Academic Faculty Network
University of Arkansas Faculty
Mary Lacity
Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Daniel Conway
Associate Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Kathryn Carlisle
Senior Managing Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Rajiv Sabherwal
Information Systems Department Chair
Paul Cronan
Professor of Information Systems and M. D. Matthews Chair
David Douglas
Emeritus Professor of Information Systems in the Walton College of Business
Ed Pohl
Professor and Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas
Zachary Steelman
Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas Teaching Blockchain Business Courses
Remko van Hoek
Executive Advisor procurement, Professor Walton College of Business, Executive Director CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Fame
Carol Rose Goforth
Professor at University of Arkansas School of Law, Author of Regulations of Cryptotransactions
Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.
Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Food Policy Economics at the University of Arkansas
Justin Zhan
ARA Scholar and Professor at University of Arkansas teaching in the College of Engineering and College of Medicine
Sebastián J. García-Dastugue
Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management of Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
W. Art Chaovalitwongse
Professor of Industrial Engineering, 21st Century Leadership Chair in Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Data Analytics at University of Arkansas
Rhonda Syler
Professor in the Information Systems Department at the Sam M. Walton College of Business and Associate Director of Enterprise Systems at University of Arkansas
Brajendra Panda
Professor in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas
Michael Oh
Lecturer at the Walton College of Business at University of Arkansas
Affiliated Faculty
Kiran Garimella
Chief Scientist & CTO at KoreConX
Roman Beck
Professor at the BusinessIT Department at IT University of Copenhagen
Nitin Kalé
Associate Professor at the University of Southern California
Nasser Arshadi
Professor of Finance at the University of Missouri – St. Louis
Prof. Eric Achtmann
Award-winning Innovator, Entrepreneur, Executive, and Investor
Dr. Stephanie Hurder
Founding Economist at Prysm Group
Ferdinand Regner, MSc
Doctoral Candidate at University of Vienna in the Department of Computer Science
Tom Barbereau
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg
Benjamin Barraza
Senior Manager of Application Development and Adjunct Faculty Member at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah
Carsten Sorensen
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Innovation, Department of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Liudmila Zavolokina
Researcher in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich and Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich
Daniel Gozman
Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School and an Honorary Fellow at Henley Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) at the University of Reading
Gilbert Fridgen
Professor and PayPal-FNR PEARL Chair in Digital Financial Services at the University of Luxembourg
Johannes Sedlmeir
PhD candidate at the University of Bayreuth and a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
Reilly Smethurst
Doctoral Researcher from the FINATRAX Group at the University of Luxembourg
Alexander Rieger
Research Associate at the FINATRAX Research Group at the SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg
Dr. Cathy Barrera
Program Director for the Wharton School’s Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets executive education program
Nallan Suresh
Professor in Department of Operations Management & Strategy at The School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Associate Director of Institute for Sustainable Transportation & Logistics
Horst Treiblmaier
Professor in International Management at Modul University Vienna and a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies of the University College London
Kevin Dooley
Chief Scientist of The Sustainability Consortium, a Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
Roger Dorsey
Associate Professor of Accounting in the School of Business at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Mary Lacity
Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Daniel Conway
Associate Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Kathryn Carlisle
Senior Managing Director of the Blockchain Center of Excellence
Rajiv Sabherwal
Information Systems Department Chair
Paul Cronan
Professor of Information Systems and M. D. Matthews Chair
David Douglas
Emeritus Professor of Information Systems in the Walton College of Business
Remko van Hoek
Executive Advisor procurement, Professor Walton College of Business, Executive Director CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Fame
Zachary Steelman
Assistant Professor at University of Arkansas Teaching Blockchain Business Courses
Ed Pohl
Professor and Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas
Carol Rose Goforth
Professor at University of Arkansas School of Law, Author of Regulations of Cryptotransactions
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W. Art Chaovalitwongse
Professor of Industrial Engineering, 21st Century Leadership Chair in Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Data Analytics at University of Arkansas
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Justin Zhan
ARA Scholar and Professor at University of Arkansas teaching in the College of Engineering and College of Medicine
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Sebastián J. García-Dastugue
Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management of Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
- Research in impacts of adoption of blockchain-based solution in supply chain management
- Interest in the deployment of decentralized blockchain-based ecosystems to improve what traditionally are supply chain activities such as food traceability
- Invited Keynote speaker in conferences in Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, and USA.
- García-Dastugue, Sebastián, Brian Adam, and Blayne Mayfield, “Decentralized Blockchain-based Ecosystem for Food Traceability: deployment, governance and value proposition”, Journal of Business Logistics, submitted December 2019; (under review).
Michael Oh
Lecturer at the Walton College of Business at University of Arkansas
Brajendra Panda
Professor in the Computer Science and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Arkansas
Nasser Arshadi
Professor of Finance at the University of Missouri – St. Louis
Kiran Garimella
Chief Scientist & CTO at KoreConX
Roman Beck
Professor at the BusinessIT Department at IT University of Copenhagen
Nitin Kalé
Associate Professor at the University of Southern California
- Taught first undergraduate course at USC on Blockchain, Fall 2017
Blockchain Service:
- Conducted bootcamps on blockchain for faculty on five contenents and 12 cities in 2018.
