Note 1: At MIT, only two faculty members formally form the Ph.D. committee, but students typically have more than two advisors. I include here all students where I played the role equivalent of committee member, including meeting regularly and writing recommendation letters for the job market.
Note 2: An asterisk indicates primary advisor or co-principal advisor.
Student Name | Ph.D. Institution |
Ph.D. Year![]() |
Field | Initial Placement | Current Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Camilo Castillo | Stanford | 2020 | Industrial Organization | UPenn | Assistant Professor in the Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania |
Rina Friedberg | Stanford | 2020 | Statistics | ||
Maria Dimakopoulou | Stanford | 2019 | Management Science and Engineering/Reinforcement Learning | Netflix | Netflix |
Rob Donnely* | Stanford GSB | 2019 | Industrial Organization | Facebook Core Data Science | |
Kun Kuang | Tsinghua | 2019 | Computer Science (Machine Learning) | Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University | Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University |
Zhengyuan Zhou | Stanford | 2019 | Electrical Engineering (Operations Research, Machine Learning) | NYU Stern | NYU Stern |
Gleb Romanyuk | Harvard | 2017 | Microeconomic Theory | Amazon | Amazon |
Zoe Cullen | Stanford | 2016 | Labor/Digitization | Harvard Business School | Harvard Business School |
Stefan Wager | Stanford | 2016 | Statistics | Stanford Graduate School of Business | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Jing Xia | Harvard | 2016 | Industrial Organization | Cornerstone Research | Cornerstone Research |
Chiara Farronato | Stanford | 2015 | Industrial Organization/Market Design | Harvard Business School | Harvard Business School |
Nikhil Agarwal | Harvard | 2013 | Industrial Organization/Market Design | MIT | MIT |
Jacob Leshno | Harvard | 2012 | Microeconomic Theory/Market Design | Columbia | Chicago Booth |
Eduardo Azevedo | Harvard | 2012 | Microeconomic Theory/Market Design | U. Penn | U. Penn |
Maya Meidan | Stanford | 2011 | Industrial Organization/Trade | Cornerstone | Cornerstone |
Yuichi Yamamoto | Harvard | 2011 | Microeconomic Theory | U. Penn | U. Penn |
Scott Kominers | Harvard | 2011 | Microeconomic Theory/Market Design | Harvard Society of Fellows | Harvard Business School |
Itay Fainmesser | Harvard | 2010 | Microeconomic Theory/Networks/Market Design | Brown | Johns Hopkins |
Jonathan Kolstad | Harvard | 2009 | Empirical Health/IO | Wharton | UC Berkeley |
Eric Budish | Harvard | 2009 | Microeconomic Theory/Market Design | University of Chicago GSB | University of Chicago GSB |
Mihai Manea | Harvard | 2009 | Microeconomic Theory | MIT | MIT |
Robin Lee | Harvard | 2008 | Empirical and Theoretical IO | New York University, Yahoo! Research Post-doc | Harvard |
Nageeb Ali* | Stanford | 2007 | Microeconomic Theory | UC San Diego | Penn State |
Enrique Seira | Stanford | 2007 | Empirical Development/IO | World Bank | ITAM, Mexico |
Sean Chu* | Stanford | 2007 | Empirical IO | Federal Reserve Board (D.C.) | Facebook Data Science |
Ignacio Esponda* | Stanford | 2006 | Microeconomic Theory | New York University | UC Santa Barbara |
Saumitra Jha* | Stanford | 2006 | Development/History/Political Economics/Theory | Harvard University, Academy Scholar Post-Doc | Stanford GSB |
Matthew Osborne* | Stanford | 2006 | Empirical IO | Department of Justice | University of Toronto |
Lu Han | Stanford | 2005 | Empirical IO, Finance, Real Estate | University of Toronto Business | University of Toronto Business |
Catherine Tucker | Stanford | 2005 | Empirical IO, Strategy | MIT Sloan School | MIT Sloan School |
Vinicius Carrasco* | Stanford | 2005 | Microeconomic Theory, Organizations | Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro | Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro |
David Miller* | Stanford | 2004 | Microeconomic Theory | UC San Diego | Michigan |
Amalia Miller | Stanford | 2004 | Empirical Applied Microeconomics | University of Virginia | University of Virginia |
Kelly Wang | Stanford | 2004 | Banking, Econometrics, Empirical IO | University of Tokyo | Federal Reserve Board (D.C.) |
Morten Sorenson | Stanford | 2004 | Empirical IO, Finance | University of Chicago GSB | Columbia |
Mara (Berman) Lederman | MIT | 2003 | Empirical IO | University of Toronto Business | University of Toronto Business |
Eiichiro Kazumori* | Stanford | 2003 | Auctions, Microeconomic Theory | Cal Tech Postdoc | The University of Massachusetts |
Donald Nichols* | Stanford | 2003 | Empirical Health Economics | Washington University in St. Louis | IMPAQ |
Ravi Singh | Stanford | 2003 | Microeconomic Theory, Organizations | Harvard Business School | |
Pai Yin | Stanford | 2003 | Auctions, Empirical IO | Harvard Business School | USC Marshall |
Astrid Dick* | MIT | 2002 | Banking, Empirical IO | Federal Reserve Board (D.C.) | INSEAD |
Katherine Doornik | Stanford GSB | 2002 | Microeconomic Theory, Organizations | University College Oxford | St. John's College Oxford |
Erin Baker | Stanford MSE | 2002 | Microeconomic Theory/Environmental | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Scott Ashworth | MIT | 2000 | Applied Theory/Political Economy | Harvard Government | Chicago/Harris School |
Sharon Novak | MIT | 1999 | Empirical Organizations | MIT | |
Max Amarante | MIT | 1999 | Microeconomic Theory | Columbia | University of Montreal |
Paul Ellickson* | MIT | 1999 | Empirical IO | Rochester/Simon School | Rochester/Simon School |
Jaime Ortega | MIT | 1998 | Microeconomic Theory, Organizations | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Margaret Hwang Smith | Harvard | 1996 | Empirical Organizations | Pomona |
These students either wrote a thesis under my supervision, or else I served as an advisor and letter-writer for their graduate school applications.
