The 9th annual Southern California Graduate Conference in Applied Economics (SOCAE) will be held in person on November 14, 2026 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. SOCAE brings together graduate students from across Southern California to present research in applied microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Conference Attendees
Ahmad Amin, UC San Diego
Jake Anderson, UCLA
Joaquin Armas, UC San Diego
Zoe Arnaut, UC San Diego
Jacopo Ballabio, UCLA
Andres Barinas-Forero, UC San Diego
Yuxin Cai, UC Santa Barbara
Santiago Cantillo-Cleves, UC San Diego
Ritasree De, UC Irvine
Santiago De Martini, USC
Paige Ehresmann, UC Irvine
Nicholas Emery-Xu, UCLA
Maddison Erbabian, UC San Diego
Kory Fenstemacher, UC Irvine
Kelsey Figone, UCLA
Matthew Forbes, RAND
Vanshika Fotedar, USC
Blanca Garcia, UC San Diego
Ishita Ghai, RAND
Juan Gonzalez, USC
Idaliya Grigoryeva, UC San Diego
Esteban Guerrero, RAND
Zach Hayward, UC Santa Barbara
Neil He, USC
Yang Heppe, UC San Diego
Juan Hernandez, UC San Diego
Mukund Jayaram, UC Irvine
Brandon Kabernagel, UC Irvine
Dong Hyeok Kang, USC
Noah Kouchekinia, UC Irvine
Hiroyuki Kubota, UCLA
Shipra Kumar, UC Irvine
Kehui Leng, USC
Russell Leonard, UC Irvine
Hang Liu, USC
Xiyue Liu, UC Santa Barbara
Yihong Liu, UC Santa Barbara
Marco Lo Faso, USC
Schuyler Louie, UC Irvine
Odera Onyechi, USC
Chi-Chi Onyekonwu, UC Santa Barbara
Camila Paleo, UC Santa Barbara
Syuzanna Petrosyan, RAND
Khanh Pham, UC Irvine
Nghia Pham, Caltech
Eugenio Piga, UC San Diego
Juliana Pinillos, USC
Donovan Rasamoelison, UC Santa Barbara
Anita Sammarini, UC San Diego
Elyse St Sauver, UC Irvine
Sariya Stowers, UC San Diego
Matias Strehl-Pessina, UC Santa Barbara
Siqi Su, USC
Komal Trishna, UC Santa Barbara
Himani Verma, UC Irvine
Renee Wang, UC Irvine
Guillaume Wegmueller, Caltech
Brendon Wong, UC Irvine
Andrew Wu, UC San Diego
George Yang, UC Santa Barbara
Akshay Yeddanapudi, UC Santa Barbara
Letian Yin, UC San Diego
Tianhong Zhang, UCLA
Dan Zheng, UC Irvine
Fanwen Zhu, UCLA