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.

Rina Friedberg

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2020
  • Initial Placement: LinkedIn
  • Current Position: LinkedIn

Camilo Castillo

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2020
  • Initial Placement: UPenn
  • Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Economics Department, University of Pennsylvania

Zhengyuan Zhou

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2019
  • Initial Placement: NYU Stern
  • Current Position: NYU Stern

Kun Kuang

  • Ph.D. Program: Tsinghua 2019
  • Initial Placement: Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University
  • Current Position: Department of Computer Science, Zhejiang University

Rob Donnely*

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford GSB 2019
  • Initial Placement: Facebook Core Data Science
  • Current Position:

Maria Dimakopoulou

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2019
  • Initial Placement: Netflix
  • Current Position: Netflix

Stefan Wager

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2016
  • Initial Placement: Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Current Position: Stanford Graduate School of Business

Zoe Cullen

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2016
  • Initial Placement: Harvard Business School
  • Current Position: Harvard Business School

Chiara Farronato

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2015
  • Initial Placement: Harvard Business School
  • Current Position: Harvard Business School

Nikhil Agarwal

  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2013
  • Initial Placement: MIT
  • Current Position: MIT

Maya Meidan

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2011
  • Initial Placement: Cornerstone
  • Current Position: Cornerstone

Scott Kominers

  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2011
  • Initial Placement: Harvard Society of Fellows
  • Current Position: Harvard Business School

http://www.scottkom.com

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

http://www.econ.puc-rio.br/vnc/

Kelly Wang

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2004
  • Initial Placement: University of Tokyo
  • Current Position: Federal Reserve Board (D.C.)

Ravi Singh

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2003
  • Initial Placement: Harvard Business School
  • Current Position:

Donald Nichols*

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2003
  • Initial Placement: Washington University in St. Louis
  • Current Position: IMPAQ

Eiichiro Kazumori*

  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2003
  • Initial Placement: Cal Tech Postdoc
  • Current Position: The University of Massachusetts

http://www.kazumori.net/

Paul Ellickson*

  • Ph.D. Program: MIT 1999
  • Initial Placement: Rochester/Simon School
  • Current Position: Rochester/Simon School

http://paulellickson.com/

Sharon Novak

  • Ph.D. Program: MIT 1999
  • Initial Placement: MIT
  • Current Position:

Jaime Ortega

  • Ph.D. Program: MIT 1998
  • Initial Placement: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  • Current Position: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

http://www.jaimeortega.net/

Margaret Hwang Smith

  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 1996
  • Initial Placement: Pomona
  • Current Position:

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.

Mitchell Linegar

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford GSB RF 2020
  • Ph.D. Program: CalTech 2020
  • Initial Placement: Stanford GSB Research Fellow
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Matt Schaelling

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2020
  • Ph.D. Program: Brown University
  • Initial Placement: SIEPR predoctoral program
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

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

http://www.zanelemunyikwa.com/

Sebastian Steffen

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2016
  • Ph.D. Program: MIT
  • Initial Placement:
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Zarek Brot-Goldberg

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2014
  • Ph.D. Program: UC Berkeley 2019
  • Initial Placement: Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Rob Donnelly

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2014
  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford GSB 2019
  • Initial Placement:
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Daniel Waldinger

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2013
  • Ph.D. Program: MIT 2018
  • Initial Placement: NYU
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Jeff Qiu

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2013
  • Ph.D. Program: Yale 2019
  • Initial Placement:
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Ben Klopack

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Texas A&M 2013
  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford
  • Initial Placement:
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Bryan Callaway

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2013
  • Ph.D. Program: Masters-Stanford
  • Initial Placement:
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Josh Feng

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Microsoft Research 2012
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2018
  • Initial Placement: NBER Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Michael Diadato

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2010
  • Ph.D. Program:
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  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Survival of the Biddest: Bid Wars on eBay and How Sellers Can Respond

Fan Zhang

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard
  • Initial Placement:
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David Yang

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard
  • Initial Placement:
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Dmitry Taubinsky

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2014
  • Initial Placement: Dartmouth
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

https://www.dmitrytaubinsky.com/

Christopher Sullivan

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Michigan 2017
  • Initial Placement: University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Undergrad Thesis Title: The Ice Cream Split: Empirically Distinguishing Price and Product Space Collusion

Alexander Marcus

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard
  • Initial Placement:
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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

http://www.scottkom.com

Rezwan Haque

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard
  • Initial Placement:
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Clara Anderson

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Harvard 2009
  • Ph.D. Program:
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  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Who Moves Preferences And Why? Quantifying Social Influence In An Experiment Involving Harvard Undergraduates

Eric Sun

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2005
  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford Statistics
  • Initial Placement:
  • Undergrad Thesis Title: The Effects of Auction Parameters on Price Dispersion and Bidder Entry on eBay: A Conditional Logit Analysis (Anna Laura Meyers Prize Winner)

Julia Thornton

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2004
  • Ph.D. Program: Minnesota
  • Initial Placement:
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Florian Reichling

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2004
  • Ph.D. Program:
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  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Effects of Reputation Mechanisms on Fraud Prevention at eBay

Alex Kendall

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2004
  • Ph.D. Program: MIT
  • Initial Placement:
  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Stochastic Bundling With and Without a Secondary Market (Sobieski Award Winner)

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

http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/jsvec/

Cristian Voicu

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: Stanford 2002
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2007
  • Initial Placement: Redbrick Partners
  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Dynamic Procurement Auctions with Capacity Constraints (Stanford University Firestone Medal Winner)

Heather Wasserlain

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1999
  • Ph.D. Program:
  • Initial Placement:
  • Undergrad Thesis Title: Technology and Market Structure of the Pre-Jet Aircraft Industry

Winnie Choi

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1998
  • Ph.D. Program: Stanford 2005
  • Initial Placement: Barclays Capital
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Sandra Chan

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1998
  • Ph.D. Program: MIT
  • Initial Placement: Charles River Associates
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

Marcos Chamon

  • Undergrad / Predoctoral Program: MIT 1998
  • Ph.D. Program: Harvard 2004
  • Initial Placement: IMF
  • Undergrad Thesis Title:

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

https://www.linkedin.com/in/iasmundson