Ph.D. Alumni
2024-2025
Meenakshi Balakrishna
Ph.D., Management, Quantitative Marketing, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Marketing at the BITS School of Management, India.
meenakshirb19@gmail.com
Katie Hillegass
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: US Army Enterprise Marketing Office
katiehillegass@gmail.com
S. Yanki Kalfa
Ph.D., Management, Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Finance at the Fordham University- Gabelli School of Business
skalfa@fordham.edu
Michelle Kim
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
ysmichellekim@gmail.com
Anindo Sarkar
Ph.D., Management, Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor in Finance at the Indian School of Business
anindo.sark@gmail.com
Gal Smitizsky
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Shuang Wu
Ph.D., Management, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Assistant Professor of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023-2024
Seung Hyun Kim
Ph.D., Management, Quantitative Marketing, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Junxiong.Gao@rady.ucsd.edu
Giulia Maimone
Ph.D., Management, Behavioral Marketing, 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, 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, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Prabhanjan.didwania@rady.ucsd.edu
Yumeng Gu
Ph.D., Management, Management, 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, 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, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Ritong Qu
Ph.D., Management, Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
Yidan Yin
Ph.D., Management, Management, 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, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Placement: Economist at Amazon.
2019-2020
Youngjae Choi
Ph.D., Management, Finance, 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, 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, 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, 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.