Ph.D. Placement Summary
Our students find jobs in academia (U.S. and foreign universities), government agencies and central banks, and in the private sector (technology companies, finance, private research organizations). Here’s a breakdown of placements over the past five years, by employment category.
Our students have found jobs in the U.S., Canada, China, Singapore, India, the United
Kingdom, Australia, Austria, South Africa, and in many other countries. Here is a
breakdown of initial job placements by geographic location:
| Name | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Parush Arora | Ashoka University | 2024 |
| Zhongying Gan | Roger Williams University | 2024 |
| Jieyu Gao | 2024 | |
| Nicole Golden | U.S. Census Bureau | 2024 |
| Bessy Liao | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo | 2024 |
| Robert MacDonald | Cirque Analytics | 2024 |
| Manasvi Sharma | FLAME University | 2024 |
| Himani Sharma | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 2024 |
| Aaron Sullivan | UC Irvine Criminology, Law and Society | 2024 |
| Karan Talathi | FLAME University | 2024 |
| Derek Tran | Amazon | 2024 |
| Wells Zhou | Bank of China, New York Branch | 2024 |
| Daniel Firoozi | Claremont McKenna College | 2023 |
| Jai Kedia | Cato Institute | 2023 |
| Ajay Kirpekar | Edward Jones | 2023 |
| Francisco Klapp | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez | 2023 |
| Greta Meggiorini | University of Auckland | 2023 |
| Colin Reinhardt | Capital One | 2023 |
| Jaclyn Rosenquist | Center for Naval Analyses | 2023 |
| Avik Sanyal | Illinois State University | 2023 |
| Sayantani | UCLA Anderson School of Management | 2023 |
| Saad Andalib Syed Shah | Wenzhou-Kean University | 2023 |
| Abhiprerna Smit | College of William & Mary | 2023 |
| Hina Usman | University of Michigan, Institute of Social Research | 2023 |
| Mahima Vasishth | Bocconi University, Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies | 2023 |
| Mike Vo | University of Connecticut | 2023 |
| Zoe Zhao | 4Liberty, Inc. | 2023 |
| Carolina Acuna Armenta | Marquette University | 2022 |
| Derek Christopher | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research | 2022 |
| Kyle Colangelo | Amazon | 2022 |
| Aria Golestani | Northeastern University | 2022 |
| Sidra Haye | USC, Schaffer Center for Health Policy and Economics | 2022 |
| Shantanu Khanna | Northeastern University | 2022 |
| Yoonjung Kim | Korea Institute for International Economic Policy | 2022 |
| Kyle Kole | University of Utah | 2022 |
| Daniel Ladd | Quantitative Economic Solutions | 2022 |
| Taylor Mackay | California State University, Fullerton | 2022 |
| Elizabeth (Molly) Malone | Brattle Group | 2022 |
| Nishtha Sharma | NYU-Abu Dhabi | 2022 |
| Zarak Sohail | Meta | 2022 |
| Joy Diana Xiuyao Yang | Washington and Lee University | 2022 |
| Erya Yang | Sun Yat-sen University Business School | 2022 |
| Nayib Rene Zamarripa | Central Michigan University | 2022 |
| Maysen Yen | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | 2021 |
| Sarah Thomaz | Economic Health Office, City of Fort Collins, Colorado | 2021 |
| Kendrick Morales | Spelman College | 2021 |
| Alexandra Marr | Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) | 2021 |
| Fabrizio Marodin | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | 2021 |
| Maximillian Littlejohn | Millsaps College | 2021 |
| Lucie Lebeau | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas | 2021 |
| Patrick Julius | University of Edinburgh | 2021 |
| Mark Hup | Peking University | 2021 |
| Amir Goren | Economist, General Motors | 2021 |
| Cody Couture | Hamilton College | 2021 |
| Andrew Benson | Sandia National Laboratories | 2021 |
| Neil Bennett | US Census Bureau in the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division | 2020 |
| Andy Zanazanian | U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) | 2020 |
| Samuel Valdez | UCLA Fielding School of Public Health | 2020 |
