PhD Student Research

Doctoral Students in TOPS

The doctoral students in Tech, Ops & Stats are involved with research on many topics and at many levels. The topics include basic research as well as work in applications directly relevant to contemporary business issues. Please click on the PhD Student Research tabs to the top to meet the students and see the projects in which they are involved.
 

Information Systems Doctoral Students

 

 StudentJoined
Connor Douglas

Connor Douglas

2022

 

Zhijie (Roy) Gao

2025

Haoyun Hong

Haoyun Hong

2025

Hyesoo Lee

Hyesoo Lee

2023

Headshot of Ilias Triantafyllopoulos

Ilias Triantafyllopoulos

2024
 

Saketh Varma

2025

Catherine Wu

Catherine Wu

2024
Jingyi Yang

Jingyi (Joyce) Yang

2022

Baotong Zhang

Baotong Zhang

2023

Lining Zhang

Lining Zhang

2023


Information Systems Graduates in Academia and Industry

GraduateYearAcademia/Industry
Rui Sun2026 
Eunsol Cho2026 
Rubing Li2026University of Texas, Austin
Peiyan (Pearl) Yu2025University of Georgia
Margarita Boyarskaya2024JP Morgan AI Research Lab
Pan Li2023Georgia Institute of Technology
Prasanna Parasurama2023Emory University
Chenshuo Sun2022National University of Singapore
Nicholas Garcia2022National University of Singapore
Semi Min2022University of Minnesota
Carlos Fernandez2021HKUST Business School
Katherine Hoffman Pham2021UN Global Pulse
Sarah Lebovitz2020University of Virginia
Apostolos Filippas2018Stevens Institute of Technology
Panagiotis Adamopoulos2016University of Minnesota
Vilma Todri2016Emory University
Tingting Nian2015UC Irvine
Evan Sadler2015Harvard University
Marios Kokkodis2015Boston College
Jason Chan2014University of Minnesota
Lauren Rhue2014Wake Forest University
Sean Taylor2014Facebook
Xiaohan Zhang2013Integral Ad Science
Jing Wang2013HKUST
Nikolay Archak2012TBD
Beibei Li2012Carnegie Mellon
Ning Su2011University of Western Ontario
Manuel Arriaga2010University of Cambridge, UK
Akhmed Umyarov2010University of Minnesota
Mingdi Xin2010University of British Columbia
Rong Zheng2009HKUST
Caryn Conley2008Florida Atlantic University
Tianyi Jiang2008AvePoint, Inc.
Gal Oestreicher-Singer2008Tel-Aviv University
Ke-Wei Huang2007National University of Singapore
Zhong Wen2007Tsinghua University, Beijing
Sameer Bajaj2006NJIT
Shawndra Hill2006The Wharton School, U Penn
Miguel Angel Campo Rembado2006Disney
Operations Management Doctoral Students

 

 StudentJoined
 

Gustavo Souza Grivol

2021
Headshot of Nipun Thakurele

Nipun Thakurele

2021
Headshot of Xiaoyu Fan

Xiaoyu Fan

2022
 

Zijian Liu

2022
Headshot of Alex Akira Okuno

Alex Akira Okuno

2023
Headshot of Jingyuan (Sharon) Wang

Jingyuan (Sharon) Wang

2023

Headshot of Jessica Shi

Jessica Shi

2024
Headshot of Yunfan Zhang

Yunfan Zhang

2024

 

Ziyu Chi

2025

 

Xiyu Zhang

2026

 



Operations Management Graduates in Academia and Industry

 

GraduateYearAcademia/Industry
Alyssa Xiaole Liu2026Rutgers University
Xinyu Zhang2026Uber
Sandeep Chitla

2025

Cornell University
Sen Yang

2025

 
Shixin Wang

2021 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Dmitry Mitrofanov

2020

Boston College
Jian (Kevin) Jiao

2019

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Tarek Abdallah

2017

Northwestern University
Xuan Wang2016Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jigar Patel2014Montclair State University
Christos Zacharias2014University of Miami
Navaporn Surasvadi2014 
Xi Wang2014 
Xing Hu2011HKU Business School
Nikolay Osadchiy2010Emory University
Dana Popescu2008INSEAD
Andrey Torzhkov2008Siemens Corporate Research
Anshul Sheopuri2007Google
Vladimir Krasik2007Revolut
Ying-Ju Chen2007HKUST
Dorothee Honhon2006University of Texas, Austin
Çağrı Haksöz2004Sabanci University, Turkey

 

Statistics Doctoral Students
 StudentJoined
Qin Wen
Qin Wen2022
Jiayu Li

Jiayu Li

2023
 

Mingyu Liu

2023
 

Xin Wen

2024
Headshot of Yichi Zhang

Yichi Zhang

2025

 

Haosong Zhang

2026

 


Recent Statistics Graduates in Academia and Industry

GraduateYearAcademia/Industry
Yufeng Ding2008Moody's Investors Service
Weijian Liang2008 
Yi Wang2008 
Rebecca Sela2010J.P. Morgan Chase
Jun Liu2011 
Vladimir Kovtun2013Yeshiva University
Cheryl Flynn2014 
Sen Tian2020 
Ningshan Zhang2020Hudson River Trading
Yichen Zhang2020Purdue University 
Wenbo Jing

2025

 

PhD student news:

TOPS Doctoral Alumns win awards at the 2016 International Conference on Information Systems: 
  • Sean Taylor (NYU PhD 2014) won Best Paper in the “Economics and Value of IS” track at ICIS 2016 together with Daniel Rock (MIT) and Sinan Aral (MIT) for the paper “Identification of Peer Effects in Networked Panel Data”
  • Marios Kokkodis (NYU PhD 2015) was nominated for the Best Theory Paper award together with Theodoros Lappas  (Stevens Inst. Of Technology) for the paper “Realizing the Activation Potential of Online Communities”
  • Jason Chan (NYU PhD 2014) won Best Associate Editor award