Second Semester Instructors

Second Semester Instructors

hongcheng liu

ESI 6346, Decision Making Under Uncertainty
352-294-7728
liu.h@ufl.edu

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

  • PhD, Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015
  • B.Sc, Industrial & Manufacturing System Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (China), 2010

Hongcheng Liu serves as Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. His research interests include high-dimensional learning, stochastic optimization, algorithms, and their applications to medical decision-making and traffic modeling. His works have been published in Mathematical Programming, Annals of Statistics, Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Transportation Research Part B and Part C, Transportmetrica A, Information Sciences, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and IEEE Sensors Journal, etc. He is currently an Area Editor for Networks and Spatial Economics. Hongcheng Liu formerly worked as a postdoctoral research scholar in Radiation Oncology at Stanford University between 2015 and 2017. Please see his CV here.


Stephen Kwaku Asare

Steve Asare
ACG 5065, Financial and Managerial Accounting
352-273-0209
stephen.asare@warrington.ufl.edu

Professor of Accounting (KPMG Professor)

  • PhD, University of Arizona, 1989
  • JD (Cum Laude), University of Florida, 2006
  • MBA, Baylor University, 1985; BSc (First Class Honors), University of Ghana, 1982
  • CFE, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, 1996
  • Florida Bar

Professor Asare’s research, which focuses on understanding and improving auditors’ decisions, has appeared in the leading accounting and psychology journals, and has been funded by the AICPA and KPMG Peat Marwick Research Foundation. He is the current editor of the Journal of Accounting Literature. He is also interested in improving governance in transitional democracies. His monograph on the use of criminal law to uphold the Fiduciary Role of Public Officers has been published by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development.

Honors and Awards: Cook Teaching Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching, 2003 and 1997; University of Florida Fisher School of Accounting Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 1999; University of Florida College of Business Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, 1993