| Nikki Tavasoli | FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) | 2020 |
| Zachery Schaller | Colorado State University | 2020 |
| Alexander Parret | 2020 | |
| Amaze Lusompa | Kansas City Fed | 2020 |
| Paul Jackson | National University of Singapore | 2020 |
| Francisco Ilabaca | Office of Financial Research at the Department of the Treasury | 2020 |
| Sanjana Goswami | Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy National University of Singapore | 2020 |
| Brittany Bass | Sacramento State University | 2019 |
| Nikolaos Charalampidis | Laval University | 2019 |
| Marco Del Angel | Cal State Los Angeles | 2019 |
| Kurt Horner | Shiv Nadar University, India | 2019 |
| Nagwa Khordagui | U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General, DC | 2019 |
| Alexander Luttmann | MITRE Corporation, Transporation Performance and Economic Analysis Div. | 2019 |
| Cody Nehiba | Louisiana State University | 2019 |
| Padma Sharma | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | 2019 |
| Michael Shin | University of Sydney | 2019 |
| Patrick Testa | Tulane University | 2019 |
| Timothy Young | Analysis Group LA | 2019 |
| Pratiti Chatterjee | University of New South Wales, Sydney | 2018 |
| Wyatt Clarke | IBM | 2018 |
| Kara Dimitruk | Stellenbosch University | 2018 |
| Si-Yuan Kong | MobLab Inc. | 2018 |
| Amine Mahmassani | Activision | 2018 |
| Jessica Monnet | Sam Houston State University | 2018 |
| Byunggeor Moon | Sejong University Seoul, South Korea | 2018 |
| Jason Ralston | Baylor University Postdoctoral Fellow | 2018 |
| Peter Shirley | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research | 2018 |
| Cole Williams | University of Vienna | 2018 |
| Irina Zotova | Micronomics | 2018 |
| Brian Asquith | Post Doc, The National Bureau of Economic Research | 2017 |
| Ayushi Bajaj | Monash University, Australia | 2017 |
| Argo Bhattacharya | Ashoka University, India | 2017 |
| Ian Burn | Stockholm University, Sweden | 2017 |
| Mayuri Chaturvedi | Post Doc, Columbia University | 2017 |
| Nanneh Chehras | Amazon | 2017 |
| Michael Gou | Pricewaterhousecoopers | 2017 |
| Michael Guggisberg | Institute for Defense Analysis | 2017 |
| Louie Liu | Southern California Edison | 2017 |
| Fulya Ozcan | Amazon | 2017 |
| Mario Silva | Tongji University, China | 2017 |
| Anne Carpenter | University of Nevada, Reno | 2016 |
| Ian Finn | Welch Consulting, Los Angeles | 2016 |
| Matthew Kidder | University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China | 2016 |
| Paul Lombardi | Post Doc, UC Davis | 2016 |
| Sam Lundstrom | Litigation Analytics | 2016 |
| Brent Lutes | Brattle Group | 2016 |
| Kim Makuch | Federal Communications Commission | 2016 |
| Garret Ridinger | University of Nevada, Reno | 2016 |
| Jennifer Muz | George Washington University | 2016 |
| Michael Sacks | West Virgina University | 2016 |
| Paul Stroik | Northern Illinois University | 2016 |
| Jiaxi Wang | Uber, Beijing, China | 2016 |
| Xiyan Wang | JD Power, Los Angeles | 2016 |
| Katherine Williams | Analysis Group, Los Angeles | 2016 |
| Blake Allison | Emory University | 2015 |
| Patrick Button | Tulane University | 2015 |
| Stephan Cole | Marquette University | 2015 |
| David Conway | Gurtin Fixed Income Management 2015 | 2015 |
| Kristoffer Jackson | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | 2015 |
| Justin Jarvis | Truman State University | 2015 |
| Micahel Lefors | Truman State University | 2015 |
| Andrew Porter | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Compliance Risk Analysis Division | 2015 |
| Angela Vossmeyer | Claremont McKenna College | 2015 |
| Timothy Wong | National University of Singapore | 2015 |
| Ji Won Baek | Economics and Management Research Institute, Korea Telecom | 2014 |
| Scott Barkowski | Clemson University | 2014 |
| Michael Caldara | Amazon | 2014 |
| Christopher Elias | Eastern Michigan University | 2014 |
| Fan Jiang | Hanover Research | 2014 |
| Deven Kapadia | JP Morgan Chase | 2014 |
| Dan Luo | Brattle Group | 2014 |
