Hyungchan Cho
Ph.D. Candidate in Technology and Operations
M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Welcome!
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professors Damian Beil and Andrew Wu.
My research focuses on two main streams:
(1) Operations-Finance Interface focuses on the causal drivers of operational performance, identifying how specific corporate decisions —like ESG adoption and leadership composition— translate into measurable operational improvements; and
(2) Operations as Information that uses domain-tuned LLMs to analyze how the communication of operational information influences financial analyst forecasts and how the adoption of new technologies (e.g., Robotics and Voice AI) affects consumer behavior.
Before my Ph.D. journey, I worked as a Fellow Actuary at Korean Reinsurance Company for five years. I completed an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, and a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.B.A. in Business Administration (minor in Statistics) at Korea University.
I am on the 2025–2026 academic job market.