Martin P. Loeb is the Deloitte & Touche Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting and Information Assurance (AIA) at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Loeb received his Ph.D. from the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) group at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
In his early career, he conducted research on economic mechanism design, incentive regulation, cost allocations, and cost-based procurement contracting.
Together with Lawrence A. Gordon, he developed a model that provides a mathematical economic approach for deriving an organization’s optimal investment level in cybersecurity.
In 2015, the Financial Times ranked the doctoral program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business #9 in the world.