| Michael Mills | Price Waterhouse Coopers | 2014 |
| Erik Peterson | Modesto Junior College | 2014 |
| Pi-Han Tsai | Zhejiang University | 2014 |
| Ryan Baranowski | Coe College | 2013 |
| Andrew Chang | Federal Reserve Board, Division of Research and Statistics | 2013 |
| Theodore Figinski | U.S. Department of the Treasury | 2013 |
| Diego Grijalva | Universidad San Francisco de Quito | 2013 |
| Ryan Kendall | USC Experimental Economics Laboratory (LABEL) | 2013 |
| Rui Liu | San Jose State University | 2013 |
| Alicia Lloro | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | 2013 |
| Arshad Mohammad | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | 2013 |
| Meryl Motika | St. Lawrence University | 2013 |
| Haelim Park | U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Research | 2013 |
| George Saioc | OnPoint Analytics | 2013 |
| John Salas | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies | 2013 |
| James Siodla | Colby College | 2013 |
| Ji Hyun Song | SUNY-Buffalo | 2013 |
| Cathy Zhang | Purdue University | 2013 |
| Guoxiong Zhang | Shanghai Jio Tong University | 2013 |
| Payel Chowdury | Bank of America | 2012 |
| Jonathan Cook | Public Company Accounting Oversight Board | 2012 |
| Phillip Li | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency | 2012 |
| Nilopa Shah | UC Irvine | 2012 |
| Daria Burnes | Charles Rivers Associates Intl | 2011 |
| George Ng | YarcData | 2011 |
| Antara Sen | University of East Anglia | 2011 |
| Ana Pesic | Price Waterhouse Coopers | 2011 |
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Additional Placements from Previous Years
Academic
California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Fullerton
California State University, San Francisco
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna College
Clemson University
Coe College
Eastern Michigan University
Universidad Complupense de Madrid
George Washington University
Gettysburg College
Gordon College
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Johnson & Wales University
Juniata College
Marquette University
Missouri State University
Modesto Junior College
National Chi Nan University of Taiwan
National University of Singapore
New College of Florida
Northern Illinois University
Purdue University
Spiru Haret University
St. Lawrence University
San Jose State University
Shanghai Jio Tong University
SUNY - Buffalo
Technical University of Denmark
Truman State University
Tulane University
University of California, Davis
University of East Anglia, Norwich
University of International Business and Economics
University of Michigan-Dearborn
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Oklahoma
University of Regina
University of Southern California
University of Toronto
Vancouver Island University
Virginia Commonwealth University
West Virginia University
Whittier College
Zhejiang University
Government
Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
Central Bank of Mexico
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve Board of Govenors
Korea Institute for International Economic Policy
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Compliance Risk Analysis Division
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, U.S. Department of Treasury
U.S. Department of Treasury
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC
Volpe National Transporation Systems Center
World Bank
Private Sector
Analysis Group
Bank of America
Brattle Group
Cornerstone Research
Deloitte
Economic Research Service
ECONorthwest, Consulting Corporation
Eviews/IHS Software Company
Gurtin Fixed Income Management, LLC
Hanover Research
JD Power
JP Morgan Chase
Knightsbridge Asset Management, LLC
Litigation Analytics
McKinsey & Co
National Economic Research Associates
OnPoint Analytics
Picoco LLC
Price Waterhouse/Coopers
Qatar Central Bank
StataCorp LP
Southern California Edison
Uber
Welch Consulting
Research Institutes
Public Policy Institute of California
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