Shaoming
Cheng is an assistant professor at the Department of Public Administration,
Florida International University. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from
George Mason University. His research interests center on entrepreneurship and
small business development policy, and regional economic health, performance,
and development. He has been engaged in a wide variety of funded research
projects with support from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Economic
Development Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has
published his work in numerous academic journals and is a current executive
council member of the Southern Regional Science Association. His book
coauthored with Emel Ganapati and Sukumar Ganapati and under contracted with
the Edward Elgar Publishing is titled: Measuring Disaster Recovery: Bouncing
Back or Reaching the Counterfactual State following Hurricane Katrina.