## PhD Student Research [ Overview▾ ](#) [ Information Systems▾ ](#) [ Operations Management▾ ](#) [ Statistics▾ ](#) 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 ![Eunsol Cho](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/cho_eunsol.jpg.webp?itok=1b1jD1F9) [Eunsol Cho](https://app.getsphere.com/eunsol-cho) 2020 ![Connor Douglas](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/douglas_connor.jpg.webp?itok=iquUrsXh) [Connor Douglas](https://connordouglas10.github.io/) 2022 Zhijie (Roy) Gao 2025 Haoyun Hong 2025 ![Hyesoo Lee](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/lee_hyesoo.jpg.webp?itok=yTGRYIjV) [Hyesoo Lee](https://roxaneamethy4.wixsite.com/mysite) 2023 ![Rubing Li](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-10/rubing_headshot.jpg.webp?itok=7wjbM6hd) [Rubing Li](https://rubingli123.github.io/) 2020 ![Rui Sun](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2025-09/sun_rui_1.jpg.webp?itok=-9kgFoFY) Rui Sun 2019 ![Headshot of Ilias Triantafyllopoulos](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-10/1669392385016.jpeg.webp?itok=NAFnlXxQ) Ilias Triantafyllopoulos 2024 ![Nnenna Umelloh](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-11/2.5_1.png.webp?itok=RaRVUnTf) Nnenna Umelloh 2024 Saketh Varma 2025 Catherine Wu 2024 ![Jingyi Yang](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/jingyi_yang.jpg.webp?itok=YMmhO4KK) [Jingyi (Joyce) Yang](https://misstiny.github.io/) 2022 ![Baotong Zhang](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/zhang_baotong.jpg.webp?itok=l6qeu9hP) Baotong Zhang 2023 ![Lining Zhang](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-10/img_8245.jpg.webp?itok=K5VPyPeU) Lining Zhang 2023 **Information Systems Graduates in Academia and Industry** GraduateYearAcademia/IndustryPeiyan (Pearl) Yu2025University of GeorgiaMargarita Boyarskaya2024JP Morgan AI Research LabPan Li2023Georgia Institute of TechnologyPrasanna Parasurama2023Emory UniversityChenshuo Sun2022National University of SingaporeNicholas Garcia2022National University of SingaporeSemi Min2022University of MinnesotaCarlos Fernandez2021HKUST Business SchoolKatherine Hoffman Pham2021UN Global Pulse[Sarah Lebovitz](https://sites.google.com/stern.nyu.edu/sarah-lebovitz/home)2020University of Virginia[Apostolos Filippas](http://people.stern.nyu.edu/afilippa/)2018Stevens Institute of TechnologyPanagiotis Adamopoulos2016University of MinnesotaVilma Todri2016Emory UniversityTingting Nian2015UC IrvineEvan Sadler2015Harvard UniversityMarios Kokkodis2015Boston CollegeJason Chan2014University of MinnesotaLauren Rhue2014Wake Forest UniversitySean Taylor2014FacebookXiaohan Zhang2013Integral Ad Science[Jing Wang](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jwang5/)2013HKUSTNikolay Archak2012TBDBeibei Li2012Carnegie Mellon[Ning Su](http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/Ning_Su.htm)2011University of Western Ontario[Manuel Arriaga](http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/faculty/arriagam.html)2010University of Cambridge, UK[Akhmed Umyarov](http://www.csom.umn.edu/faculty-research/faculty.aspx?x500=aumyarov)2010University of Minnesota[Mingdi Xin](http://www.csom.umn.edu/faculty-research/faculty.aspx?x500=aumyarov)2010University of British Columbia[Rong Zheng](http://www.bm.ust.hk/isom/staff/rzheng.html)2009HKUST[Caryn Conley](hhttp://business.fau.edu/index.php?src=directory&view=profile2&submenu=faculty_and_staff&refno=659&srctype=profile2_detail)2008Florida Atlantic University[Tianyi Jiang](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tjiang/)2008AvePoint, Inc.[Gal Oestreicher-Singer](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~goestrei/)2008Tel-Aviv University[Ke-Wei Huang](http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/is/bio/huangkw.html)2007National University of Singapore[Zhong Wen](http://cn.linkedin.com/pub/zhong-wen/16/738/b32)2007Tsinghua University, BeijingSameer Bajaj2006NJIT[Shawndra Hill](http://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/people/faculty.cfm?id=33)2006The Wharton School, U Penn[Miguel Angel Campo Rembado](http://www.linkedin.com/pub/miguel-angel-campo-rembado/22/888/831)2006Disney Operations Management Doctoral Students StudentJoined Sandeep Chitla 2019 Xiaoyu Fan 2022 Zijian Liu 2022 Xiaole (Alyssa) Liu 2020 Alex Akira Okuno 2023 Gustavo Souza Grivol 2021 Nipun Thakurele 2021 Jingyuan (Sharon) Wang 2023 Sen Yang 2018 Xinyu Zhang 2020 --- **Operations Management Graduates in Academia and Industry** GraduateYearAcademia/Industry[Çağrı Haksöz](http://som.sabanciuniv.edu/sudirectorystaffdetay/1351)2004Sabanci University, Turkey[Dorothee Honhon](http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Dorothee.Honhon/Welcome.html)2006University of Texas at Austin[Ying-Ju Chen](http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~chen/)2007University of California, BerkeleyVladimir Krasik2007Lehman Brothers[Anshul Sheopuri](https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-sheopuri)2007IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterAndrey Torzhkov2008Siemens Corporate Research[Dana Popescu](http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/dpopescu/)2008INSEAD[Nikolay Osadchiy](http://www.goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/NikolayOsadchiy/index.html)2010Emory University[Xing Hu](https://www3.lcb.uoregon.edu/profile/profile.html?id=1146&format=full)2011University of OregonXi Wang2013 Navaporn Surasvadi2014 Christos Zacharias2014University of Miami[Jigar Patel](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~jpatel2)2014Montclair State University[Xuan Wang](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xwang3/index.html)2016The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology[Tarek Abdallah](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~tabdalla/)2017Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Jian (Kevin) Jiao2019Financial Industry Regulatory AuthorityDmitry Mitrofanov2020Boston College Shixin Wang2021The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School Statistics Doctoral Students StudentJoined ![Wenbo Jing](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/jing_wenbo.jpg.webp?itok=wHRUaV-B) Wenbo Jing 2020 ![Jiayu Li](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/li_jiayu.jpg.webp?itok=QYrlyXCZ) Jiayu Li 2023 ![Mingyu Liu](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/blank-1024x1024_1.jpg.webp?itok=rWcx5k8P) Mingyu Liu 2023 ![Qin Wen](/sites/default/files/styles/small_230px_wide/public/2024-05/wen_qin.jpg.webp?itok=owab-_AG) Qin Wen 2022 --- **Recent Statistics Graduates in Academia and Industry** GraduateYearAcademia/IndustryYufeng Ding2008Moody's Investors ServiceWeijian Liang2008 Yi Wang2008 Rebecca Sela2010J.P. Morgan ChaseJun Liu2011 Vladimir Kovtun2013Yeshiva UniversityCheryl Flynn2014 Sen Tian2020 Ningshan Zhang2020Hudson River TradingYichen Zhang2020Purdue University ## 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