Ph.D. Alumni
2024-2025
Katie Hillegass
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: US Army Enterprise Marketing Office
katiehillegass@gmail.com
2023-2024
Seung Hyun Kim
Ph.D., Management, Quantitative Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor in the Marketing Department at Northeastern University
se.kim@northeastern.edu
Jean Zhang
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI) at the National University of Singapore
jeanzh@nus.edu.sg
Xiaofeng Liu
Ph.D., Management, Innovation, Technology, and Operations Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Baruch College, City University of New York
Xiaofeng.Liu@baruch.cuny.edu
2022-2023
Ariel Fridman
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Marketing at ESADE Business School
ariel.fridman@rady.ucsd.edu
Junxiong Gao
Ph.D., Management, Finance Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
M.S., Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Xiaochen.Gao@rady.ucsd.edu
Xiaochen Gao
Ph.D., Management, Innovation, Technology, and Operations Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Junxiong.Gao@rady.ucsd.edu
Giulia Maimone
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Giulia.Maimone@rady.ucsd.edu
2021-2022
Jun Chen
Ph.D., Management, Finance Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
M.S., Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Jun.Chen@rady.ucsd.edu
Prabhanjan Didwania
Ph.D., Management, Quantitative Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Prabhanjan.didwania@rady.ucsd.edu
Yumeng Gu
Ph.D., Management, Management Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
B.S., Psychology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
Placement: Associate People Scientist at BetterUp.
Yumeng.gu@rady.ucsd.edu
Jessica Jumee Kim
Ph.D., Management, Quantitative Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University.
jessica.kim@unibocconi.it
2020-2021
Alicea Lieberman
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Ritong Qu
Ph.D., Management, Finance Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Yidan Yin
Ph.D., Management, Management Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar at the Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California.
Wanqun Zhao
Ph.D., Management, Economics and Strategy Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Economist at Amazon.
2019-2020
Youngjae Choi
Ph.D., Management, Finance Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics & Finance at the University of North Dakota.
Youngjae.Choi@rady.ucsd.edu
Austin M. Henderson
Ph.D., Management, Economics and Strategy Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health, Washington State University.
Austin.Henderson@rady.ucsd.edu
Min Zhang
Ph.D., Management, Management Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: People Research Scientist at Facebook.
Min.Zhang@rady.ucsd.edu
2018-2019
Kristen Duke
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing Research Area, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Kristen.Duke@rotman.utoronto.ca
2017-2018
Duy Dao
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Professor, University of Calgary, Haskayne School of Business.
Junghee Lee
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor in IT, Analytics, and Operations at Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.
Matthew Lupoli
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Management at Deakin University.
2016-2017
Leland E. Farmer
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Allan Timmermann (co-Chair of Committee) and Prof. Rossen Valkanov.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics — Department of Economics, University of Virginia.
Lakshminarayana Nittala
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, School of Business Administration, Department of Operations and Supply Management.
Yinchu Zhu
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor at Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon.
2015-2016
Wei Chen
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona.
Coby Morvinski
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Visiting scholar at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya of Arison School of Business.
Riccardo Sabbatucci
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics and a Research Fellow at the Swedish House of Finance.
Silvia Saccardo
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
2014-2015
Kanetaka Maki
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Research Associate with Stanford University Japan Program.
Elizabeth Keenan
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Lawrence David Warren Schmidt
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Allan Timmermann (Chair of Committee), Prof. Christopher Parsons, and Prof. Rossen Valkanov.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Economics and the College, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
2013-2014
Alex Imas
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Uri Gneezy (Chair of Committee), Prof. Ayelet Gneezy, and Prof. Yuval Rottenstreich.
Placement: Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
2010-2011
Alberto G. Rossi
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Allan Timmermann (Chair of Committee), Prof. Jun Liu, and Prof. Rossen Valkanov.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance, R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
2009-2010
Michael Ewens
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Jun Liu (Chair of Committee), Prof. Allan Timmermann, and Prof. Rossen Valkanov.
Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.
Benjamin J. Gillen
Ph.D., Economics, Department of Economics, UC San Diego
As a doctoral student, he worked with Rady Faculty: Prof. Allan Timmermann (Chair of Committee), Prof. Vincent Crawford, Prof. Harry Markowitz, and Prof. Rossen Valkanov.
Placement: Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Caltech.