Teaching and Supervision

Undergraduate

• Introduction, Intermediate, and Advanced Macroeconomics 

• Intermediate Microeconomics

• Forecasting in Business & Economics

• Natural Resources Economics

• Latin American Studies

Graduate

• Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

• Empirical Macroeconomics

• Monetary Economics

• Time Series Econometrics 

• Advanced Econometrics

• Colloquium in Macroeconomics/Economic Theory

Graduate Students

 Supervisor, Ph.D. Dissertations

• Yong Ju Lee, 2024,  Ashland University, Ohio

• Yanchao Yang, 2022, DePauw University, Indiana

• Taghi Farzad, 2022,  Fannie Mae, Washington, D.C. 

• Mirewuti Muhetaer, 2021,  Citi Group , New York

• Kai Chen, 2021, Market Intelligence Analyst, Li Auto Company , China

• Hien Nguyen, 2019, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA

• Mingyuan Jia, 2019, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

• Bo-Yu Chen, 2019, Insight Data Science, NY

• Andre Maranhao 2019, Getulio Vargas Foundation of Sao Paulo and Bank of Brasil, 

• Tasneem Raihan, 2018, A2F Consulting, Bethesda, MD

• Ali Bagherpour, 2018, Fannie Mae, Washington. D.C.

• Sungjun Huh, 2018, Marquette University,  Milwaukee, WI (co-chair)

• Zhi Zhao, 2018, Southwestern University of Economics and Finance, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Walmir Silva, 2018, Central Bank of Brazil, Brasilia, Brazil (co-chair)

• Najrin Khanon, 2016, North Central College, Naperville, IL

• Riyad Abubaker, 2016, American University in Kuwait and Trinity College, Hartford, CT

• Xuefeng Pan, 2016 University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China

• Yanpin Su, 2015, Citibank, Buffalo, NY

• Mehdi Naji, 2015, Central Bank of Iran, Tehran, Iran

• Jason Cheng Jiang, 2014, Temple University, Business School, Philadelphia, PA

• Yinqiao Fan, 2014 Abd, Amazon, Seattle, WA

• Mi Lu, 2013, Ghent University, Belgium, and Fiduciary Research and Consulting, San Francisco, CA

• Venoo Kakar, 2013, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

• Rama Kumar, 2013, Chapman University, CA

• Chandler Lutz, 2011, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

• Insu Kim, 2010, Central Bank of Korea, and Chonbuk National University, Seoul, Korea

• Jie Li, 2010, HSBC Finance, San Francisco, CA

• MeiChi Huang, 2009, National Taipei University, Taiwan (first job at Business School, Yuan Ze University)

• Zeynep Senyuz, 2008, Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors, D.C. (first job at University of New Hampshire)

• Heather Tierney, 2005, College of Charleston, SC (co-chair)

• Witsaroot Pariyaprasert, 2005, Assumption University, Thailand (co-chair)

• Gurleen Popli, University of Sheffield, UK  (co-chair)

• Fang Dong, Providence College, RI

• Chengxuan Yu, Siena College and NY State Health Department, NY

• Yun-Mei Yang, (MSc, ABD), Taiwan

• Francisco Figueiredo, (MSc, ABD) Central Bank of Brazil 

 In Progress

• Murilo Silva (Ph.D candidate)

• Lusha Xu  (Ph.D candidate)

• Qichen Zhou (Ph.D. candidate)

• Ryan Hodge

• Han Zhang

• Jianbin Chen

Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee

• Jon  Ellingsen (BI Norwegian Business School), 2023, Oslo Economics

• Olav Syrstad (Norwegian School of Economics), 2021, BI Norwegian Business School

• Kurt Paczkowski, UCR, in progress

• Rafael Guimaraes (University of Rio Grande do Sul), 2021, Central Bank of Brasil

• Daniel  Ehmann (ETH Zürich KOF), 2021, IBM

• Raymond   Kim (Graduate School of Business, UCR), 2020, Northern Arizona University

• Alok Yadav, 2018, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India

• Luckas Sabioni Lopez, 2014, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 

• Ru Zhang (UCR) 2014, JP Morgan Chase

• Zhou Xi (UCR) 2013, JP Morgan Chase

• Yingying Sun (UCR), 2013, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,

• Yundong Tu (UCR) 2012, Peking University, China

• Emre Yoldas (UCR) 2009, Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors (first job Bentley U.)

• Zuzana Janko (UCR) 2004, University of Calgary, Canada, San Francisco State University

• Sherman Ho (UCR), Providian Financial, San Francisco

• Souhir Slim (Faculté de Droit & des Sciences Economiques and Politiques Cité Erriadh) 

MSc.Thesis Supervised

• Henrique Pires, MSc from University of Brasilia, Ministry of Finance of Brazil  

• Wenyan Yuan, MA. from University of California Riverside

 Undergraduate Students

Selected Research Supervised and Awards

• Francisco Ilabaca, UC Riverside Rosemary Schraer Memorial Fund Scholarship  2014, UC Riverside Academic Excellence Award (PhD from UCI, and now Research Economist at the Office of Financial Research, D.C.) 

• Annie Zhuo, UC Undergraduate Minigrant Fellowship

• Francis Hoang , UC President’s Undergraduate Fellowship

• Caroline Lee, The University of California Senior Student Award