Served as Dissertation Committee Chair
| Student Name | Year | Initial Placement | Notes |
| Xiang Li | 2024 | Assistant Professor, Fordham University | |
| Jingxuan Zhang | 2023 | Assistant Professor, University of Alberta | |
| Yuxin Wu | 2023 | Associate, Cornerstone Research | |
| Jiajie Xu | 2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Iowa | |
| Xiang Zheng | 2021 | Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut | |
| Harshit Rajaiya | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa | |
| Yu Wang | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas | Dissertation Co-Chair |
| Qianqian Yu | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Lehigh University | |
| Yuyuan Zhu | 2017 | Equity Research Analyst, T. Rowe Price | |
| Igor Karagodsky | 2017 | Associate, Analysis Group | |
| Francesca Toscano | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Wayne State University | |
| Lei Kong | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Alabama | |
| Yingzhen Li | 2014 | Associate, The Brattle Group |
Dissertation Chair — Extended Career Progression
| Student Name | Year | Initial Placement | Subsequent Career |
| Tyler Hull | 2011 | Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics | Co-chair; Tenured (2014); UMass Boston (2016) |
| Jie He | 2010 | Assistant Professor, University of Georgia | Tenured & promoted to Associate Professor (2016) |
| Jiekun Huang | 2009 | Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore | Univ. of Illinois (2013); Tenured (2018) |
| Xuan Tian | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Indiana University | Assoc. Prof. (2014); Full Prof. (2016); JD Capital Chair, Tsinghua (2017) |
| Karthik Krishnan | 2008 | Assistant Professor, Northeastern University | Tenured & promoted (2015) |
| Shan He | 2007 | Assistant Professor, LSU | Assoc. Prof. (2015); Oregon State Univ. (2017) |
| Onur Bayar | 2007 | Assistant Professor, UT San Antonio | Tenured & promoted (2014) |
| Elena Loutskina | 2006 | Assistant Professor, UVA – Darden | Tenured & promoted (2014) |
| Yawen Jiao | 2006 | Assistant Professor, RPI | Tenured at UC Riverside (2017) |
Dissertation Chair — Early Cohorts
| Student Name | Year | Initial Placement | Subsequent Career |
| Gang Hu | 2005 | Assistant Professor, Babson College | Tenured (2011); Hong Kong PolyU (2014); Deceased |
| Karen Simonyan | 2005 | Assistant Professor, Suffolk University | Tenured & promoted (2011) |
| Mark Liu | 2004 | Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky | Tenured & promoted (2011) |
| Debarshi Nandy | 2004 | Assistant Professor, York University | Brandeis Univ. (2011); Tenured (2013) |
| Imants Paeglis | 2002 | Associate Professor, Concordia University | Tenured (2007) |
| An Yan | 2001 | Professor of Finance, Fordham University | Tenured (2007) |
Served as Dissertation Committee Member
| Student Name | Year | Initial Placement | Subsequent Career |
| Jing Xie | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Student from NUS |
| Manish Gupta | 2015 | Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham | Student from Univ. of Zurich |
| Viktar Fedaseyeu | 2011 | Assistant Professor, Bocconi University | |
| Jingzhi Meng | — | Assistant Professor, Stonehill College | Tenured & promoted (2015) |
| Zhaohui Chen | — | Assistant Professor, Temple University | Co-author / Informal Adviser; UVA; Tenured (2015) |
| Gayane Hovakimian | — | Assistant Professor, Fordham University |
Columbia University
Served as Dissertation Committee Chair / Member
| Student Name | Role | Placement / Position |
| Helen Liu | Sponsor / Main Adviser | Bank of America |
| Chandrashekhar Reddy Gukhal | Dissertation Proposal Committee | Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
| Oren Fuerst | Committee Member | Assistant Professor, Yale University |
| Yuqing Zhou | Committee Member | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Raman Kalra | Committee Member | Hedge Fund Position |
| Theivani Palaniyappan | Committee Member | Financial & Strategic Consulting |
