Faculty Highlights
Brent Ambrose
Professor of Risk Management
Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate
Director of Institute for Real Estate Studies
Dr. Brent Ambrose is the Jason and Julie Borrelli Faculty Chair in Real Estate, Director of the Borrelli Institute for Real Estate Studies, Director of the Smeal College Ph.D. Program, and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business. Read More...
Liang Peng
Professor of Risk Management
The Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration
Dr. Liang Peng is a Professor of Risk Management and the Philip H. Sieg Professor of Business Administration at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. Read More...
Eva Maria Steiner
Associate Professor of Real Estate
King Family Early Career Professor
Dr. Eva Steiner is an associate professor of real estate within the Risk Management Department of Smeal Business College, where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Steiner has worked for the university since the summer of 2020, and before then she was an assistant professor of real estate at Cornell from 2016 to 2020. Read More...
Jiro Yoshida
Associate Professor of Business
Jeffery L. and Cindy M. King Faculty Fellow
Dr. Jiro Yoshida is an associate professor of business at Penn State with a specialization in real estate. Dr. Yoshida teaches several courses on the financial analysis of real estate to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students. Before joining the Penn State faculty, he was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Tokyo, which is also where he received his undergraduate degree in urban engineering. He later went on to earn a master's degree in real estate from MIT, master's and Ph.D. degrees in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Read More...