Job Market and Placements
As a prospective doctoral candidate at the Tepper School of Business, future placements in the job market are an important part of your experience.
After passing through the milestones of the Ph.D. program — including our rigorous course work, summer research papers and teaching assignments — you will be on your way to becoming a research scholar.
As part of our program, we help top universities and companies interested in recruiting our Ph.D. students by providing background information on job placements.
Initial Placements of Ph.D. Graduates
Explore initial job placements by area of study.
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Lufei | Ruan | San Francisco State University |
| 2016 | Ronghuo | Zheng | University of Texas, Austin |
| 2016 | Tae Wook (Ryan) | Kim | University of Hong Kong |
| 2017 | Eun Hee | Kim | City University of Hong Kong |
| 2019 | Hyun | Hwang | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2019 | Nam | Ho | Brock University |
| 2019 | Phong | Truong | Penn State University |
| 2019 | Wenjie | Xue | National University of Singapore |
| 2020 | Guoyu | Lin | Clarkson University |
| 2021 | Zhaoru (Aluna) | Wang | HEC Paris |
| 2022 | Sang | Wu | Columbia Business School |
| 2024 | Yin (Lavender) | Yang | Harvard University (post-doc) |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2021 | Joachim | Talloen | McKinsey |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2019 | Shunyuan | Zhang | Harvard University |
| 2024 | Qiaochu | Wang | New York University |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2017 | Melanie | Zaber | RAND |
| 2019 | Leah | Clark | US Census Bureau |
| 2022 | Shan (Ashlee) | Li | Georgia Tech |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Majid | Bazarbash | Carnegie Mellon University (post-doc) |
| 2016 | Musab | Kurnaz | Koç University |
| 2017 | Aaron | Barkley | University of Melbourne |
| 2017 | Maxime | Roy | Department of the Treasury - OCC |
| 2018 | Benjamin | Tengelsen | Wayfair.com |
| 2018 | Erica | Vansant | Analysis Group (Boston) |
| 2019 | Eungsik | Kim | University of Kansas |
| 2019 | Minyoung | Rho | Universtat Autonoma de Barcelona (post-doc) |
| 2020 | Chi (Faith) | Feng | Wayfair |
| 2020 | Hakki | Ozdenoren | Sabanci University |
| 2020 | Jiayi | Li | Amazon |
| 2020 | Kole | Reddig | West Virginia University |
| 2020 | Nicholas | Pretnar | University of California, Santa Barbara (post-doc) |
| 2020 | Wenting | Yu | Amazon |
| 2021 | Ali | Polat | Warner Music Group |
| 2021 | Caroline | Hopkins | FHFA (Division of Research and Statistics) |
| 2021 | Mauro | Moretto | Freddice Mac |
| 2021 | William | Bednar | Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (US Treasury) |
| 2022 | Andre | Mouton | Wake Forest University |
| 2022 | Timothy | Hyde | Univ. of Pennsylvania (Annenberg) |
| 2022 | Xuege | Zhang | International Monetary Fund |
| 2023 | Majid | Mahzoon | University of Central Florida |
| 2025 | Nicholas | Hoffman | US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation |
| 2025 | Jaepil | Lee | Korea Institute of International Economic Policy |
| 2025 | Martin | Michelini | Capital One |
| 2025 | Pei | Xue | TikTok |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Alexander | Schiller | Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 2016 | Carlos | Ramirez Correa | Federal Reserve Board |
| 2016 | Cedric | Ehouarne | Bank of America |
| 2016 | Lili | Gao | AQR Capital |
| 2016 | Nan | Xiong | SAIF, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| 2017 | Camilo | Botia | Deloitte & Touche |
| 2018 | Atanu | Paul | ITAM (Mexico) |
| 2018 | Emilio | Bisetti | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
| 2019 | Siyu (Eric) | Lu | Cornerstone Research |
| 2020 | Tianyi (Robert) | Yang | Theorem |
| 2020 | Vitaly | Merso | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
| 2021 | Jackson | Pfeiffer | Bank of New York Mellon |
| 2022 | Diana | Mikhail | Brattle Group, Washington, DC |
| 2022 | Jueheng | Zhu | Stevens Capital Management |
