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Recent Graduates and Current Students

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

Financial Economics Graduates

Canyao Liu (2022)
Hudson River Trading		 Kevin Zhao (2021)
Office of Financial Research
Natee Amornsiripanitch (2021)
Federal Reserve Bank		 Thomas Bonczek (2021)
Master Works
Steven Fortney (2021)
Uber		 Chase P. Ross (2021)
Federal Reserve Board
Sharon Y. Ross (2021)
Office of Financial Research		 Avner Langut (2020)
Cornerstone Research
Chen Wang (2020)
University of Notre Dame		 Yifan Zhu (2020)
Security and Exchange Commission
Toomas Laarits (2019)
Initial Placement at New York University-Stern		 Ben Matthies (2019)
Initial Placement at University of Notre Dame
Arun Gupta (2019)
Initial Placement at Federal Reserve Board, New York City		 Cameron Peng (2018)
Initial Placement at London School of Economics
Kyriakos Chousakos (2018)
Initial Placement at Bank of America, Merrill Lynch		 Jun Wu (2018)
Initial Placement at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Garence Staraci (2018)
Initial Placement at AQR Capital Management		 Andrew Sinclair (2017)
Initial Placement at University of Hong Kong
Steven Malliaris (2016)
Initial Placement at University of Georgia		 Sean Hundtofte (2016)
Initial Placement at Federal Reserve Bank, New York City
Wenxi Jiang (2015)
Initial Placement at Chinese University of Hong Kong		 Sriya Anbil (2015)
Initial Placement at Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.
Peter Kelly (2015)
Initial Placement at University of Notre Dame		 Lawrence (Jiaqi) Jin (2015)
Initial Placement at California Institute of Technology
Stephen Karolyi (2014)
Initial Placement at Carnegie Mellon University		 Simon Huang (2014)
Initial Placement at Southern Methodist University
Cecil Wang (2014)
Initial Placement at Citigroup		 Lei Xie (2013)
Initial Placement at AQR Capital Management
Stefan Lewellen (2013)
Initial Placement at London Business School		 Jinfan Zhang (2013)
Initial Placement at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Jacqueline Yen (2013)
Initial Placement at Federal Reserve Bank, New York City		 Philip Ostromogolsky (2012)
Initial Placement at Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Dasol Kim (2011)
Initial Placement at Case Western Reserve University		 Roy Zuckerman (2010)
Initial Placement at Rutgers University
Bjorn Johnson (2010)
Initial Placement at DePaul University		 Dong Lou (2009)
Initial Placement at London School of Economics
Darwin Choi (2009)
Initial Placement at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology		 Ankur Pareek (2009)
Initial Placement at Rutgers University
Denis Sosyura (2008)
Initial Placement at University of Michigan		 Vicente Pons-Sanz (2008)
Initial Placement at Citigroup, London
Steven Jordan (2006)
Initial Placement at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology		 Ming Fang (2006)
Initial Placement at Asset Management Corp.
Yijie Zhang (2006)
Initial Placement at Arrowstreet Capital		 Deniz Yavuz (2006)
Initial Placement at Arizona State University
Xiaotong Wang (2006)
Initial Placement at Penn State University		 Johan Walden (2005)
Initial Placement at University of California-Berkeley
Jin Liu (2004)
Initial Placement at Lehman Brothers		 Gerard Hoberg (2004)
Initial Placement at University of Maryland
Hong Zhang (2004)
Initial Placement at INSEAD-Singapore		 Yuewu Xu (2004)
Initial Placement at TIAA-CREF
Masahiro Watanabe (2003)
Initial Placement at Rice University		 Andrey Ukhov (2003)
Initial Placement at University of Indiana-Bloomington
Ning Zhu (2003)
Initial Placement at University of California-Davis		 Zoran Ivkovich (2001)
Initial Placement at University of Illinois
Evan Gatev (2001)
Initial Placement at Boston College		 Subhankar Nayak (2001)
Initial Placement at Georgia Tech
Cheekiat Low (2000)
Initial Placement at National University of Singapore		 Lu Zheng (1999)
Initial Placement at University of Michigan
Charles (Xongxin) Wang (1999)
Initial Placement at Aetus Investment Management		 Boleslav Gulko (1998)
Initial Placement at General Reinsurance Corp.
Yan Fan (1998)
Initial Placement at Goldman Sachs		 Massimo Massa (1998)
Initial Placement at INSEAD
Haitao Li (1998)
Initial Placement at Cornell University		 Maria Ignatiadou (1998)
Initial Placement at Credit Suisse First Boston
Mingsung Tang (1996)
Initial Placement at Fordham University		 Jingxi Liu (1996)
Initial Placement at Capital Market Risk Advisors
David Quinn (1995) Kyle Kashima (1993)
Initial Placement at Cornerstone Research
Torben Andersen (1992)
Initial Placement at Northwestern University		 Hans-Jurgen Knoch (1991)
Initial Placement at J.P. Morgan Stanley
Zhiwu Chen (1990)
Initial Placement at University of Wisconsin, Madison		 Jonathan Berk (1990)
Initial Placement at University of British Columbia
William Goetzmann (1990)
Initial Placement at Columbia University		 Steven Feinstein (1989)
Initial Placement at Boston University
Jaime Zender (1988)
Initial Placement at University of Utah		 Buhmsoo Choi (1988)
Initial Placement at Korea Development Institute, South Korea
Anant Sundaram (1987)
Initial Placement at Dartmouth College		 Yashushi Hamao (1987)
Initial Placement at University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Tiemann (1986)
Initial Placement at Harvard University		  

