I have been privileged to work with an amazing group of students and research assistants over the years.
Doctoral student advisees
Graduation year, name, role, first placement
| Ongoing | Dong Huang (committee chair) Pengcheng Liu (committee chair) Belisa Pang (committee chair) Dolly Yu (committee chair) Tania Diaz-Bazan (committee member) |
| 2022 | Canyao Liu (committee member), Hudson River Trading (HRT) |
| 2021 | Kevin Zhao (committee member), Office of Financial Research |
| 2020 | Natalie Zhu (committee member), Edelman Financial Engines |
| 2019 | Taha Choukhmane (committee chair), MIT Ben Matthies (committee member), Notre Dame |
| 2018 | Cameron Peng (committee member), London School of Economics |
| 2016 | Sean Hundtofte (committee member), New York Fed |
| 2012 | Christopher Fiore (committee member), Compass Lexecon |
| 2010 | Bjorn Johnson (committee member), DePaul University |
| 2009 | Usman Ali (committee member), Falcon Investment Management |
Full-time predoctoral research assistants
Final year of employment, name, first placement
| 2024 | Santiago Medina Pizarro, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| 2023 | Jordan Cammarota, Berkeley economics Ph.D. |
| 2022 | Seung Hyeong Lee, Northwestern economics Ph.D. Jessica Brooks, Montrose School, math teacher |
| 2021 | Harry Kosowsky, NYU Stern economics Ph.D. |
| 2020 | Sachet Bangia, Harvard public policy Ph.D. Justin Katz, Harvard business economics Ph.D. Kartik Vira, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2019 | Ross Chu, Berkeley economics Ph.D. Lea Nagel, Stanford economics Ph.D. |
| 2018 | Edward Kong, Harvard M.D./economics Ph.D. Omeed Maghzian, Harvard economics Ph.D. Charlie Rafkin, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2017 | Jonathan Cohen, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2016 | Peter Maxted, Harvard economics Ph.D Sean Wang, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2015 | Joshua Hurwitz, Harvard economics Ph.D. Layne Kirshon, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2014 | Christopher Clayton, Harvard economics Ph.D. Colin Gray, MIT economics Ph.D. Alexandra Steiny Wellsjo, Berkeley economics Ph.D. |
| 2013 | Andrew Chong, PicWell, data analyst Daniel Norris, Percolate, software engineer Michael Puempel, Yale economics Ph.D. |
| 2012 | Luca Maini, Harvard economics Ph.D. Jung Sakong, University of Chicago Booth economics Ph.D. |
| 2011 | John Klopfer, Princeton economics Ph.D. Brendan Price, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| 2010 | Yeguang Chi, University of Chicago Booth financial economics Ph.D. Ben Hebert, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| 2009 | Eric Zwick, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| 2008 | Christina Jenq, University of Chicago Booth economics Ph.D. |
| 2007 | Gabriel Carroll, MIT economics Ph.D. Ian Dew-Becker, Harvard economics Ph.D. Neel Rao, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| 2006 | David Borden, Goldman Sachs, associate Ananya Chakravarti, University of Chicago history Ph.D. Keith Marzilli Ericson, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| 2005 | Hongyi Li, Harvard business economics Ph.D. Chris Nosko, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| 2004 | Carlos Caro, Columbia economics Ph.D. Jean Lee, Harvard economics Ph.D. Holly Ming, Harvard public policy Ph.D. Laura Serban, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| 2003 | Nelson Uhan, MIT operations research Ph.D. |
| 2002 | Lucia Chung, MIT Sloan MBA |
Undergraduate research assistants
List only includes those who went on to a doctoral program
| John Beshears, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| Kyle Chauvin, Princeton economics Ph.D. |
| John Friedman, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| Jay Garg, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| Irene Guo, Northwestern Kellogg managerial economics and strategy Ph.D. |
| Shih En Lu, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| Parag Pathak, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| Janelle Schlossberger, Harvard business economics Ph.D. |
| Raphael Schoenle, Princeton economics Ph.D. |
| Kelly Shue, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| Dmitry Taubinsky, Harvard economics Ph.D. |
| Vod Vilfort, MIT economics Ph.D. |
| Brian Weller, University of Chicago financial economics Ph.D. |