkat Jonnala

Soheila Jorjani

Michael Juergens

Ravi Kathuria

Jeff Kim

Sean Klein

Maria Kniazeva

Mark Krueger

Chet Lakhani

Leonard Lane

Brandon Law

Ben Leffel

Debbie Letourneau

Melisa Beatrice Levitt

Kevin McKenzie

Grace McLaughlin

Sharad Mehrotra

Stephen Milner

Howard D. Mirowitz

William Morris

Sanjoy Moulik

Richard Needham

Alan Nelson

Russel Nelson

Sue Padernacht

Fredrick Park

Michael Pettiette

Shaun Pichler

Emile Pilafidis

Raymond Pirouz

Michael Ponton

Steven Postrel

Hamid Pourmohammadi

Nils Randrup

Patrick Reilly

Todd Richey

Neil Sahota

Arvind Sathi

David Savlowitz

Vicki Mara Scherwin

Glen Schrank

Richard Selby

Christobel E. Selecky

Ramesh Shankar

Shantanu Sharma

Valerie Sheppard

Thomas Sherlock

Arjan Singh

Ahmad Sohrabian

Steven Sommer

Thomas Steinberger

Xuemei Su

Richard Sudek

Maria Van Der Steen

John Van-Horn

Thomas Wagner

Shanetta Weatherspoon

Craig Weaver

Aaron Werth

Lawrence Alan Wilk

Eric Wrobel

Brian Yacker

Program Offices

DOCTORATE PROGRAMTerry Shevlin, Associate Dean

Noel Negrete

FULL-TIME MBAJoanna Ho, Associate Dean

Jon Kaplan, Assistant Dean

Taylor Martini, Executive Director

Asani Myers

Sofia Dang

Eric Duarte

Lindsay Haberman

Jamee Barrios

EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAMJoanna Ho, Associate Dean


Sylvia Haas, Executive Director

Kristin Dalton

Robin Redding

Jennifer Risner

Stephanie Leonard

Amber Tadokoro

Ela Kozlowski

FULLY EMPLOYED MBA PROGRAMJoanna Ho, Associate Dean


Jon Masciana, Executive Director

Melanie Coburn

Nhung Nguyen

Kristin Dalton

Chris Helvajian

Stephanie Leonard

Amber Tadokoro

Jason Tompkins

SPECIALTY MASTERS PROGRAMSJoanna Ho, Associate Dean

Chris Bauman, Academic Director, MIE

Patricia Wellmeyer, Academic Director, Accounting

Zheng Sun, Academic Director, Finance


Kristen Ahn

Danielle Aceves-Dalal

Rick Callender

Jana Cheng

Oscar Guzman

Chloe Keller

Bryan Munoz

Ashley Ramirez

Jacqueline Rodio

Nadine Abu-Seraj

Burt Alvaro Slusher

Vanessa Tafreshi

Lina Tran

Michelle Steinman

Natalia Sanchez

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Maia Young, Associate Dean

Courtney Elmes, Senior Director

Michael Cruz

Sarah Link

Andrea O’Donnell

Nicolo Patungan

EXTERNAL RELATIONSDavid Knuff, Assistant Dean

Nick Shaffer

ADVANCEMENTTory Benoit, Executive Director

Ivette Barcenas

Sandy Lee

Eunice Lee

Matthew O’Connor

Ariel Shrader

Leah Walton

EXECUTIVE EDUCATIONDavid Knuff, Assistant Dean

Mollee Elniski

Johnny Cisneros

Amanda Pham

Tatiana Walton

CAREER CENTERCynthia Rude, Executive Director

Vickie Chicaul

Gina Cho

Ann Cross

Brittany Deneau

Blair Fraser

Qilin He

Joina Hsaio

Chris Kovitz

Jingjing Long

Barbra Marangell

Vanessa Marcin

Leaat Modiano

Lisa Patel

Darcy Cramer

Nan Stothard

Tonie Zhu

Sarah Yoo

FINANCIAL AIDAlda Ruggiero, Director

Kristin Roteliuk

BEALL CENTER FOR INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Imran Currim, Academic Director

Breanna Hale

CENTER FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Vijay Gurbaxani, Academic Director

Leslie Fell

CENTER FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIPEric Spangenberg, Academic Director and Dean

CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

Diane Ford

CENTER FOR INVESTMENT AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Christopher Schwarz, Academic Director

Lee Anne Maki

CENTER FOR REAL ESTATEEdward Coulson, Academic Director

Sharon Nakamura-Brown

Sanjeev Dewan, Academic Director, Business Analytics

History of CommencementThe colorful traditions surrounding academic regalia – gowns, caps, hoods, tassels, and cords –

date back to the first European universities. What began in the Middle Ages as clothing worn by

clerics to provide warmth in damp, unheated buildings progressed, by the time of Henry VIII of

England, to detailed codes of dress prescribed by Oxford University and Cambridge University.