Law/Financial Economics Joint Degree Graduates

Quinn Curtis (2011)
Initial Placement at University of Virginia

Ofer Eldar (2016)
Duke University

Adriana Robertson (2017)
University of Toronto

Rahul Goravara (2021)
Cornerstone Research

Current Students

Joseph Leland Bybee (email)
MS, Statistics, University of Michigan
BA, Economics, University of Chicago

Xugan Chen (email)
BS, Mathematics, Zhejiang University

Abhishek Dev (email)
BS, Finance, Bard College

Tania Diaz-Bazan (email)
MS, Economics, Universidad de La Plata
BA, Economics, Universidad Catolica de Cuyo

Ben Gardner (email)
BS, Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University

Pranav Garg (email)
MS, Economics, Paris School of Economics
BA, Economics, University of Delhi

Leandro de Miranda Gomes (email)
MS, Economics, Pontificia U Catolica Rio De Janeiro
BS, Economics, State University of Santa Catarina

Weiting Hong (email)
MA, Economics, Columbia University
BS, Finance, New York University

Allen (An) Hu (email)
BE, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

Daniel (Zongsheng) Huang (email)
Bachelors, Economics,Tsinghua University
MS, Finance, University of Chicago

Dong Huang (email)
Masters, Finance, Tsinghua University
BS, Economics and Mathematics, Tsinghua University

Kwon Yong Jin (email)
JD, Law, Yale Law School
BA, Economics, Harvard University

Barry Shikun Ke (email)
BS, Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Pengcheng Liu (email)
MS, Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong
BS, Finance, Renmin University of China

Tianshu Lyu (email)
MS, Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, New York University Shanghai

Jamil Abdur Rahman (email)
BA, Economics, Cornell University

Haley Ru (email)
BA, Economics, University of Hong Kong

Tudor-David Schlanger (email)
BA, International & Developmental Economics, University of British Columbia

Paul Schmidt-Engelbertz (email)
BA, Economics, Oxford University

Kaushik Vasudevan (email)
BA, Statistics, University of Chicago

Yi Wang (email)
Bachelors, Finance, Wuhan University
MS, Finance, New York University

Yiyuan Wang (email)
BA, Finance, Tsinghua University

Hongyu Wu (email)
BBA, Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
MA, Mathematics, Columbia University

Nicholas Wuthenow Anglarill (email)
BS, Economics, Ludwig Maximilians University

Yingxuan Yang (email)
BA, Economics, Nankai University
MS, Economics, London School of Economics

Dolly (Yang) Yu (email)
BS, Economics, University of Toronto
MA, Economics, Yale University

Daojing Zhai (email)
BS, Physics, Nanjing University

Kangying Zhou (email)
MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
BS, Economics, Huazhong University of Science