Placements of Graduates

The Rochester economics program has produced many intellectual leaders of this generation. Rochester graduates are found on the faculties of a wide range of institutions and industries.

In the last twenty years, we have placed our PhD's at many top schools, including Northwestern University, Cal Tech, Wisconsin, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, NYU, as well as other universities and colleges throughout the world.

2023 Placements

  • Lorenz Eckerdt - Census Bureau
  • Naoki Fujiwara - Corvinus University
  • Jeremy Kettering - Alvernia University
  • Armen Khederlarian - CUNY-Hunter
  • Kenwin Maung - Rutgers University
  • Alexis Orellana - Northwestern University
  • Geunyong Park - National University of Singapore
  • Xiaomei Sui - University of Hong Kong
  • Yajie Wang - University of Missouri
  • Soo Kyung Woo - Sejong University
  • Kai-Jie Wu - Penn State University

2022 Placements

  • Min Fang - University of Florida
  • Eduardo Garcia - STATA
  • Stepan Gordeev - University of Connecticut, post doc
  • Josh Hollinger - Dordt University
  • Hyun Yeol Kim - The Korea Institute of Finance 
  • Kaixin Liu - Jinan University IESR
  • Roman Merga - IMF
  • Tianchen Song - Chase
  • Jose Villegas - Ghent University, post doc

2021 Placements

  • Jihwan Do - Wuhan University
  • Min Fang - HEC Lausanne, post doc
  • Victor Hernandez Martinez - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
  • Zibin Huang - Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
  • Chen Kan - Jinan University 
  • Armen Khederlarian - University of Connecticut, post doc
  • Alexis Orellana - Boston University, post doc
  • Yuki Tamura - New York University Abu Dhabi, post doc

2020 Placements

  • Oscar Avila Montealegre - Central Bank of Colombia
  • Vyacheslav Arbuzov - Corvinus University, post doc
  • Minjie Deng - Simon Fraser University
  • Shafaat Khan - World Bank, Research Hub (Kuala Lumpur)

2019 Placements

  • Vi Cao - Sichuan University, post doc
  • Richard DiSalvo - Princeton University, post doc in public policy
  • Hyuntae Kim - Korea Institute of Finance
  • Eunmi Ko - Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Zizhen Ma - Wuhan University
  • Carter Mix - Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Lucas Pahl - University of New South Wales, post doc
  • Nicolas Riquelme - University of Los Andes
  • Viviane Sanfelice - Temple University

2018 Placements

  • Acelya Altuntas - Deakin University
  • Andrew Baynes - Canisius College
  • Alon Bergman - University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, post doc
  • Doruk Cetemen - Collegio Carlo Alberto
  • Gabriel Mihalache - SUNY Stony Brook
  • Hao Teng - San Diego State University

2017 Placements

  • Corina Boar - New York University
  • Umair Khalil - University of Adelaide
  • Andrew McKenzie - Maastricht
  • Ana Nadais - Deloitte
  • Yangwei Song - University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Ryan Tierney - University of Southern Denmark

2016 Placements

  • Laura Desplans  - Deutsche Bank
  • Patrick Harless - University of Glasgow
  • Bingchoa Huangfu - Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
  • Matthew Knowles - University of Leicester
  • Gabriel Mihalache - Stony Brook University (Visiting)
  • David Slichter - Binghamton University
  • Xu Tian - University of Toronto
  • Jinhee Woo - Korea Institute of Public Finance

2015 Placements

  • Tuo Deng - State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China
  • Olamide Harrison - IMF
  • Liquan Huang - Amazon
  • Taejun Lim - Korea Insurance Research Institute
  • Heng Liu - University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
  • Umair Khalil - University of West Virginia (visiting)
  • Sulagna Mookerjee - Georgetown University at Qatar
  • Choonsung Park - Korea Institute of Finance
  • Will Phan - University of Helsinki (post doctoral fellow)
  • Tiago Tavares - ITAM
  • Ryan Tierney - Université de Montréal (post doctoral fellow)
  • Yicheng Wang - University of Oslo

2014 Placements

  • Robert Arons - Department of Justice
  • Andrew Davis - Acadia University
  • Battal Doğan - HEC Lausanne, postdoc.
  • Lin Liu - University of Liverpool
  • Daniel Ringo - Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  • Kristof Zetenyi - Analysis Group