PhD Placement


PhD graduates and their first professional position after leaving KU.
 Graduate 

1st Job Placement

2024 
Zeyan ShenIntern, Chinese Securities
Shatil AnaholyAssistant Professor of Practice of Economics, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Uttiya PaulAssistant Professor of Economics, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
GunawanAssistant Professor of Economics, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Srishti SlariaAssistant Professor of Economics, Illinois State University 
2023 
Fangli LiaoRevenue Economist, Department of Revenue of Nebraska
Ahad Zaman KahnQuantitative Risk Modeling Analyst, Huntington Bank
Pixiong ChenQuantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo
Aryaman BhatnagarAssistant Professor, East Tennessee State University
Seoyeon JoVisiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Mike EasterdayEconomist, Social Security Administration
  
2022 
Hyun ParkVisiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Sohee ParkVisiting Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University
Misun ParkAssociate Research Fellow, Korea Rural Economic Institute
Haoyi WeiPostdoctoral Researcher, National Science Foundation
Hojin ParkPostdoctoral Researcher, Center for Tobacco Research, Ohio State University
Van NguyenAssistant Professor, Lawrence University
2021 
Hoa VuPostdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
William DuncanAssistant Professor, Baker University
Kegan O'ConnorFinancial Economist, Kansas Department of Revenue, Office of Policy and Research
Caio Vigo PereiraModel Developer, cQuant
2020 
Sifat AdiyaGovernment of British Columbia, Ministry of Education
Ahadul Kabir MuyeedA2F Consulting
Ruoning HanVisiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
AY22-23: Assistant Professor, Whitman College
Gregory LeungCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC in Atlanta
2019 
Jéssica DutraEconomists Inc.
Qing HanUniversity of Iowa
Jiacheng HeConversant
2020: Amazon
David Gutiérrez LunaPontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Oikonomics Consultora Económica
Jen BodenDrury University
Fatima HasanMount Saint Joseph University
Rina NaPRA Health Sciences
Luis MolinasCentral Bank of Paraguay
2018 
Oguzhan BatmazGrand Valley State University
Alexander Alegria CastellanosPontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia
Guo ChenMonsanto Corporation Headquarters
Jingxian HuBoise State University
Chaozheng LiBao To Pi (Education Start-up in China)
Jessica McCloskeyBureau of Economic Analysis
Michael RobertsPREMIER Bankcard, South Dakota
Chen SunFirst Bank of Tennessee
Manuel Aleja Pulido VelasquezGrand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Asmaa YaseenCollege of Saint Benedict and St. John's University (CSB/SJU)
2017 
Neepa Gaekwad BabulalState University of New York at Fredonia
Yue Feng Nanjing University and Bank of Nanjing, China
John FrancoisWest Texas A&M University
Indrani MannaReserve Bank of India
Akwasi "Kay" Nti-AddaeState of Kansas
Liting SuCenter for Financial Stability
2016 
Saleh AlodayniCollege of Business Administration of King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Davut AyanTurkish Military Academy
Soumya BhaduryNational Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India
Rachel ChildersUniversity of Bowling Green
Taufiq Dawood

Syiah Kuala University, Darussalam- Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Shangwen HuangWalmart
Daria MilakhinaState of Kansas
Zachary RaffUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout
Biyan TangWabash College
Alexander TeneyMoody's Analytics
Oguz TumturkOrdu University, Turkey
Sijun YuFirst Tennessee Bank
2015 
Jing FuNational Association of Home Builders
Eric HoffmannRhodes College
Andrew KeinsleyWeber State
Erhan OrucKocaeli University
Toshiyuki WakanaKansas Department of Revenue
Boniface YembaClarion University
2014 
Julia BrandesUniversity of Redlands
Anne-Christine BarthelRandolph College
Febrio KacaribuBaylor University, Waco, TX, USA
Yusufu KamaraBaker University SPGS
Huy NguyenUS Small Business Administration, Washington DC
Andrew "Lee" SmithKansas City Federal Reserve
Mingming ZhengBank of America
2013 
Ryadh AlkhareifSaudi Arabia Monetary Agency
2020: Saudi Finance Ministry, Deputy Minister for International Affairs
Salah AlsayaarySaudi Arabian Monetary Agency
Kablan AlkahtaniSaudi Central Bank
Peng ChenJinan University, Guangzhou, China
Ibrahima DialloCheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Taniya GhoshIndira Ghandi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India
Jia LiuAmerican Institute for Economic Research, MA, USA
Josephine LugovskyyBenedictine College, Atchison, KS, USA

Oleksandr Lugovskyy

Simpson College, Indianola, IA, USA

Ryan MattsonRhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA
2012 
Hajar AghababaInstitute for Policy and Social Research
Lili ChenLaifer Capital
Isaac KanyamaUniversity of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Han LiWalmart Home Office, Bentonville, AR, USA
Andrew MonacoColgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA