- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2021
- Initial Placement: IBM Research
- Current Position: AKASA
Graduate Advising
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.
Karthik Rajkumar
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2021
- Initial Placement: LinkedIn
- Current Position: LinkedIn
Allison Koenecke
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2021
- Initial Placement: Microsoft Research
- Current Position: Cornell University
Gleb Romanyuk
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2017
- Initial Placement: Amazon
- Current Position: Amazon
Jing Xia
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2016
- Initial Placement: Cornerstone Research
- Current Position: Cornerstone Research
Jacob Leshno
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2012
- Initial Placement: Columbia
- Current Position: Chicago Booth
Eduardo Azevedo
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2012
- Initial Placement: U. Penn
- Current Position: U. Penn
Yuichi Yamamoto
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2011
- Initial Placement: U. Penn
- Current Position: U. Penn
Scott Kominers
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2011
- Initial Placement: Harvard Society of Fellows
- Current Position: Harvard Business School
Itay Fainmesser
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2010
- Initial Placement: Brown
- Current Position: Johns Hopkins
Mihai Manea
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2009
- Initial Placement: MIT
- Current Position: MIT
Jonathan Kolstad
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2009
- Initial Placement: Wharton
- Current Position: UC Berkeley
Eric Budish
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2009
- Initial Placement: University of Chicago GSB
- Current Position: University of Chicago GSB
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/bio.aspx?person_id=14071275520
Robin Lee
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2008
- Initial Placement: New York University, Yahoo! Research Post-doc
- Current Position: Harvard
Enrique Seira
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2007
- Initial Placement: World Bank
- Current Position: ITAM, Mexico
http://cie.itam.mx/englishversion/research/cie_research.html#seira
Sean Chu*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2007
- Initial Placement: Federal Reserve Board (D.C.)
- Current Position: Facebook Data Science
Nageeb Ali*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2007
- Initial Placement: UC San Diego
- Current Position: Penn State
Matthew Osborne*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2006
- Initial Placement: Department of Justice
- Current Position: University of Toronto
Saumitra Jha*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2006
- Initial Placement: Harvard University, Academy Scholar Post-Doc
- Current Position: Stanford GSB
Ignacio Esponda*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2006
- Initial Placement: New York University
- Current Position: UC Santa Barbara
Catherine Tucker
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2005
- Initial Placement: MIT Sloan School
- Current Position: MIT Sloan School
Lu Han
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2005
- Initial Placement: University of Toronto Business
- Current Position: University of Toronto Business
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/viewFac.asp?facultyID=Lu.Han
Vinicius Carrasco*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2005
- Initial Placement: Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
- Current Position: Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro
Morten Sorenson
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2004
- Initial Placement: University of Chicago GSB
- Current Position: Columbia
http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/139031/Morten+Sorensen
David Miller*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2004
- Initial Placement: UC San Diego
- Current Position: Michigan
Amalia Miller
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2004
- Initial Placement: University of Virginia
- Current Position: University of Virginia
Pai Yin
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2003
- Initial Placement: Harvard Business School
- Current Position: USC Marshall
Eiichiro Kazumori*
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2003
- Initial Placement: Cal Tech Postdoc
- Current Position: The University of Massachusetts
Mara (Berman) Lederman
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 2003
- Initial Placement: University of Toronto Business
- Current Position: University of Toronto Business
Erin Baker
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford MSE 2002
- Initial Placement: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Current Position: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Katherine Doornik
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford GSB 2002
- Initial Placement: University College Oxford
- Current Position: St. John’s College Oxford
Astrid Dick*
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 2002
- Initial Placement: Federal Reserve Board (D.C.)
- Current Position: INSEAD
Scott Ashworth
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 2000
- Initial Placement: Harvard Government
- Current Position: Chicago/Harris School
Paul Ellickson*
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 1999
- Initial Placement: Rochester/Simon School
- Current Position: Rochester/Simon School
Max Amarante
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 1999
- Initial Placement: Columbia
- Current Position: University of Montreal
Jaime Ortega
- Ph.D. Program: MIT 1998
- Initial Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Current Position: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Undergraduate Advising
These students either wrote a thesis under my supervision, or else I served as an advisor and letter-writer for their graduate school applications.
Zanele Munyikwa
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford GSB RF 2017
- Ph.D. Program: MIT Sloan
- Initial Placement:
- Undergrad Thesis Title: Compositional Approaches for Document Level Sentiment Analysis
Aaron Kaye
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2015
- Ph.D. Program: Michigan
- Initial Placement:
- Undergrad Thesis Title:
Dmitry Taubinsky
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2014
- Initial Placement: Dartmouth
- Undergrad Thesis Title:
Scott Kominers
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2011
- Initial Placement: Harvard Society of Fellows
- Undergrad Thesis Title: Weighted Generating Functions and Configuration Results for Type II Lattices and Codes
Justin Svec
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2003
- Ph.D. Program: Columbia 2009
- Initial Placement: College of the Holy Cross
- Undergrad Thesis Title: Default Risk in Banking
Robin Greenwood
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1998
- Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2003
- Initial Placement: Harvard Business School
- Undergrad Thesis Title:
http://pine.hbs.edu/external/facPersonalShow.do?email=rgreenwood
Irena Asmundson
- Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1998
- Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2005
- Initial Placement: IMF
- Undergrad Thesis Title: The Impact of 911 Technology on Health Outcomes and Hospital Allocation for Automobile Accidents