Anton Ivanov is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics Scholar (2024-2025) at the Department of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business. He received his PhD in Management Science and Systems from the School of Management at the University at Buffalo. His research stands at the intersection of information systems, healthcare informatics, and social media with a focus on data analytics. His area of methodological expertise includes empirical analysis, econometrics, machine-learning, and mixed-methods involving qualitative analysis. Ivanov has participated in the development of the business analytics curriculum for a private institution in Columbus, OH.

Assistant Professor

Anton Ivanov

Aram Bahrini is a Teaching Assistant Professor at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He earned his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia before joining Gies. Dr. Bahrini's research focuses on Operations Management and Data Analytics, with particular applications in water resource management, healthcare systems, and supply chain management.

Teaching Assistant Professor

Aram Bahrini

David Molitor is an Associate Professor and Hewitt Faculty Fellow in the Department of Finance at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is Director of Gies Health Initiatives at Gies College of Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Molitor’s research explores how location and the environment shape health and health care delivery in the United States. He is a Principal Investigator of the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study, a large-scale field experiment of workplace wellness conducted at the University of Illinois. Molitor was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

Associate Professor

David Molitor

Julian Reif is an Associate Professor of Finance and Economics at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, J‐PAL North America, the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. He is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on the determinants and value of health. He has studied the health and medical spending effects of air pollution, the health and drug utilization effects of Medicare Part D, and the value of medical innovation. He is also a Principal Investigator of the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study. He currently serves as co-editor at The American Journal of Health Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and his BA from Vanderbilt University. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked as a Senior Consultant at Bates White.

Associate Professor

Julian Reif

Matias Carrasco Kind is the Director of the Data Science Research Services (DSRS) within the Gies College of Business. He is also a Research Assistant Professor in both the Accountancy and Astronomy departments, as well as at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), all at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He has extended his expertise to Earth sciences, bio-imaging, veterinary medicine, agricultural economics, and finance research. He is also one of the first Trusted CI Fellows at the Trusted CI NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. He holds a Faculty-in-residence position at the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in Chicago, IL.

Research Assistant Professor

Matias Carrasco Kind

Eren Ahsen completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas and did his postdoctoral studies at IBM Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights. He spent two years as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Information System in the Department of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business and a Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois School of Medicine. His primary research interest lies in the fields of decision analysis, machine learning, algorithmic innovation, and their applications to healthcare.

Assistant Professor

Mehmet Eren Ahsen

Michael Penn Jr. has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accountancy since May 2018. He holds a BSBA and a MAcc degree from the University of Arizona and a PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. He presented teaching cases at the MSA/IMA Teaching Case Conference. In 2023, he coauthored a case published in Strategic Finance for the IMA’s 2024 International Student Case Competition. Prior to UIUC, he was an assistant professor in the College of Business Accounting Department at Florida State University.

Senior Lecturer

Michael Penn Jr.

Dr. Mohammad Moshref-Javadi joined the IOSA area at the Department of Business Administration in August 2021. He serves as the Director of the Illinois SCM Corporate Affiliate Program. He mainly focuses on analytics in supply chain, operations, and logistics. Before working at the Gies College of Business, he taught several courses in Analytics in Logistics and Supply Chain at Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2018-2021. He has also worked on several real-world analytics projects with industries at the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT from 2017 to 2019 and in the state of Indiana from 2013 to 2017.

Teaching Assistant Professor

Mohammad Moshref - Javadi

Unnati Narang is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Marketing) at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research lies at the intersection of mobile marketing, consumer mobility, and engagement in digital environments. She uses causal modeling, econometrics, machine learning, and deep learning approaches to examine these research themes. She received her PhD in Marketing from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University in May 2020.

Assistant Professor

Unnati Narang

Vic Anand joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017. Previously, he worked at Goizueta Business School at Emory University. He completed his PhD in accounting at Cornell University. He also holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon and an SB in mechanical engineering from MIT. He previously worked as a senior analyst at Science Applications International Corp. (a defense contractor), a consultant at Deloitte Consulting, and a manufacturing engineer at Ford Motor Company. Anand’s main research areas are cost accounting and the application of machine learning to forecasting accounting and financial data. His other research interest is using machine learning to predict accounting numbers.

Assistant Professor

Vic Anand

Dr. Zilong Liu holds a Ph.D. in finance and has an extensive background in credit risk research. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, he teaches Business Analytics II, Database Management and Design, and Big Data Infrastructure. His research is primarily centered on equity research, with a particular focus on uncovering bias and disparities in AI algorithms and promoting fair lending practices. Dr. Liu is dedicated to bridging the gap between academic research and practical applications, aiming to contribute to a more equitable and inclusive financial system.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Zilong Liu