# Recent Finance Faculty Placements

Stern's Finance department has one of the top PhD placement records in the country. The following is a list of where PhD graduates supervised by our faculty members (as chair or co-chair of the PhD committee) have taken faculty positions.

| \| \|\| \| **2017** \| \| Vadim Elenev \| Johns Hopkins University \| \| Kate Waldock \| Georgetown University \| \| Davide Tomio \| University of Virginia \| \| Aaditya Iyer \| AQR Capital \| \|  \| \| \| **2016** \| \| Jim Albertus \| Carnegie Mellon University \| \| Matteo Crosignani \| Federal Reserve Board of Governors \| \|  \| \| **2015** \| \| Bernard Herskovic \| University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) \| \| Xuyang Ma \| University of Waterloo \| \| Emil Siriwardane \| Harvard Business School (HBS) \| \| Michael Smolyansky \| Federal Reserve Board of Governors \| \|  \| \| \| **2014** \| \| Diane Pierret \| HEC Lausanne \| \| Stoyan Stoyanov \| Berkeley Research Group, LLC \| \| Shaojun Zhang \| Hong Kong University \| \|  \| \| **2013** \| \| Alex Chinco \| University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign \| \| Gabriela Coiculescu \| Yeshiva University \| \| Hanh Le \| University of Illinois at Chicago \| \| Jason Levine \| Congressional Budget Office \| \| Oliver Randall \| Emory University \| \| Farzad Saidi \| Judge Business School, University of Cambridge \| \| Erin Smith \| University of Rochester \| \|  \| \| **2012** \| \| Justin Birru \| Ohio State University \| \| Esben Hedegaard \| Arizona State University \| \| Rustom Irani \| University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign \| \| Or Shachar \| Federal Reserve Bank of New York \| \| Michelle Zemel \| Pomona College \| \|  \| \| **2011** \| \| Christian Brownlees \| Universitat Pompeu Fabra \| \| Farhang Farazmand \| Cornerstone Research \| \| Xavier Giroud \| MIT Sloan \| \| Joan Farre Mensa \| HBS Entrepreneurship \| \| Andre de Souza \| Fordham University \| \|  \| \| **2010** \| \| Jaewon Choi \| Penn State University \| \| Robert Tumarkin \| Australian School of Business \| \| Bryan Kelly \| University of Chicago \| \|  \| \| **2009** \| \| Lorenzo Naranjo \| ESSEC \| \| Haejin Chung \| Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology \| \| Yuanzhi Li \| Temple University \| \| Rik Sen \| Hong Kong University of Science and Technology \| \|  \| \| **2008** \| \| Anh Le \| UNC Chapel Hill \| \|  \| \| **2007** \| \| Zheng Sun \| UC Irvine \| \| Jack Favilukis \| London School of Economics \| \| Nikolay Halov \| UC San Diego \| \|  \| \| **2006** \| \| Walter Boudry \| University of North Carolina \| \| Prachi Deuskar \| University of Illinois \| \| Victoria Ivashina \| Harvard Business School \| \| Jonathan Spitzer \| University of Virginia \| \|  \| \| **2005** \| \| Olesya Grishchenko \| Penn State \| \| Antonios Sangvinatsos \| University of Southern California \| \| Sinan Tan \| Fordham University \| \|  \| \| **2004** \| \| Vinay Nair \| Wharton \| \| Lei Yu \| Notre Dame \| \|  \| \| **2003** \| \| Sreedhar Bharath \| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor \| \| Paolo Pasquariello \| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor \| \| Jayanthi Sunder \| Cornell University \| \|  \| \| **2002** \| \| Martijn Cremers \| Yale University \| \| Yiming Qian \| University of Iowa \| \| Charu G. Raheja \| Vanderbilt University \| \| David Weinbaum \| Cornell University \| |
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