Full-Time Faculty

Professor, Deputy Chair
Office Location: PH-Room-215B
Phone: 718-997-5074
Email: Arthur.Adelberg@qc.cuny.edu

I became a member of the Department of Accounting & Information Systems in 1973. I served as Chair of the Department from 1984 to 1990 and currently serve as Deputy Chair for Day Session. I earned a B.A. in Accounting from Queens College in 1967, a MBA in Accounting from Baruch College in 1969, and a PhD in Accounting from CUNY in 1977. Prior to joining the Queens College faculty (most of whom were my teachers when I was an undergraduate), I became a NYS Certified Public Accountant while on the audit staffs of Arthur Young & Co. and Haskins & Sells. My primary research relates to communication theory and external financial reporting while my secondary research relates to theoretical issues and practical applications in Management Accounting.

Director, M.S. Program in Taxation
Office Location: PH-Room-215 R
Phone: 718-997-5067
Email: Dianand.Balkaran@qc.cuny.edu

I deeply respect the tremendous responsibility and the opportunity of having a hand in shaping Queens College’s (QC) future business professionals. I have a passion for helping students. I have been successful in helping students pass the CPA exam at QC. I currently teach Taxation, Advanced, Intermediate, Governmental, Not for Profit and Auditing Accounting. I taught all mentioned accounting courses in the past, including Cost at Baruch as well as the BEC and FAR sections of the CPA exam at the Becker. My diverse leadership exposure in strategic planning & budgeting, business management, accounting, auditing, tax, cost-saving strategies, large scale system implementation, construction projects management, and running an independent CPA firm for a while joined with my teaching capacity, leaves me with a unique opportunity to present my courses with appropriate real-life examples.

Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215C
Phone: 718-997-5071
Email: Israel.Blumenfrucht@qc.cuny.edu

Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215L
Phone: 718-997-5089
Email: Nicky.Dauber@qc.cuny.edu

Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215 J
Email: Amy.David@qc.cuny.edu

I have been teaching accounting since 2002, and became tenured at Queens College in 2007. I received both my B.A. and M.S. in Accounting at Queens College. Arthur Andersen & Co. provided an excellent foundation and training as an auditor. I then worked as Assistant Controller for a major advertising company in New York City as well as in small private auditing firms. Many years later I returned to Queens College to teach, and now enjoy sharing an enthusiasm for and love of accounting with my students. My goal when teaching is to differentiate instruction to best meet the learning styles of the students, whether more verbal, auditory or visual learners. Very often I will act out in front of the class to emphasize a lesson; I am usually quite animated.

Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215 O
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Neal.Hitzig@qc.cuny.edu

I am now in my third career, as an educator. I have been an engineer in the aerospace and telecommunications industries and a partner and senior consultant for a Big Four firm. I have served clients in many industries (financial services, telecommunications, airlines, banking, insurance). I also testified in deposition or at trial as an expert witness in a variety of federal and state civil litigations (private anti-trust, contract, securities, insurance). I am a long-time member of the editorial board of The CPA Journal, and has served on committees of the New York State Society of CPAs and the AICPA.
My mission is to give my students some of the benefits of my professional lifetime of experience in the ‘real world’ of business, as well as some understanding of the demands that world now imposes on young professionals.

Associate Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-214 F
Phone: 718-997-5037
Email: Qianyun.huang@qc.cuny.edu

I joined Queens College in 2010 after receiving my PhD in accounting from Florida Atlantic University. I have taught financial and managerial accounting in both graduate and undergraduate level. My research interests include capital markets, earnings disclosure and quality, securitization, information asymmetry, and informed trading.

Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215 M
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Vijay.Kumar@qc.cuny.edu

Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215 P
Phone: email to schedule a call
Email: bleibowicz@qc.cuny.edu

Six years after I graduated from Queens College, I returned to Queens to teach. In the interim I got my law degree from the University of Connecticut, served in the Army, and received an LL.M. degree in taxation from the NYU Law School. I love teaching and the opportunity it gives me to share what I have learned with my students. I am particularly interested in the place of legal institutions in protecting the rights of the individual in our society and have made law both by writing statutes and establishing case law.

Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room- 215 Q
Phone: 718-997-5092

Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-214 D
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Anique.Qureshi@qc.cuny.edu

I joined Queens College in 1993 after receiving my Ph.D. from Rutgers University. I have taught courses in Intermediate Accounting, Cost Accounting, Auditing, Government Accounting and Information Systems. My research interests are primarily in Information Systems and Auditing.

Assistant Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215F
Email: eric.rosano@qc.cuny.edu

Eric Rosano joined Queens College in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Accounting and Information Systems Department. Professor Rosano conducts financial archival research with an emphasis on the accounting information environment and the influence of emerging technologies on accounting as well as the importance of ESG focus in modern accounting and business.

Professor Rosano earned his B.S. and M.S. from Arizona State University and Ph.D. in Accounting from Florida State University. He previously served in the U.S. Army as both an Infantryman and Crypto-linguist.

Lecturer
Office Location: PH-Room-215 R
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Scott.Ruthizer@qc.cuny.edu

After receiving my MBA, I went into public accounting performing certified audits, financial statement analysis, tax compliance, and managerial advisory services. Prior to my career in accounting I was involved in healthcare administration and the development of numerous business entities in the publishing and diagnostic healthcare industries. I started teaching at Queens College in 1996 on a part-time basis. Currently I am a full time lecturer, teaching Principles of Accounting, Taxation and Auditing. In addition I am the Department’s Internship Advisor. I bring practical experience in all areas of study to the classroom. In almost every session I spend some portion of the lecture discussing real world applications. By the time you complete one of my sections you will have a good understanding of the accounting industry.

