Dr. Ryan Freling joined the Marketing & Quantitative Analysis Department in the College
of Business at Louisiana Tech University in 2017 and is the Thomas O’Kelly Mitchner
Endowed Professor in Business and an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Quantitative
Analysis.
Dr. Freling completed his Ph.D. in Management Science with a concentration in Marketing
from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2017. He also holds an M.B.A. from the
University of Kentucky and a Bachelor of Science in Optical Engineering from the University
of Rochester. While completing his doctoral degree Dr. Freling held visiting lecturer
positions at Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University and the University
of Texas at Arlington.
Dr. Freling teaches analytics courses at the undergraduate and doctoral level in the
College of Business. His research focuses on the application of meta-analytic methods
and he has multiple publications in the Journal of Retailing.
Prior to joining academia, Dr. Freling worked in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing
industry in addition to non-profit sports marketing.
