PhD Students

1st reader, co-chair or main advisor (first/current job, BU=Boston University):

René Garcia (PhD, 1992, Princeton): Université de Montréal.
Serena Ng (PhD, 1993, Princeton): Université de Montréal / Columbia University.
Timothy J. Volgelsang (PhD, 1993, Princeton): Cornell / Michigan State University.
Cosme Vodounou (PhD, 1996, Université de Montréal): INSEA (Benin) / Afristat.
Gabriel Rodriguéz (PhD, 1999, Université de Montréal): U. d’Ottawa / PUCP-Peru.
Xiaokang Zhu (PhD, 2001, BU): Cornerstone Research / Longqi Scientific Investment.
Zhongjun Qu (PhD, 2005, BU): University of Illinois at UC / Boston University. “Honorable mention”, 2006 Arnold Zellner Thesis Award.
Tomoyoshi Yabu (PhD, 2006, BU): Bank of Japan / Keio University
Ai Deng (PhD, 2006, BU): Bates and White LLC / NERA Economic Consulting.
Tatsuma Wada (PhD, 2006, BU): Wayne State University / Keio University.
Mohitosh Kejriwal (PhD, 2007, BU): Purdue University.
Dukpa Kim (PhD, 2007, BU): University of Virginia / Korea University.
Jing Zhou (PhD, 2008, BU): Black Rock / Seeking Sense Investment Management.
Yohei Yamamoto (PhD, 2009, BU): University of Alberta / Hitotsubashi University.
Yunpeng Zhang (PhD, 2009, BU): Black & Veatch, EMS/ State Street.
Tatsushi Oka (PhD, 2010, BU): National University of Singapore / Keio University (Japan).
Linxia Ren (PhD, 2011, BU): SAS / Facebook.
Adam McCloskey (PhD, 2011, BU): Brown University/ U. of Colorado at Boulder.
Sungju Chun (PhD, 2012, BU): Korea Insurance Research Institute / Gachon U. (Korea).
Wendong Shi (PhD, 2013, BU): Renmin University.
Ye Li (PhD, 2013, BU): Moody’s Analytics / Fanny Mae.
Jiawen Xu (PhD, 2013, BU): Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Seong Yeon Chang (PhD, 2014, BU): Xiamen University (China)/ Soongsil University (Korea).
Jie Hou (PhD, 2014, BU): Capital University of Economics and Business (China).
Aparna Dutta (PhD, 2015, BU): Bates and White LLC.
Mingli Chen (PhD, 2015, BU): The University of Warwick. “Honorable mention”, 2017 Arnold Zellner Thesis Award.
Francsico Estrada (PhD, 2015, Vrije Universiteit, Environmental Economics): ITAM.
Alessandro Casini (PhD, 2019, BU), Tor Vergata (Italy). “Honorable mention”, 2020 Arnold Zellner Thesis Award.
Emilio Gonzalez Coya Sandoval (PhD, 2023, BU), Morgan Stanley.

Member of the thesis committee (2nd or 3rd reader):

Mau-Ting Lin (PhD, 2003, BU); National University of Singapore.
Marco Morales (PhD, 2007, BU): Universidad Diego Portales.
Rodrigo Alfaro (PhD, 2008, BU): Banco Central de Chile.
Yang K. Lu (PhD, 2009, BU): Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Shinsuke Ikeda (Ph.D, 2010, BU): Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
Denis Tkachenko (PhD, 2012, BU): National University of Singapore.
Tszkin Julian Chan (PhD, 2015, BU): Bates and White LLC.
Fan Zhuo (PhD, 2016, BU): Amazon.
François Guay (PhD, 2016, BU): Cornerstone Research, Boston/ Questrom Business School (BU).
Yuan Tian (PhD, 2017, BU): Alibaba (China).
Andrés Sagner (PhD, 2018, BU): Central Bank of Chile.
Yi Zhang (PhD, 2018, BU): Jinan University, China.
Junwen Lu (PhD, 2019, BU); Arbella Insurance, USA.
Guang Zhang (PhD, 2021,BU): Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China.
Taosong Deng (PhD, 2021): Hunan University, China.
Anlong Qin (PhD, 2022, BU): International Business School at Zhejiang Gongshang University, China.

External Member of the Dissertation Committee:

Regina Celia Cati (PhD, 1995, USP, Brazil): USP / BU.
Milton Barossi Filho (PhD, 1997, USP, Brazil): USP.
Ana Gómez Loscos (PhD, 2010, Universidad de Zaragoza): Banco de Espana.