Lecturer, Minor Advisor
Office Location: PH-Room-214 B
Phone: 718-997-5088
Email: Jeffrey.Satenstein@qc.cuny.edu

I am a Lecturer of Accounting and specialize in financial statement analysis, derivative financial instruments, business combinations and auditing services provided by CPAs. Prior to joining Queens College, I was managing director for operational risk at JPMorgan Chase Investment Bank and Chief Financial Officer for Global Risk Management and Trading. I joined the faculty of Accounting & Information Systems in 2004 and am a CPA, holding a BA from Queens College and a MS from New York University.

Associate Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-214 G
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Steven.Solieri@qc.cuny.edu

Assistant Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-214
Phone: 718-997-
Email: jangwon.suh@qc.cuny.edu

Before joining Queens College, Jangwon Suh was affiliated with NYIT, LIU Post, and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, after earnings a Ph.D. from Baruch College. His teaching experience ranges from financial accounting to managerial accounting, auditing, data analytics, programming (Python), and AIS. Other than teaching, he is conducting research on financial accounting using data analytics. His research is published in Review of Accounting Studies, Accounting Horizons, and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.

Professor
Director, M.S. Program in Accounting
Office Location: PH-Room-214 E
Phone: 718-997-5078
Email: Fang.Sun@qc.cuny.edu

I joined Queens College in the Fall 2014 as a faculty member of the Department of Accounting & Information Systems. Prior to joining the Queens College faculty, I taught at Hunter College after receiving my PhD in Accounting from Temple University. My research focuses on pension accounting, auditing, executive compensation, capital market, and loss reserve error. I have taught courses in Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, and Governmental and Institutional Accounting.

Assistant Professor
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Tao.Sun@qc.cuny.edu

I received my master’s degree in accounting from Virgina Tech and PhD degree in accounting from Drexel University in Philadelphia. I worked as a CPA before I started to pursue my PhD degree. My current research interests include topics in financial accounting and managerial accounting, such as executive compensation, corporate governance, and earnings quality. I taught both undergraduate and graduate managerial and financial accounting courses at Roosevelt University before I joined Queens College.

Associate Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215 K
Phone: 718-997-
Email: Michael.Stevens@qc.cuny.edu

I am an associate professor in the Department and teach an undergraduate course in managerial accounting which contains some interesting mathematical topics. I also teach a graduate course in taxation related to business entities and have published numerous articles in taxation. I enjoy teaching such diverse courses because I have been fortunate to have studied mathematics, accounting, law and taxation. I also serve the Department as co-director of the graduate Master’s degree program.

MBA, CPA, CMA, CGMA
Lecturer
Office Location: Powdermaker 215-J
Email: jian.xiao@qc.cuny.edu

New Year Resolution:
– Laugh, Love, Live
Teaching Philosophy:
Engaging students in Real World strategically to enhance effective learning and maximize community impact.
Jian Xiao is an instrumental practitioner and educator in Strategic Financial Management. After serving as an International Controller at MetLife, ABM AMRO, Merrily Lynch and consultant to the CFO of Soros Fund Management, she founded a boutique consulting firm, Turning Point Solutions, providing Accounting, Advisory and Technical Training in private, government and NFP sectors. Currently, she oversees $100MM+ portfolio for the largest public administrator of NYC and advised and trained hundreds of business owners under the MWBE mentorship programs of the NYC Small Business and School of Construction Authority.

Jian is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence from Gabelli School of Business of Fordham University and was nominated by 125 MBA students for the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch. After teaching accounting undergraduate, graduate and Executive MBA for Zicklin School of Business of Baruch, Jian joined Queens College at 2012 to share best practices with the Class of Governmental and NFP Accounting, Reporting and Audit (Acct 372 & Acct 773).

Believing in exploring real-world case in real time is the effective way of connecting students with executives and business leaders, Jian arranged for her class to participate in the NYC Audit Committee Meeting, customized the NYC Comptroller’s office visit, engaged Deputy Comptroller of NYC to brainstorm with her class’s NYC CAFR valuation and placed students to government agencies upon their graduations. Starting Spring 2021, Jian, who is passionate about data science, is looking forward to teaming up with Bloomberg and FBI teams to bring industry best practice to the classroom and enable the Data Analytic for Accountants Class (Acct 385 & Acct 791) to explore how to develop in-demand data and turn risk into opportunities in the professional world.

Jian holds a BBA in Public Accounting and a MBA in Finance and Investment from Baruch College, CUNY. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) of New York State, a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) of AICPA and CIMA. Jian earned the IMA Data Analytics & Visualization Fundamentals Certificate and currently serves on the IMA Small Business Global Committee. Jian has built two IMA Students chapters including building the 2nd IMA Virtual Student Chapter during Covid 19.

Jian is featured at QView #44, Building Futures Profile: Jian Xiao, Offering Accounting Students “Real World Engagement”, March 2019
And the Journal of Accountancy, “From Controller to Consultant”, January 2019 https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2019/jan/from-controller-to-consultant.html

Assistant Professor
Office Location: PH 215S
Email: yan.yan@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Yan Yan received her Ph.D. in Accounting from Baruch College, City University of New York in 2016. Prior to joining Queens College, she was an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Professor Yan Yan’s research interests include cost behavior, cost management, and supply chain management. Her research has been published in Journal of Corporate Finance and Asian Accounting Review

Assistant Professor
Office Location: PH-Room-215H
Email: yu.zhang@qc.cuny.edu

Tony Zhang joined Queens College in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor. His teaching areas include financial and managerial accounting, and accounting information system, and his research is published in Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and China Accounting and Finance Review, etc. Professor Zhang received his B.Com. and M.S. from Concordia University, Canada, and Ph.D. in Accounting from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining Queens College, he was an Associate Professor at Lawrence Technological University.