CBA WELCOMES NEW FACULTY

JOSE MANUEL MOTA AQUINO Assistant Professor of Economics

Dr. Jose M. Mota is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Houston. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the same university in 2023. His main research interests are macroeconomics and development macroeconomics. He studies issues related to international migration, remittances, and inequality using heterogeneous household models informed by micro-data. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Mota spent a summer as a visiting scholar in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He also has experience working as a researcher at several government institutions in his home country, the Dominican Republic. He is committed to teaching and mentoring students.

MIKE YUAN Assistant Professor of Accounting

Dr. Ming (Mike) Yuan is an assistant professor of Accounting at UNO. Prior to joining the UNO School of Accounting, Dr. Yuan taught as an assistant professor of accounting at South Dakota State University. He earned his Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He has taught courses in financial accounting and managerial accounting. His research interests include auditing, tax, and financial accounting. Dr. Yuan lives in Lincoln and has a 14-year-old daughter who loves math and a 9-year-old son who enjoys playing soccer in his Gladiators team.