| 2022 | Rachel | Szymanski | Bank of America |
| 2022 | Santiago | Tellez | Goldman Sachs (Global Investment Research Grp) |
| 2025 | Kevin | Mott | Rotman School, University of Toronto |
| 2026 | Xiaonan | Hong | Cornerstone Research |
| 2026 | Kerry | Zhang | Insight Investment |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2017 | Francisco | Cisternas | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2017 | Pak Yan (Patrick) | Choi | Bocconi University |
| 2019 | Julian | Givi | West Virginia University |
| 2019 | Zijun | Shi | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
| 2020 | Colleen | Giblin | LeMoyne College |
| 2020 | Yijin | Kim | LG CNS |
| 2023 | Jinwoo | Kim | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| 2023 | Serim | Hwang | Sungkyunkwan University |
| 2024 | Samuel | Levy | University of Virginia |
| 2025 | Xiaohang (Flora) | Feng | City University of Hong Kong |
| 2025 | Behnam | Mohammadi | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Sherwin | Doroudi | University of Minnesota |
| 2016 | Xin | Wang | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
| 2016 | Ying | Xu | Singapore University of Technology & Design |
| 2018 | Leela | Nageswaran | Foster School of Business, U. of Washington |
| 2019 | Siddharth | Singh | University College, London |
| 2021 | Franco | Berbeglia | Purdue University |
| 2021 | Mehmet | Aydemir | CNA Corporation |
| 2022 | Bo | Yang | Columbia University (IEOR) |
| 2022 | Neda | Mirzaeian | University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2023 | Musa Eren | Celdir | United Airlines |
| 2024 | Yanhan (Savannah) | Tang | Southern Methodist University |
| 2026 | Neha | JPMorganChase |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Sercan | Yildiz | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (post-doc) |
| 2017 | Jeremy | Karp | Lyft |
| 2018 | Aleksandr | Kazachkov | Polytechnique Montreal (post-doc) |
| 2018 | Christian | Tjandraatmadja | |
| 2018 | Stylianos | Despotakis | City University of Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Thiago | Serra | Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) |
| 2018 | Yang | Jiao | Boeing |
| 2019 | Dabeen | Lee | KAIST |
| 2019 | Gerdus | Benade | Boston University |
| 2019 | Nam | Ho-Nguyen | University of Sydney |
| 2019 | Ryo | Kimura | Wayfair.com |
| 2020 | Amin | Hosseininasab | University of Florida |
| 2020 | Arash | Haddadan | University of Virginia (post-doc) |
| 2021 | Ziye | Tang | Huawei |
| 2022 | Jingyi (Kyra) | Gan | Harvard University (post-doc) |
| 2022 | Su | Jia | Cornell University |
| 2022 | Thomas | Lavastida | University of Texas at Dallas |
| 2022 | Xinying (Violet) | Chen | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| 2022 | Yuyan | Wang | |
| 2022 | Zeynep Melda | Korkut | Amazon |
| 2023 | Rudy | Zhou | Carnegie Mellon (post-doc) |
| 2024 | Daniel | De Roux | |
| 2024 | Michael (Mik) | Zlatin | Weizmann Institute (post-doc) |
| 2026 | Lin | An | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2026 | Lingqing | Shen | Hitachi America Ltd. |
| 2026 | Weizhong | Zhang | Amazon |
| Graduation Year | First Name | Last Name | Hiring Institution / Company |
| 2016 | Courtney | Williamson | AbiliLife |
| 2016 | Jonathan | Kush | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth |
| 2016 | Lily | Morse | Notre Dame University (post-doc) |
| 2017 | Amanda | Weirup | Babson College |
| 2017 | Erin | Fahrenkopf | Stanford University (post-doc) |
| 2017 | Evelyn Ying | Zhang | Rotman School, University of Toronto (post-doc) |
| 2018 | Yeonjeong | Kim | MIT (post-doc) |
| 2019 | Anna | Mayo | Johns Hopkins University (post-doc) |
| 2020 | Alessandro | Iorio | Bocconi University |
| 2020 | Jerry | Guo | Aarhus University |
| 2021 | Elizabeth | Campbell | UCSD |
| 2022 | Pranav | Gupta | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 2023 | Jisoo | Park | Clark University |
| 2023 | Ki-Won | Haan | CMU-Qatar |
| 2023 | Matthew | Diabes | New York University |
| 2023 | Sae-Seul | Park | University of Toronto |
| 2026 | Jenny | Oh | Bucknell University |