Internet Marketing (social media marketing, search engine marketing, social networks, clickstream analysis, electronic word-of-mouth marketing, e-commerce, recommendation systems, consumer-generated content), Text Analysis, Eye-tracking and Data Mining.

       Social Media and Internet Marketing

• Ph.D. (Marketing), 2007, UCLA Anderson School of Management
  
• MBA, 2000, California State University Northridge
  
• M.A., Computer Science, 1995, Riga Technical University
  
• B.A., Computer Science, 1993, Riga Technical University
  

• Associate Professor of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2013-present)
  
• Assistant Professor of Marketing, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2007-2013)
  
• IT Development Manager, Automatic Response Technologies, San Clemente, CA (2000-2002)
  
• Principal, Trusoft, Northridge, CA (1998-2000)
  
• Programmer/Analyst, Information Products Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA (1995-1999)
  
• Network Administrator, UniBanka (now SEB Unibanka), Riga, Latvia (1994-1995)
  

• 2015: Winner, William F. O'Dell Award
  
• 2014: Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence, Top 35 Most Cited Management Articles from the past 15 years (chosen out of 200,000+ articles)
  
• 2014: Journal of Marketing, Top 10 Articles with the most impact on marketing practice
  
• 2014: Journal of Marketing Research, Top 10 Articles with the most impact on marketing practice (2004 to 2012)
  
• 2013: Named as one of Top 50 Most Productive Researchers in Marketing, 2009-2013 (AMA DocSIG, 2013)
  
• 2013: Ranked among the top 50 most productive researchers for 2009-2013 (AMA's DocSig Author Research Productivity)
  
• 2013: Finalist, Frank M. Bass Award
  
• 2012: MSI Young Scholar
  
• 2011: Winner, SMA Emerging Scholar Award
  
• 2011: Winner, Donald R. Lehmann Award
  
• 2011: Featured in Financial Times' Business Education "Professor of the Week"
  
• 2011: Marketing Science Institute Research Grant Award
  
• 2011: Finalist, Best Paper Award, International Journal of Research in Marketing
  
• 2011: Winner, Paul E. Green Award
  
• 2010: Top 15% Teaching Award, Robert H. Smith School of Business
  
• 2010: Marketing Science Institute Research Grant Award
  
• 2010: Winner, Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award
  
• 2010: Featured in Research@Smith
  
• 2009: Runner-up, MSI/H. Paul Root Award
  
• 2009: Finalist, Harold H. Maynard Award
  
• 2006: Winner, Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Competition, Marketing Science Institute
  
• 2006: Fellow, Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium
  
• 2002-2006: Ph.D. Degree Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA
  
• 2002-2005: Ph.D. Summer Fellowship, UCLA Anderson School of Management
  

• Program Chair-Elect for the American Statistical Association's Marketing and Statistics Section, 2011.
  

• Editorial Review Board member, International Journal of Research in Marketing
  
• Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Interactive Marketing
  
• Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Marketing Research
  
• Editorial Review Board member, Journal of Marketing
  
• Editorial Review Board member, Marketing Science
  
  
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research
  
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, MIS Quarterly
  
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Marketing Letters
  
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Management Science