Lisa Haylon joined the Quinnipiac community from Southern Connecticut State University where she was a tenured associate professor. She earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree in accounting from Fairfield University and a Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Scranton.

She began her career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP before transitioning to academia. Her research focuses on social influences, fraud and pedagogy. Her dissertation was awarded the IIA’s Michael J. Barrett Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2022. 

Shizhen (Jasper) Jia joined Quinnipiac as an asistant professor in business analytics and information systems, with strong expertise in research and industry connections.

Jia’s research focuses on human and AI interactions, more specifically how those interactions shape an individual's decision making, as well as ethical implications of innovation having to do with cyber security, information privacy, inclusivity and governance.

Previously, Jia worked as a research assistant and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2025.

Jia joins Quinnipiac most excited about the people-oriented culture, noting that everyone he's met so far has been warm and welcoming. 

Deokkyung Ock joined the Quinnnipaic community from the University of South Carolina, where he earned his Ph.D. in sport and entertainment management. Ock also studied sport management at Seoul National University in South Korea.

His research is focused on consumer behavior in sport, more specifically how emerging technologies are transforming the ways sport organizations engage with fans and how fans consume sport in digital environments.

Ock is especially excited to join Quinnipiac’s growing sport and entertainment management program, which responds to students’ real-time needs. He looks forward to contributing to the program’s continued development and to creating meaningful opportunities for students to thrive in the sport industry, as an assistant professor of management. 

Luis Gouveia Coutin SaCouto, assistant professor in business analytics, has joined the School of Business. He earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Lisbon, where his research on associative memory and vision earned the highest distinction. He has published more than 10 papers, authored a machine learning textbook, and taught AI and ML for six years as an invited lecturer.

With experience at McKinsey and as Principal ML Scientist at DareData, his interests span both the foundational assumptions of learning systems and their applications in business and finance. As passionate scuba diver, he spent several summers working as a dive guide and regularly travels to some of the most remote places on Earth just to explore the underwater world.

Stan Veliotis comes from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, where he served the last three years as chair of its accounting department and taught tax and some accounting classes during his 18 years there.

Aside from serving as department chair here, he will also teach tax and accounting classes. Veliotis’s research focuses on empirical evidence of taxpayer response to tax laws and his policy work addresses tax law inefficiencies.

Veliotis earned his Ph.D. in business from University of Connecticut, his LL.M. in tax from New York University, his J.D. from Fordham University, and his bachelor's in accounting from Baruch College.

As a licensed attorney and CPA, Veliotis holds these licenses active and previously worked in accounting and law firms for over a decade.

Veliotis and his family fell in love with Connecticut when he attended University of Connecticut and has never left.