Current & Former Students

Current PhD Students

Chair/co-Chair

Patrick Szurkowksi (expected graduation May 2026)

Past students

Students I chaired/co-chaired:

2024-25

Daniel Banko-Ferran (Post-Doc at Georgetown University)

Guillermo Lezama (Amazon)

Dor Morag (Charlotte Hornets, Senior Data Scientist)

Jian Qi Tan (Hamilton College) 

2023-24

Taylor Weidman (University of Pittsburgh)

2022-23

Sierra Arnold (Xavier University) 

2021-22

Kelly Hyde (PhD, 2022, Rand)

2019-20

Tianyi Wang (PhD, 2020, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto - post-doc at Princeton 2021-22, post-doc at the University of Copenaghen 2020-21) 

2018-19

Jakub Lonsky (PhD, 2019, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of  Edinburgh 2024- (previously Lecturer at Liverpool 2020-2024 and - postdoc at the University of Oxford 2019-2020) 

Member of Dissertation Committee

Greg Scala

Joung Yehob Ha Hanyang University

Neal Silveus (Hope College, May 23)

Juan Campanario (PhD, May 23)

Ying Liu PhD, 2022, Post-Doc at Simon Fraser University)

Pun Winachakul (Assistant Professor, Smith College)

Yuri Podvysotskiy (PhD, 2021, Economist at Amazon Web Services) 

Mallory Avery : (graduation, June 2020)  current placement: post-doc at Monash University

Sijie Li: (graduation, April 2019) current placement: Freddie-Mac. 

Quanquan Liu: (graduation, November 2020)  current placement:  Department of Agricultural Economics at University of Florida (Lecturer). 

At the University of Oxford

Y-Ling Chi (World Bank, 2016, now at the Center for Global Development)