Job placements & For hire: Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Management
Graduate students of the SC Johnson College of Business in Applied Economics and Management are actively recruited by U.S. and foreign universities for academic positions. They also hold high-profile positions in state and federal government agencies, international agencies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, and at leading companies in the private and not-for-profit sectors.
Ph.D. students
Currently for hire
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Apurva Borar
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Bingyan Dai
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Luc Esprabens
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Nicholas Grandstaff
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Yurou He
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Alan Hinds
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Jerzy Jaromczyk
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Vrinda Kapoor
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Emil Kee-Tui
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Xueyun Luo
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Yuma Noritomo
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Anthony Ponce
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Kasim Saiyyad
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Lakshita Sharma
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Jayen Tan
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Yunran Wang
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Motoyuki Yoshihara
PhD Student, Dyson
Alumni for hire
| Name | Current position | Organization | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarana Chauhan | Visiting Assistant Professor | Colgate University | Personal website |
| Seungmin Lee | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Pulte Institute for Global Development, University of Notre Dame | Personal website |
Recent job placements
| Year | Name | Position | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Trevor Dean Arnold | Postdoc | University of Calgary Department of Economics |
| 2026 | Molly Jane Doruska | Assistant Professor | Clarkson University |
| 2026 | Sijia Fan | Assistant Professor of Finance | University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management |
| 2026 | Adrian Haws | Postdoc | Norwegian School of Economics |
| 2026 | Jihye Jang | Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance | Texas Christian University (TCU) |
| 2026 | Elena Krasovskaia | Assistant Teaching Professor | North Carolina State University |
| 2026 | Tess Lallemant | Postdoc | Stanford King Center |
| 2026 | Dingyi Li | Assistant Professor | Renmin University of China |
| 2026 | Changlun Lin | Model Validation and Assurance Analyst I | Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, KS |
| 2026 | Antonia Stefanova Marcheva | Postdoc | Paris School of Economics |
| 2026 | Sumedha Minocha | Post-doctoral associate | Tata-Cornell Institute at Cornell University |
| 2026 | Anjali Narang | Data Scientist | Office of Evaluation Sciences, General Services Administration |
| 2026 | Matias Navarro | Associate | Econic Partners LLC |
| 2026 | Benjamin Prescott Norton | Economist | Stout |
| 2026 | Haokun Sun | Assistant Professor of Finance | University of New South Wales in Sydney |
| 2026 | Hongdi Zhao | Associate | The Analysis Group |
| 2026 | Jason Jianqiang Zhao | Lecturer | Lincoln University in New Zealand |
| 2025 | Sharan Banerjee | Postdoctoral Fellow | KAPSARC School of Public Policy, Riyadh |
| 2025 | Tsenguunjav Byambasuren | Assistant Professor of Economics | Trinity College Dublin Department of Economics |
| 2025 | Feng Chi | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2025 | Xiaoying Liu | Principal Quantitative Modeler | Capital One |
| 2025 | Michael Meneses | Postdoctoral Associate | Yale School of the Environment |
| 2025 | Anh Nguyen | Lecturer | International University – VNUHCM |
| 2025 | Shree Saha | Global Agriculture Division, World Bank | World Bank, Young Professionals Program |
| 2025 | Weiliang Tan | Postdoctoral Associate; Assistant Professor of Economics | National Bureau of Economic Research, Claremont McKenna College |
| 2025 | Tong Wu | Research Scientist in Natural Resource Economics | Natural Resources Institute Finland |
| 2025 | Minhao Yan | Research Data Scientist | Freddie Mac |
| 2024 | Leonel Borja | Economist | InterAmerican Development Bank |
| 2024 | Tarana Chauhan | Post-doc | Brown |
| 2024 | Huiyi Chen | Assistant Professor | James Madison |
| 2024 | Seungmin Lee | Post-doc | Notre Dame |
| 2024 | Mengwei Lin | Managing Economist | Berkeley Research Group |
| 2024 | Yiding Ma | post-doc | DTUM |
| 2024 | Daniel Maggio | Assistant Professor | Rutgers |
| 2024 | Anna Malinovskaya | Post-doc | Princeton University |
| 2024 | Trinh Pham | Assistant Professor | KDI School of Public Policy and Management (Korea) |
| 2024 | Sergio Puerto | Post-doc | Cornell University |
| 2024 | Vanisha Sharma | Post-doc | University of Washington |
| 2024 | Dana Smith | Assistant Professor | Holy Cross |
| 2024 | Binglin Wang | Assistant Professor | NUS |
| 2024 | Saleh Zakerinia | Post-doc | Harvard Digital Value Lab |
| 2023 | Zhiyun Li | Economist | UCLA Anderson Forecast |
| 2023 | Zhengyuan Wu | Senior Data Scientist | Citibank |
| 2023 | Ye Xian | Quantitative Researcher | Acadian Asset Management |
| 2023 | Muxi Yang | Economist | Bates White Economic Consulting |
| 2023 | Hui Zhou | Assistant Professor | University of Rhode Island, Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