Student Name | Undergrad / Predoctoral Program |
B.A./ Completion Year![]() |
Ph.D. Institution | Ph.D. Year | Initial Placement | Undergrad Thesis Title |
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Mitchell Linegar | Stanford GSB RF | 2020 | CalTech | 2020 | Stanford GSB Research Fellow | |
Matt Schaelling | Stanford | 2020 | Brown University | SIEPR predoctoral program | ||
Zanele Munyikwa | Stanford GSB RF | 2017 | MIT Sloan | Compositional Approaches for Document Level Sentiment Analysis | ||
Sebastian Steffen | Microsoft Research | 2016 | MIT | |||
Aaron Kaye | Microsoft Research | 2015 | Michigan | |||
Rob Donnelly | Microsoft Research | 2014 | Stanford GSB | 2019 | ||
Zarek Brot-Goldberg | Microsoft Research | 2014 | UC Berkeley | 2019 | ||
Jeff Qiu | Microsoft Research | 2013 | Yale | 2019 | ||
Daniel Waldinger | Microsoft Research | 2013 | MIT | 2018 | NYU | |
Ben Klopack | Texas A&M | 2013 | Stanford | |||
Bryan Callaway | Microsoft Research | 2013 | Masters-Stanford | |||
Josh Feng | Microsoft Research | 2012 | Harvard | 2018 | NBER Postdoctoral Fellow | |
Michael Diadato | Harvard | 2010 | Survival of the Biddest: Bid Wars on eBay and How Sellers Can Respond | |||
Clara Anderson | Harvard | 2009 | Who Moves Preferences And Why? Quantifying Social Influence In An Experiment Involving Harvard Undergraduates | |||
Scott Kominers | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | 2011 | Harvard Society of Fellows | Weighted Generating Functions and Configuration Results for Type II Lattices and Codes |
Rezwan Haque | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | |||
Christopher Sullivan | Harvard | 2009 | Michigan | 2017 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | The Ice Cream Split: Empirically Distinguishing Price and Product Space Collusion |
Alexander Marcus | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | |||
Dmitry Taubinsky | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | 2014 | Dartmouth | |
David Yang | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | |||
Fan Zhang | Harvard | 2009 | Harvard | |||
Eric Sun | Stanford | 2005 | Stanford Statistics | The Effects of Auction Parameters on Price Dispersion and Bidder Entry on eBay: A Conditional Logit Analysis (Anna Laura Meyers Prize Winner) | ||
Alex Kendall | Stanford | 2004 | MIT | Stochastic Bundling With and Without a Secondary Market (Sobieski Award Winner) | ||
Florian Reichling | Stanford | 2004 | Effects of Reputation Mechanisms on Fraud Prevention at eBay | |||
Julia Thornton | Stanford | 2004 | Minnesota | |||
Justin Svec | Stanford | 2003 | Columbia | 2009 | College of the Holy Cross | Default Risk in Banking |
Cristian Voicu | Stanford | 2002 | Harvard | 2007 | Redbrick Partners | Dynamic Procurement Auctions with Capacity Constraints (Stanford University Firestone Medal Winner) |
Heather Wasserlain | MIT | 1999 | Technology and Market Structure of the Pre-Jet Aircraft Industry | |||
Irena Asmundson | MIT | 1998 | Stanford | 2005 | IMF | The Impact of 911 Technology on Health Outcomes and Hospital Allocation for Automobile Accidents |
Marcos Chamon | MIT | 1998 | Harvard | 2004 | IMF | |
Sandra Chan | MIT | 1998 | MIT | Charles River Associates | ||
Winnie Choi | MIT | 1998 | Stanford | 2005 | Barclays Capital | |
Robin Greenwood | MIT | 1998 | Harvard | 2003 | Harvard Business School |