Blockchain Interests and Expertise:
- Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, enterprise blockchain, hyperledger, SAP Blockchain services, DLT
Prof. Eric Achtmann
Award-winning Innovator, Entrepreneur, Executive, and Investor
Dr. Stephanie Hurder
Founding Economist at Prysm Group
Ferdinand Regner, MSc
Doctoral Candidate at University of Vienna in the Department of Computer Science
Tom Barbereau
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg
Benjamin Barraza
Senior Manager of Application Development and Adjunct Faculty Member at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah
Carsten Sorensen
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Innovation, Department of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
- Dr Sørensen has researched payment platform and -infrastructure innovation in UK FinTech, and as one aspect of this also covered examples of cryptocurrency systems:
- Kazan, E., C.-W. Tan, E. T. K. Lim, C. Sørensen, & J. Damsgaard (2018): Disentangling Digital Platform Competition: The Case of UK Mobile Payment Platforms. Journal of Management Information Systems — special issue on Financial IS, Underlying Technologies, and the FinTech Revolution, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 180-219.
- He is also engaged in a research project seeking to explore the wider societal and innovation role of blockchains and cryptocurrencies:
- Pitt, J., J. H. Clippinger, & C. Sørensen (2018): Values, Axial Currencies, and Computational Axiology: Digital Currencies Can Do More than Buy Stuff. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 56-63. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8456865/
Blockchain Teaching:
- Dr Sørensen has taught the role of digital platforms and -infrastructures for business transformation to a large number of executives, and as part of this related to blockchain innovation as an important aspect.
- He has recently developed an on-line certificate course for LSE on cryptocurrency and disruption: http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Online-learning/Courses/Cryptocurrency-Investment-and-Disruption
- He is also with colleagues developing an executive course on blockchain transformation to be taught at LSE in 2019
Blockchain Service Activities:
- He is co-editing a special issue of MIS Quarterly Executive on blockchain for business.
Liudmila Zavolokina
Researcher in Information Systems at the Department of Informatics at the University of Zurich and Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich
Daniel Gozman
Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School and an Honorary Fellow at Henley Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) at the University of Reading
- Research fellow at UCL Centre for Blockchain
- Co-Investigator on Blockchain technology for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance (BARAC).
Blockchain Service Activities:
- Contributing to the ISO Standard on Blockchain
Gilbert Fridgen
Professor and PayPal-FNR PEARL Chair in Digital Financial Services at the University of Luxembourg
Johannes Sedlmeir
PhD candidate at the University of Bayreuth and a research assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)
Reilly Smethurst
Doctoral Researcher from the FINATRAX Group at the University of Luxembourg
Alexander Rieger
Research Associate at the FINATRAX Research Group at the SnT, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust at the University of Luxembourg
Roger Dorsey
Associate Professor of Accounting in the School of Business at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nallan Suresh
Professor in Department of Operations Management & Strategy at The School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Associate Director of Institute for Sustainable Transportation & Logistics
- Commencing a new research program on food safety and traceability in agribusiness supply chains
Horst Treiblmaier
Professor in International Management at Modul University Vienna and a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies of the University College London
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Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr.
Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Food Policy Economics at the University of Arkansas
Dr. Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr. is Distinguished Professor and Tyson Endowed Chair in Food Policy Economics at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Nayga’s research interests include the economics of food consumption, policy, and health. He has focused his work on critical issues such as poverty, nutrition, obesity, and novel food technologies using both experimental and observational data.
He has also analyzed the effects of important federal food programs such as the National School Lunch Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program on food consumption and obesity. His work in this area provided crucial information on the causal effects of important federal food programs/policies on health outcomes of various segments of the population including children and historically disadvantaged groups.
- Assessment of consumers’ valuation for food traceability using blockchain technology
Kevin Dooley
Chief Scientist of The Sustainability Consortium, a Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
Dr. Kevin J. Dooley is Chief Scientist of The Sustainability Consortium, a Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. At TSC Dooley leads a global research team that works with over 100 of the world’s largest retailers and manufacturers to develop tools that measure and track progress on critical product sustainability issues.
He has published more than 100 research articles and co-authored an award-winning book Organizational Change and Innovation Processes. Dr. Dooley has provided training or consultation for over 200 companies in the areas of sustainability, supply chain management, quality, and technology and innovation. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Cathy Barrera
Program Director for the Wharton School’s Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets executive education program
Dr. Barrera is a Founding Economist at Prysm Group, a leading economic consulting firm in the blockchain and digital asset industry, and the Program Director for the Wharton School’s Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets executive education program. She is a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer on economics and blockchain. Recent speaking appearances include Consensus, SXSW, NBER, and Blockchain Revolution Global. Her research on the economics and governance of blockchain has been presented at Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley, University of Cambridge, DARPA, and the Federal Reserve.
Dr. Barrera is an advisor to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum, a collaborator of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, and an industry expert for MIT’s executive education course, Blockchain Technologies: Business Innovation and Application. She was previously tenure-track faculty at the S.C. Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and was the Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter. Dr. Barrera received her BA from Northwestern University, where she majored in Communication Studies, Economics and Mathematics. She holds an MSc in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University, where she studied under Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart.