Ph.D. Alumni

2026

Akhila Kovvuri

Field of Study: Development Economics, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Melanie Morten, Alessandra Voena, Nicholas Bloom Current Position: Vassar College

Bing Liu

Field of Study: Economic Theory, Mechanism Design, Market Design Advisor(s): Paul Milgrom, Ilya Segal, Ravi Jagadeesan, Alvin Roth Current Position: University of Queensland

Carl Meyer

Brendan Moore

Field of Study: Labor Economics, Public Economics Advisor(s): Isaac Sorkin, Nicholas Bloom, Alessandra Voena, Caroline Hoxby Current Position: University of Notre Dame

Field of Study: Microeconomic Theory, Political Economy, Organizational Economics Advisor(s): Steven Callander (Co-primary), Matthew O. Jackson (Co-primary), Avidit Acharya, Scott Gehlbach, Robert Gibbons Current Position: Post-Doc, Rochester Wallis Institute

Anirudh Sankar

Field of Study: Development Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics Advisor(s): Matthew Jackson (Primary), Arun Chandrasekhar (Primary), Melanie Morten, Matthew Gentzkow, Marcel Fafchamps Current Position: Academy Scholar, Harvard University

Marcelo Sena

Field of Study: Finance, Macroeconomics Advisor(s): Monika Piazzesi (Co-primary), Martin Schneider (Co-primary), Hanno Lustig Current Position: Postdoc, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management

Ellie Tyger

Field of Study: Theory, Market Design Advisor(s): Mohammad Akbarpour, Alvin Roth

Jason Weitze

Field of Study: Econometrics Advisor(s): Guido Imbens, Jann Spiess, Alessandra Voena Current Position: Uber

2025

Shifrah Aron-Dine

Field of Study: Macroeconomics, Finance, Environmental Economics Advisor(s): Monika Piazzesi (Co-primary), Martin Schneider (Co-primary), Melanie Morten, Chris Tonetti Current Position: University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Maxim Bakhtin

Field of Study: Behavioral Economics, Theory Current Position: Analysis Group

Matthew Brown

Field of Study: Public Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Advisor(s): Matthew Gentzkow, Hunt Allcott, B. Douglas Bernheim Current Position: Assistant Professor of Instruction, University of Chicago

Ian Calaway

Field of Study: Public Economics, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Caroline Hoxby, Isaac Sorkin, Nicholas Bloom Current Position: DePaul University

Harsh Gupta

Field of Study: Industrial Organization, Health Economics Advisor(s): Matthew Gentzkow (Co-primary), Heidi Williams (Co-primary), Arun Chandrasekhar, Jose Ignacio Cuesta, Liran Einav Current Position: London School of Economics

Lily Liu

Field of Study: Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Muriel Niederle (Co-primary), Alessandra Voena (Co-primary), B. Douglas Bernheim, Arun Chandrasekhar Current Position: NERA

Cedomir Malgieri

Field of Study: Macroeconomics Advisor(s): Luigi Bocola (Co-primary), Patrick Kehoe (Co-primary), Adrien Auclert, Elena Pastorino, Christopher Tonetti Current Position: Arizona State University

Marshall Mo

Field of Study: Economic History, Macroeconomics, Development Economics Advisor(s): Ran Abramitzky (Co-Primary), Pete Klenow (Co-Primary), B. Douglas Bernheim Current Position: Amazon

Lea Nagel

Field of Study: Theory, Market Design, Behavioral and Experimental Advisor(s): Paul Milgrom (Co-primary), Muriel Niederle (Co-primary), Mohammad Akbarpour, B. Douglas Bernheim, Ravi Jagadeesan Current Position: Harvard University, Department of Economics

Caylee O'Connor

Field of Study: Development Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics Advisor(s): Caroline Hoxby (Co-primary), Melanie Morten (Co-primary), Nicholas Bloom Current Position: Economist at Burning Glass Institute

Emma Rockall

Field of Study: Macroeconomics, Labor Economics Current Position: IMF