In the late 1900s, universities in the U.S. began to assign specific colors to signify the different

academic disciplines, and those colors now appear in the trim of graduates’ gowns, the edging of

hoods, and sometimes on the tassels of caps. The color white for example, which at Oxford and

Cambridge is the white fur trim of baccalaureate hoods, in America was assigned to arts, letters

and humanities graduates.

GOWNSBaccalaureate gowns, usually black, have wide pointed sleeves and are worn closed. Master’s

gowns have oblong slit sleeves that open at the wrist and are worn open or closed. Doctoral gowns

have bell-shaped sleeves and are worn closed. Holders of the Doctoral degree may wear a velvet

facing on the front of the gown and three velvet bars across the sleeve. The velvet may be black or

it may be the color appropriate to the subject in which the wearer holds the degree.

HOODS AND TASSELSHoods are ornamental folds draped down the back of the shoulders of academic gowns worn by

Master’s or Doctoral degree graduates. Master’s degree candidates wear hoods lined with colors

that reflect their course of study, such as Business Administration. Doctoral degree hoods have a

silk lining with the colors of the institution from which the wearer has graduated. Graduates from

the University of California system wear hoods lined with blue and gold, the university’s official

colors, as well as colored velvet bands.

The color of the velvet band on the Master’s and Doctoral hood indicates the title of the degree;

the band on Master of Business Administration hoods is acetone gold/royal blue. A doctorate

recipient, regardless of the field of study, wears dark blue because the title of the degree is Doctor

of Philosophy.

At the University of California, Irvine, all graduates wear a duo-color tassel made up of the

University’s colors, blue and gold. The year is stamped on the reverse side of the University of

California, Irvine, official seal. Undergraduates receiving a degree have their tassel start on the right

side and then it is moved to the left. Graduate level degree recipients start the tassel on the left side

and it is not moved.

HONORS AND CORDSUC Irvine baccalaureate graduates, who have received campus-wide Latin honors (summa cum

laude, magna cum laude, cum laude), wear gold cords. The Chancellor’s Award of Distinction

recipients wear the blue and gold shoulder cord. Those who have received academic unit awards

and prizes, or who have been elected to honor societies, wear blue cords.

Graduate candidates receiving the Dean’s Scholar award wear two gold cords and those receiving

the Beta Gamma Sigma award wear a blue and gold cord. Silver cords are for shareholders of the

Dean’s Leadership Circle.

MACEFrom its origins in the Middle Ages, the club shaped staff known as a mace has gradually taken on

ceremonial character as a symbol of authority. In an American tradition begun in 1789 by the first

Speaker of the House, the U.S. House of Representatives’ mace is one of the oldest symbols of

our nation’s government, and is used both to open all sessions of the House and in the inaugural

ceremonies for all Presidents of the United States.

The UCI Alumni Association, with the assistance of Associate Vice Chancellor Student Affairs

Emeritus Chuck Pieper and Scenic Shop Supervisor Keith Bangs of the Claire Trevor School of the

Arts, presented the UC Irvine Mace to the campus on May 12, 2000. While the silver orb at the top

of the staff might be the first thing to catch the eye, the staff itself is memorable and unique. Carved

from California oak, it is fashioned to resemble the nose of an anteater, the school mascot. The

UC Irvine Mace was first carried at the 2000 Commencement ceremonies by the president of the

UCI Alumni Association, Deborah Daniel. The Mace is always carried by a distinguished UC Irvine

alumnus or alumna and leads the Commencement processional.

About the School The Paul Merage School of Business develops and equips leaders with critical business and

leadership skills needed to succeed through programs that are continually adapted to address the

ever-changing social, technological and economic opportunities and challenges in our digitally

driven world. We offer three dynamic MBA programs (including a hybrid online cohort), two dual

degrees (JD/MBA and MD/MBA), a Master of Professional Accountancy, Master of Finance, Master

of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MS in Business Analytics, MS in Biotechnology Management,

MS in Engineering Management, PhD and undergraduate business degrees that focus on creative

and critical thinking skills, strategic decision-making, leadership, innovation, and collaboration

through in-class and on-site experiences with real-world business problems. While the Merage

School is relatively young, it has quickly grown to consistently rank among the top 5% of all

AACSB-accredited programs through exceptional student recruitment, world-class faculty, a

strong alumni network and close relationships with both individual business executives and global

corporations. We combine the academic strengths and best traditions of the University of California

with the cutting-edge, entrepreneurial spirit of Orange County in the heart of Southern California’s

Tech Coast.

Together with our alumni and business community, we are proud to launch the next generation of

professionals poised to have a positive impact in business and society as a whole.

merage.uci.edu

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