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Recent Graduates and Current Students

Student Track Record

The Ph.D. program in accounting has an outstanding and impressive track record in terms of quality of placements and research. Below are a list our graduates, placements and awards for dissertation research.

Accounting Graduates

Steven Huddart (1991)
Initial Placement at Stanford University

Bente Villadsen (1993)
Initial Placement at Washington University in St. Louis

Yuanyuan Jiang (2004)
Initial Placement at Cornerstone Research

Yun Zhang (2004)
Initial Placement at Duke University

Ling Zhou (2004)
Initial Placement at Tulane University

Zhiyan Cao (2006)
Initial Placement at University of Washington-Tacoma

Francesco Bova (2008)
Initial Placement at University of Toronto
Committee: Ederhof, Mittendorf, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Pingyang Gao (2008)
Initial Placement at University of Chicago
Committee: Antle, Geanakoplos, Mittendorf, Sunder (chair)

Dae-Hee Yoon (2008)
Initial Placement at City University of New York
Committee: Antle, Mittendorf, Shin, Sunder (chair)

Foong Soon Cheong (2009)
Initial Placement at Rutgers University
Committee: Ederhof, Mittendorf, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Panagiotis Patatoukas (2010)
Initial Placement at University of California-Berkeley
Committee: Mittendorf, Sunder, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Kai Du (2012)
Initial Placement at Pennsylvania State University
Committee: Antel, Sunder (chair), Thomas, Tsyvinski

Wei Zhu (2013)
Initial Placement at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Committee: Kolev, Lerman, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Aytekin Ertan (2014)
Initial Placement at London Business School
Committee: Lerman, Sunder, Thomas (chair), Zhang

James Potepa (2014)
Initial Placement at George Washington University
Committee: Kolev, Lerman, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Qiao Kapadia (2016)
Initial Placement at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Committee: Kolev, Lerman, Sunder (chair), Zhang

Robert Stoumbos (2017)
Initial Placement at Columbia University
Committee: Niessner, Sunder, Thomas (chair), Zhang

John Heater (2018)
Initial Placement at Duke University
Committee: Lerman, Sunder, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Stephanie Miller (2018)
Initial Placement at Quinnipiac University
Committee: Lerman, Steffen, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Qin Tan (2018)
Initial Placement at City University of Hong Kong
Committee: Kolev, Lerman, Steffen, Thomas (chair),

Erik Olson (2020)
Initial Placement at Vanderbilt University
Committee: Steffen, Sunder, Yeazell (chair), Zhang

Robert Bishop (2021)
Initial Placement at Duke Law
Committee: Morely, Steffen, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Ruiting Dai (2022)
Initial Placement at Drexel University
Committee: Duguay, Steffen, Thomas (chair), Zhang

David Kwon (2022)
Initial Placement at Aon
Committee: Huang, Spiegel, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Jinjie Lin (2022)
Initial Placement at Moody's Analytics
Committee: Shue, Steffen, Thomas (chair), Zhang

Current Students

Brett Campbell (email)
BS, Brigham Young University
MS, Brigham Young University

Ping Gong (email)
BCom, Accounting, University of New South Wales

Lucas C. Lee (email)
Master of Philosophy, Finance, University of Cambridge

Xiaoer Liu (email)
BBA, Accounting, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
MS, Finance, Oxford University

Tendai Masaya (email)
BS, Accounting, Ithaca College
MS, Accounting, University of Virginia

Cong Xiao (email)
Other Bachelor Level, Finance, Xiamen University
MS, Finance, Columbia University

Laiyi Yin (email)
BCom, Economics & Accounting, McGill University