Speaker:  Rohit Verma, PhD, Provost, Professor, College of Business and Management (Joint research with Prof. Mike Dixon, Utah State University and Prof. Liana Victorino, University of Victoria) The most salient or “peak” encounter (either pleasure or pain) often defines customers’ perceived value (or utility) of a service or an experience. Past research suggests that the […]

Speaker: Vaughn Tan, Ph.D, Assistant Professor at University College London’s School of Management, in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship group. Vaughn received his PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Harvard University Abstract: “Risk” and “uncertainty” are usually conflated—but they are fundamentally different and have different implications for management research and practice. In particular, treating uncertain situations as […]

Speaker: Kok-Seng Wong, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science Topic:  In the awakening of cutting-edge technology, companies such as Apple, Waymo, and Tesla are racing to launch the industry’s first fully autonomous car. Besides the technical challenges (safeness and infrastructure), privacy and data protection have attracted the autonomous vehicle industry and researchers’ attention. […]

Speaker: Huynh Dinh Chien, PhD, Director, Pre-Clinical Medicine and Teaching Labs Topic:  Some early results of the study will be shown with some discussion about the quality of the measurement.

Speaker: Thomas Oikonomou, PhD, Faculty, College of Engineering and Computer Science Topic:  There have recently been various proposals of statistical entropic measures in order to create a theoretical thermodynamic foundation for complex out-of-equilibrium systems. Their (in)appropriateness is discussed and analyzed on the ground of the Maximum Entropy Principle. In this presentation, I will demonstrate a […]

Speaker: Kyunghwa Chung (Jenny), PhD, Assistant Professor of Marketing, College of Business and Management: Title: AI, I need consoling! The importance of AI is increasing in the service industry. Many firms are replacing their call center staff with AI chatbot services. But are consumers really satisfied with AI services? What do consumers really want when they […]

Speaker: Billy Wheeler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Science and Society Title:  From a Daoist point of view what should the appropriate relationship be between man and machine? Although technology has influenced mankind for millennia, the exponential growth of digital technologies in recent years has transformed the way we live beyond recognition. In this talk I […]

Speaker: Dung Le (Jenny), Assistant Professor, College of Business and Management, VinUniversity The Covid-19 pandemic has long-lasting impacts that require the hotel sector to revise, innovate and transform their businesses. However, the literature related to this area remains vastly under-developed. Based on 219 articles collected from global news media and an integrated crisis management framework, […]

Professor Joseph Halpern, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell University. (Full Bio: https://math.cornell.edu/joseph-halpern) Abstract: Several Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work showing  that humans do not behave as maximum utility maximizers, as standard economic theory predicts.  Yet they are “predictably irrational”:  their deviations from rational behavior are quite systematic.  Our goal is to […]

Speaker: Le Van Quynh, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science In this talk, I will introduce the prospects of nanotechnologies to address global energy challenges. In the second part, I will focus on the directions of my research group. We use advances in nanotechnology to develop a new generation of LEDs with […]

Speaker: Ryan McAuley, MD, MPH, Program Director Internal Medicine Residency Program Abstract: South Sudan is the newest country on Earth, having gained its independence from Sudan in 2011 after 40 years of brutal civil war. The world looked upon this new nation with high hopes for growth and economic development, but unfortunately peace and prosperity did […]

Speaker: Jason Picard, PhD, Founding Assistant Professor of Vietnamese History and Culture The significance of this event should not be underestimated – about 8% of the northern population fled South, setting the stage for war. Yet the migration remains little understood and, when discussed, clouded by the politics of the Vietnam War/Cold War. I will plan […]