Doctoral Students Supervised

Initial Placements after Student Name

At Boston College

Served as Dissertation Committee Chair of the Following Students:

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

Tyler Hull                             2011                Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

(student from Brandeis University, dissertation  co-chair; Tenured and Promoted as Associate Professor in Fall 2014, Moved as Assistant Professor of Finance to  University of  Massachusetts at Boston as of Fall 2016)

Jie He                                   2010                Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2016)

Jiekun Huang                      2009                Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

(Moved to University of Illioois in Fall 2013, Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor starting Fall 2018)

Xuan Tian                            2008                Assistant Professor, Indiana University at Bloomington

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2014; Promoted to Full Professor as of Fall 2016, Moved in 2017 as JD Capital Chair of Finance at PBC School, Tsinghua)

 Karthik Krishnan               2008                Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2015)

 Shan He                              2007                Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor in Fall 2015; Moved as tenured Associate Professor to Oregon State University in Fall 2017)

 Onur Bayar                        2007                Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2014)

 Elena Loutskina                2006                Assistant Professor, University of Virginia – Darden School

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2014)

 Yawen Jiao                         2006                Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2017 at the University of California, Riverside)

 Gang Hu                             2005                Assistant Professor, Babson College

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2011, Moved as tenured Associate Professor of Finance to Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2014)

(Recently passed away. Here is the Zoom memorials for him: Link)

(Gang Hu's Brief Biography and Obituary: Link)

 Karen Simonyan               2005                Assistant Professor, Suffolk University

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2011)

 Mark Liu                             2004                Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor as of Fall 2011)

Debarshi Nandy                 2004                Assistant Professor, York University

(Moved to Brandeis University starting Fall 2011, Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor of Finance, Brandeis University, starting Fall 2013)

 Imants Paeglis                   2002                Associate Professor (Tenured as of Fall 2007), Concordia University

 An Yan                                 2001                Professor of Finance (Tenured as of Fall 2007), Fordham University

Served as Dissertation Committee Member of the Following Students:

Jing Xie                                  2015                Assistance Professor, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

(Student from National University of Singapore)

Manish Gupta                      2015                 Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

(Student from University of Zurich)

Viktar Fedaseyeu                 2011                 Assistant Professor, Bocconi University

Jingzhi Meng                                                  Assistant Professor,  Stonehill College

(Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor of Finance, starting Fall 2015)

Zhaohui Chen                                                Assistant Professor (Co-author/Informal adviser), Temple University

(Moved to University of Virginia, Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor of Finance, starting Fall 2015)

Gayane Hovakimian                                     Assistant Professor, Fordham University

At Columbia University

Served as Dissertation Committee Chair/Member of the Following Students:

Helen Liu                                                      (Sponsor/Main Adviser), Bank of America

Chandrashekhar Reddy Gukhal                (Dissertation Proposal Committee), Assistant Professor, Cornell University

Oren Fuerst                                                  Assistant Professor, Yale University

Yuqing Zhou                                                 Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Raman Kalra                                                 Position at Hedge Fund

Theivani Palaniyappan                               Financial and Strategic Consulting Firm