| 2022 | Ruyu Chen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence |
| 2022 | Tung Dang | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Sydney, School of Economics |
| 2022 | Deyu Rao | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Economics |
| 2022 | Louis Sears | Economist | U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program |
| 2022 | Steve Wilcox | Assistant Professor | Utah State University, Department of Applied Economics |
| 2022 | Yolanda Xue | Applied Scientist II, Core Analytics and Sciences Team | Uber |
| 2021 | Ali Abbas | Economist | International Monetary Fund |
| 2021 | Anne Byrne | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2021 | Vidya Bharathi Rajkumar | Assistant Professor | Krea University |
| 2021 | Diego S. Cardoso | Assistant Professor | Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics |
| 2021 | Yuanning Liang | Assistant Professor | Peking University |
| 2021 | Shuyang Si | Assistant Professor | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
| 2021 | Joy Wu | Postdoctoral Researcher | Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich |
| 2021 | Lin Yang | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| 2021 | Youwei Yang | Director of Financial Analytics | StoneX Group |
| 2021 | D. Adeline Yeh | Research Agricultural Economist | USDA Economic Research Service |
| 2020 | Chia Hua Lin | Postdoctoral Associate | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2020 | Margaret Jodlowski | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| 2020 | Christina Korting | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Matthew McGranaghan | Assistant Professor | University of Delaware |
| 2020 | Avralt-Od Purevjav | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Bern |
| 2020 | Armand Sim | Research Fellow | Monash University |
| 2020 | Shiuli Vanaja | Assistant Professor | Azim Premji University |
| 2019 | Xin Gao | Associate | Analysis Group |
| 2019 | Maulik Jagnani | Postdoctoral Associate | Yale University |
| 2019 | Rhiannon Jerch | Assistant Professor | Temple University |
| 2019 | Seolle Park | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University |
| 2019 | Jing Qian | Risk Management Associate | Morgan Stanley |
| 2019 | Vidya Vemireddy | Assistant Professor | IIMA |
| 2018 | Jakina Debnam | Assistant Professor of Economics | Amherst College |
| 2018 | Ryan Finseth | Economist/Air Quality Specialist | California State Government, South Coast Air Quality Management District |
| 2018 | Oleg Firsin | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 2018 | Juan Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera | Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellow | The Earth Institute, Columbia University |
| 2018 | Erwin Knippenberg | Lead Economist | Cooper/Smith |
| 2018 | Yanan Li | Assistant Professor of Economics | Beijing Normal University |
| 2018 | Linden McBride | Assistant Professor of Economics | St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
| 2018 | David Murphy | Assistant Professor of Economics | University of Evansville, Schroeder School of Business |
| 2018 | Steven Otto | Economist | ISO New England |
| 2018 | Kai Wu | Assistant Professor of Finance | Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing) |
| 2018 | Jianwei Xing | Assistant Professor | Peking University (Beijing) |
| 2017 | Jennifer Cisse | Senior Risk Advisor | USAID |
| 2017 | Xiaoli Fan | Assistant Professor | University of Alberta, Canada |
| 2017 | Jie Li | Research Associate | Cornell University, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management |
| 2017 | Ellen McCullough | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics |
| 2017 | Tanvi Rao | Research Associate | IMPAQ International |
| 2017 | Yiwei Wang | Data Analyst | Center for Governmental Research |
| 2017 | Di Wu | Principal Consultant | Edgeworth Economics |
| 2016 | Leah Bevis | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics |
| 2016 | Justin Choe | Economist | U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Global Commodity Analysis Division, Office of Global Analysis, Foreign Agricultural Service |
| 2016 | Soumya Gupta | Post Doctoral Fellow | Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative |
| 2016 | Richard Klotz | Assistant Professor | Colgate University, Department of Economics |
| 2016 | Andrew Simons | Assistant Professor | Fordham University, Department of Economics |
| 2016 | Vidhya Soundararajan | Assistant Professor, Economics and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| 2016 | Nadia Streletskaya | Assistant Professor | Oregon State University, Applied Economics Department |
| 2016 | Andrew Waxman | Assistant Professor | Arizona State University, School of Public Affairs |
| 2015 | Dennis Becker | Associate | Dean & Company |
| 2015 | Samuel Bell | Co-Founder & CEO | Vitalite Zambia Limited |
| 2015 | Julia Berazneva | Assistant Professor | Middlebury College |
| 2015 | Teevrat Garg | Assistant Professor | University of California, San Diego |
| 2015 | Hao Lu | Senior Quantitative Analyst | Pacific Gas & Electric Company |
| 2015 | Pimbucha Rusmevichientong | Assistant Professor | California State University |
| 2015 | Parul Sharma | Financial Economist | U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 2015 | Lin Sun | AVP Risk Management | Industrial and Commercial Bank of China |
| 2015 | Joanna Upton | Post-Doctoral Associate | Dyson School, Cornell University |
| 2015 | Jubo Yan | Assistant Professor | Nanyang Technological University |